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Helmi Hakim

The Avengers and Our Duty As Financial Planners In Singapore…

May 11, 2012 by Helmi Hakim
How many of you have watched this latest movie, “The Avengers”? For every 10 of you reading this blog post, I can guarantee at least 5-6 of you have watched this movie, because it is soooo popular… My facebook feeds are flooded with people “checking in” the cinema to watch the movie or filled with [...]

in Categories: Business

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Muslims In Singapore Can Now Use Revocable Nomination For Their Insurance Policies….

March 25, 2012 by Helmi Hakim
Alhamdulillah…. MUIS has issued a FATWA allowing Muslims to use revocable nomination for their insurance policies. (Myself and my client interviewed by BERITASuria, Malay news channel, few days ago. Click the link to view video) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. This new fatwa, is a fatwa that has been much welcome by the Muslim community who owns  insurance policies in [...]

in Categories: Insurance

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Singapore Civil Servants, Have You Get Your Medical Insurance?

February 27, 2012 by Helmi Hakim
These few weeks, I am very busy, with the army camp talk, promoting medical insurance to the army soldiers. This is in view of the special partnership arranged between the insurance cooperative, I am working with and Singapore Armed Forces. There are basically 2 broad categories of schemes for the civil servants. Non MSO and [...]

in Categories: Insurance

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Financial Consultant, Helmi Hakim’s Diversification Strategy To Invest In Funds…

February 13, 2012 by Helmi Hakim
Past few days, there is a problem with my server, and my site was brought down….. headache I emailed the server technicians in US, and was told one of my old sites (I host a few websites with them), was unsafe, and because of that, they have to bring down all my sites, including http://www.helmihakim.com [...]

in Categories: Uncategorized

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Should You Take Housing Loan or Pay Your HDB House In Full If You Got The Money?

July 5, 2009 by Helmi Hakim
If you recently read my blog, I spoke of my aspirations to accumulate my money as soon as possible, so that when I get married in 4 years time, I can pay my 4 room HDB house, in full, IMMEDIATELY. (clearing the biggest loan, one can have in a lifetime) My rationale is that, when [...]

in Categories: Featured, Personal Finance

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You Invest In Funds & Now Losing Money? What Should You Do?

March 17, 2009 by Helmi Hakim
In this turmoil, I met a number of people in roadshows saying that they have been “burnt” by their investments. Practically, they have lose money in shares, lose money in funds, lose money in forex, lose money in anywhere….practically all losing money in their INVESTMENTS. Well, I got 2 news, if you belong to the [...]

in Categories: Investing

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Savings’ Objectives If You Are In Your Early 20’s…

March 8, 2009 by Helmi Hakim
As you know, in my profession as a financial associate, I get to do financial planning for a lot of people. It is a special privilege for me, as directly or indirectly, I get to see EXPLICITLY on how the rich and the poor managed their finance. I realised, its not really how much you [...]

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What Is Assets Allocation All About?

October 30, 2008 by Helmi Hakim
By: Helmi Hakim It is COMMON in the finance world for us to hear these jargons like “assets allocation“, “rebalancing” etc2… In this post, I will like to share with you 2 COMMON approaches, financial planners use to allocate assets of our clients efficiently and effectively. 1) Strategic Assets Allocation Example: If my client get [...]

in Categories: Investing, Personal Finance

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Parkinson’s Law In Finance

March 24, 2008 by Helmi Hakim
By: Helmi Hakim There is this theory known as “Parkinson’s Law“. In the context of finance, it means “the more you EARN, the more you will SPEND“. Many of us were illusioned with this myth, “If this person is a director of a company, this person is a big shot, this person is running his [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

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Investment That Can Give ROI of More Than 1000%

March 19, 2008 by Helmi Hakim
By: Helmi Hakim In my daily pursuit as a financial associate, I met a lot of people. People with different characters, different goals, different needs and different line of thinking. The beauty of it is that I get a lot of exposure and learning experience from meeting these people. Let me share with you an [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

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