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Best Air Miles Credit Card in Malaysia [Updated 2025]

Unlock the secrets of air miles’ cash value and choose the right credit card for your travel needs. Calculate ROI for your air miles redemptions, explore top Malaysian credit cards, and learn how to maximize returns with promotional offers. Don’t miss out on potential savings for your next trip!

Charles Schwab One Debit Card
Credit Cards

Charles Schwab Debit Card: Free ATM Withdrawals Worldwide

Introduction It’s been a while since my last post about travel credit cards. Today, I want to share about an incredibly useful debit card from Charles Schwab that’s available for international customers with a Schwab One Brokerage account. Most of us already have our favorite travel credit cards, but we know not every place accepts

Cheapest Way to Fund IBKR Account
Investment

The Cheapest Way to Fund IBKR Account for Malaysians

Cost Matters in Investing Most people underperform the market average return because they overlooked their cost of investment, and it can hurt your portfolio return especially in the long term, the cost you saved can be invested and compounded. That is why every time when I talk about investing, I often talk about the total

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Global Diversified Irish Domiciled ETFs
Investment

Global Diversified Portfolio with Only Irish Domiciled ETFs

Why Consider Diversify Globally? The global economic power are shifting rapidly, while US has been leading for many decades, we cannot dismiss the possibilities of other countries catching up, for example China GDP growth rate has generally outpaced US for the last two decades. Plus with recent tariff wars started by the Trump administration which

Alliance Card Benefits Slashed
Credit Cards

Alliance Bank Credit Card Benefits Slashed, Still Worth Keeping?

Revision to Alliance Bank Credit Card Benefits Alliance Bank made an announcement on 11th July 2025 regarding to their credit cards, specifically the Visa Platinum and Visa Infinite, so does it still worth keeping these two cards? To answer that we will look at what benefits have been removed and what’s added. No More 8X

TNB New Tariff July 2025
Investment

TNB New Tariff Impact On Solar Users, Are We Getting Scammed?

New Tariff Structure from July 2025 Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) introduced a new tariff structure and claim it is more transparent and fairer to the user, there will be three components in your TNB bill. The energy charge will see a huge jump if you use above 1,500kWh on billing month, so it will either

My Travel Credit Cards - July 2025
Credit Cards

My Travel Credit Cards – July 2025

It’s become a habit for me to organize my wallet to decide which card to use when travelling abroad for maximized rewards and savings, so I thought why not make a post every time I do that, so this post is about me sharing what card I am using on travel based on the card

Retail Mutual Funds Are Stupid For The Average Investors
Investment

Retail Mutual Funds Like Public Mutual Are Stupid

Introduction Last weekend a friend of mine share with me that he made some “good investment” from his “advisor” recommended mutual funds, he has been buying the Public Regional Sector Fund (PRSEC) from Public Mutual every month automatically for more than 10 years, and had made a cumulative profit of 44.46% with this investment. However,

how to choose car insurance in malaysia and road tax
Insurance

How to Buy Car Insurance or Takaful and Renew Road Tax in Malaysia

Introduction My car insurance are expiring this week, as this is the second year of having my first car, I have no prior experience with car insurance products, this post is just me sharing the process of me choosing an insurance. The first year of my car insurance are included when I buy the car,

When Does Investing in New Air Conditioner Make Sense
Investment

When Does Investing in New Air Conditioner Make Sense?

Introduction: Record High on Electrical Bill It’s getting hotter and hotter in Malaysia, the hot weather and humidity make us use air conditioner way more often, and as the consequence, our electricity bill has sky rocketed, and in last month our monthly electrical bill just hit a record high. Keep in mind our house also

UOB One Classic Card Revision
Credit Cards

UOB One Classic Card Increased Spending Requirement for Cashback

Increased Spending Requirement to RM800 Less than a year since I made a review on UOB One Classic card and actually commended it as a great card for many regular spenders, they increased the spending threshold required for useful cashback rate. (Source: Updated Terms for UOB One Card) It went from spending RM500 to unlock

moomoo malaysia honest review
Investment

Moomoo Malaysia: An Honest Review and Bonus Claim Guide

Introduction Moomoo Malaysia is a recently popular stock brokerage in Malaysia, it provide an access to local stock market as well as US stock market. Personally I rarely pay attention to smaller stock brokerage platform, this is because most of the time they can never compete with larger platforms on fees, order execution quality and

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About two weeks before the expiry of the RHB 0% balance transfer campaign, just applied another BT transfer, going to finish up all my quota before the campaign ends.

(P/s: You need to use desktop browser to find the Balance Transfer button in credit card page, I can't find it in app.)

Campaign Details: www.rhbgroup.com/btonline/index.html
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About two weeks before the expiry of the RHB 0% balance transfer campaign, just applied another BT transfer, going to finish up all my quota before the campaign ends.

(P/s: You need to use desktop browser to find the Balance Transfer button in credit card page, I cant find it in app.)

Campaign Details: https://www.rhbgroup.com/btonline/index.htmlImage attachment
Enrich miles conversion bonus campaign on 15 Jul - 17 Jul, dont miss the opportunity if you have a lot of bank points!

Source: https://enrich.malaysiaairlines.com/enrich/promotions/bank-conversion/get-bonus-points.html

Looking for the best cashback credit cards in Malaysia for 2024? Uncover the truth behind misleadingly high rates and specific spending criteria. Find out which cards offer the best returns without the hassle.

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Dive deep into the world of solar panels in Malaysia with our definitive case study. We're not just talking figures; we're dissecting the Net Energy Metering (NEM), weighing up installation costs, and calculating potential savings. Is it a smart investment or a money pit? Join us on this investigative journey to unveil the truth.

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