Leodini’s Magical Creations

Invest in yourself
Take a vacation, bring your family to the park, enjoy life.
Accumulating money can take a long time. As one author had put it, it’s like gaining weight; it takes years of eating and lounging around on the lazy chair to become fat.

Once an investor has piled up enough profits and acquired some degree of sophistication and confidence, he may now proceed to place his money on real property investments like coins, antiques, jewelry.

The Money Market
Money market is described as a medium in business through which the trading of short-term credit instruments are done by financial intermediaries or dealers. The investor wishing to put his money in the money market can choose from three general types of instruments-namely, government securities (T-bills), bank’s or dealer’s own papers, or commercial [...]

What will happen to you and your family if one of these things happens: you get sick and are hospitalized; you meet an accident and lose your legs; your house burns down; or you die?
If you dread the answer, the chances are you haven’t “covered the bases” yet for such eventuality.

Though a house and lot is not a liquid investment, buying one is still one of the best investments a family person can make today. (Bestselling author Robert Kiyosaki may not agree with this. Check his take on the subject in his chart-busting book Rich Dad, Poor Dad.) Most people buy homes to live in, [...]

No one can go around pros­pecting for investment unless he has surplus money to invest.
To generate investable funds, a family subsisting on fixed income should be able to stash away a few hundred pesos every month until it has enough savings equivalent to six months of its earnings. Finan­cial experts say this is roughly the [...]

For seasoned investors, investing is like a game—it’s fun and exciting. Above all, it’s profitable.
When one’s investing strategies work smoothly, everything will fall in place like magic. The returns will be lucrative as money rolls in far greater amount than the sweat you break on your brow. However, when things don’t work well, losing your [...]

Biologists can observe metamorphosis in lower life forms such as insects and crustaceans. As a Filipino magician entertaining family audiences, I can produce similar illusion. In fact, it is one of my all-time favorite illusions, and my audiences love its every performance.
In real life, though, transforming an ordinary salaried individual into a savvy investor can [...]

Most of us parents have been preoccupied far too long with making money. It’s a fixation that dates back to our early age. When we were younger, we went to school to learn how to break our backs profitably when we grow old.
And that’s exactly what we do as we mature: we labor from dawn [...]

It’s payday, and you stare horrified at the thin pay enve­lope you receive. In your mind, flash the bills falling due this month: the electric bill, the installment for the TV, your chil­dren’s school fees, the amortization of the house, tennis club dues, and insurance. Add to that your wife’s grocery expenses and the cost [...]