THE LONG WAIT IS OVER: REIT IS HERE

Monday, October 19, 2009
Published in:BusinessWorld   Author: Abelardo V. Cortez

Irrational exuberance this is not. Asia’s real estate investment trust sector appears to be making a comeback.

Finance and Its Fancy Lingo

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Published in:cfaphilippines.blogspot.com   Author: Odette Gonzales

There has always been a continuous debate as to whether finance is more properly characterized as an art or as a science. I am not to make a claim but for me, there is something so artistic and fascinating about the world of finance that separates it from undoubtedly scientific fields like Mathematics: its ever extravagant lingo.

Philippines Risks Missing Out on Clean Energy Boom

Monday, February 23, 2009
Published in:Business Week   Author: Dennis Posadas

Falling oil prices have take the urgency out of the renewable energy push—and that will set back both development of a viable market and industry investment

NEVER LET RISK RESTRAIN YOUR POTENTIAL

Monday, February 16, 2009
Published in:BusinessWorld Market Monitor Column   Author: Abelardo V. Cortez

The global economy continues its swan dive. World trade is projected to contract by more than 2% this year, after growing faster than 4% over the past few years. Cross border investments are projected to go down by 5% (against 2007 figures) as commodity prices plunge and consumer demand dries up.

Investing in a time of peril… and other times besides

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Published in:Illustrado Magazine   Author: GERALD BALDIVIA

Here are a couple of FAQs that invariably land on my cocktail saucer at dinner parties nowadays: “When will this awful global recession end, and when can we get back into the market?” Good questions, those. My standard answer to the first question is “who knows?” and to the second I intone: “All the time, folks. All the time.”

No Free Lunch : Why is our economy still growing?

Sunday, February 08, 2009
Published in:Philippine Daily Inquirer   Author: Cielito Habito

IT SURPRISED MANY, INCLUDING government itself, that the economy still posted a respectable aggregate growth rate of 4.5 percent in the last quarter of last year. With the much larger industrialized economies including the US, Japan and Germany already shrinking in recent quarters, it seemed rather unlikely that much smaller economies like ours could continue growing, more so at the rate it did. Singapore, with an aggregate GDP roughly the same as ours but which is shared by only 1/20th as ma More

TIME TO BUY STOCKS AND BONDS

Monday, January 19, 2009
Published in:Published in BusinessWorld Market Monitor Column    Author: Abelardo V. Cortez

America is the epicenter of today’s global financial crisis.  If public confidence and investor optimism have to return to the financial markets, America must continue addressing its current economic downturn. It’s a necessary condition to restore confidence, order, and balance in today’s dysfunctional global financial markets. Barack Obama’s first major  move as US president is to  get the US economy back on track.

Outsourcing: The Philippines vs. China and India

Monday, January 05, 2009
Published in:www.businessweek.com   Author: Dennis Posadas

Filipino software execs say their infrastructure and ties to the U.S. give them an edge over their bigger rivals, but a seasoned talent pool is lacking

Utility giant partners with ethnic groups to deliver message

Sunday, January 04, 2009
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES — Utility giant Southern California Edison (SCE) holds aloft a community ideal within its culturally diverse workforce that could probably work well with the more than 13 million people that it provides power to. 

U.S. gets tougher with human traffickers

Sunday, January 04, 2009
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES — Human trafficking gets a tougher treatment from the U.S. government.  Outgoing president George Bush last week signed into a law a bill that enhances measures to combat human trafficking to the mainland, particularly of women and children.

L.A. signs new gun laws

Sunday, January 04, 2009
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES—Do guns kill or protect?
It is never too late for the government of this city of nearly 4 million people of diverse ethnicities to decide which makes sense.

Lawyer Mom

Sunday, January 04, 2009
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES—Filipinos are not known to disregard conventional wisdom—whether it is ushered by familial faith, fatalist religiosity, or plain practicality.  The inevitable predetermination of life based on whatever that is collectively accepted as the popular norm, comes as a cultural truth or societal reality.

The Philippines cited as one of the top emerging stock markets in Asia

Monday, December 08, 2008
Published in:The Philippine Stock Exchange Website(11/24/2008)   Author: The Philippine Stock Exchange

STOCK MARKET INVESTORS should look at the emerging markets in Asia particularly that of the Philippines, to take advantage of cheaper stock valuations and stronger return on equity investments.

FilAms emerge from wildfires spiritually stronger

Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES —“The firefight is over,” says an information officer with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to some 300 team commanders gathered at the Orange County command center on Tuesday, Nov 18.  “It was like a freight train coming through.  That intensity has ended.”

Same-sex couples vent frustrations in protests

Monday, November 17, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES—California’s 36.5 million predominantly Democrat population has easily settled down with its new President, but one remaining election battle still rages in streets, hallways and congregations: Proposition 8.

Post-poll scorecard: won some, lost some

Monday, November 17, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES—Some won, some lost.  The Filipino scorecard in the November 4, 2008 elections seemed even.  However, after the smoke has settled, what isn’t clear was—did the nearly 4 million-strong Filipino American community vote for winning Democrat Barack Obama or losing Republican John McCain?

Culture, stigma are factors in FilAms’ mental heal

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES — A survey of more than 6,000 South Los Angeles high school students conducted by Loyola Marymount last spring revealed that many are “frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and exhibit symptoms of clinical depression.”

Filipinotown observes Veterans Day

Monday, November 10, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES- Celebration or otherwise, Filipino veterans gathered with kababayans at the Historic Filipinotown on Temple Street here on Saturday, Nov 1, in observance of Veterans Day, an annual American holiday honoring military veterans.

Filipinos in L.A. welcome Obama

Saturday, November 08, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES-"Everybody gets a free drink tonight!" announces the emcee of the Tuesday night open mic at Viento y Agua Café & Gallery at 4th Street in Long Beach.  Everybody, including Jennifer Estrada, 21, a Filipino American CSULB student, knew what the exaltation was all about.  At 8:07 p.m, of Nov 4, it has become undoubtedly clear:  Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, is the nation's 44th president.

SoCal FilAms Swoon to Sarah-mania

Friday, October 10, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

LOS ANGELES- Dennis Tobias, 40, an investment banker in Burbank, triumphantly uncorked a Dom Perignon following the LA Dodgers'three-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs. Jeanne Mann, 34, a paralegal at Huntington Beach, quietly savored her "euphoric elation" coming from a GOP rally by praying the rosary.

Making the American Dream A Priority

Friday, October 03, 2008
Published in:Philippine News   Author: Pasckie Pascua

On a Saturday morning, Myrna Lim effortlessly melds with the supermarket crowd on Mission Street, deep in the womb of Excelsior District, and hands out window signs and fliers. The 52-year old Filipino American of Chinese ancestry is deep in pursuit of an all-consuming vision: To take San Francisco back for families. To be able to do that, she has to take her mission to where it breathes-"up close and personal" with the people.