[ad_1]   De La Salle University’s (DLSU) Laguna Campus officially launched the John Gokongwei, Jr. Innovation Center (JGIC). The center, which is named after John Gokongwei, Jr.—DLSU MBA alumnus (MBA ’77), head of the country’s second-largest family-run business, and also the country’s third richest tycoon—has the lofty goal of becoming a major …

[ad_1] The Philippine stock market had a pretty bad 2018.   In fact, a Bloomberg article said that it was the stock market’s worst year since 2008. (And 2008 was a really bad year, considering the world was in the middle of a financial crisis.) It made that claim from …

[ad_1] IMAGE esquiremag.ph   We’re already a few days into 2019, so you’ve probably already read a bunch of articles about how you can be smarter and more responsible with your money for the year. Whether it’s about which stocks performed best last year or money challenges you can do this year, …

[ad_1] IMAGE esquiremag.ph     President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law Republic Act 11165, also known as “An Act Institutionalizing Telecommuting as an Alternative Work Arrangement for Employees in the Private Sector.” The bill was authored by Senator Joel Villanueva.   Aside from promoting a healthy work-life balance for …

[ad_1]     If there is any good that came out from the massive stock market correction last year, it’s the dividend yields of preferred stocks that increased to historic highs.    Preferred stocks, which work like debt and equity at the same time, pay fixed dividends annually, similar to …

[ad_1]   Freelancers and solo entrepreneurs would know—tax payments can suck the fun out of the career you’re building. Aside from living with the possibility that our taxes just go to corrupt officials, the whole process of tax payments itself is a pain. What more if you find yourself drowning …

[ad_1] IMAGE esquiremag.ph   We’re already a few days into 2019, so you’ve probably already read a bunch of articles about how you can be smarter and more responsible with your money for the year. Whether it’s about which stocks performed best last year or money challenges you can do this year, there …

[ad_1] IMAGE esquiremag.ph   The quality of the country’s airports may soon improve as the North Luzon Airport Consortium (NLAC) won the bid for the operations and maintenance of the Clark International Airport.   The Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) awarded the operations and maintenance contract last December to NLAC, …

[ad_1] “The Philippines is a flawed democracy.”   That’s a pretty general statement, and depending on who you ask it’s either an unfair assessment of the government or the understatement of the century.   But for the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), it’s only a category given to the country …

[ad_1] IMAGE Paperwork Philippines Facebook     A creative mind needs an equally creative environment, and interior designer Karen Calalec found the creativity she needed in a co-working space. When she left her job in Singapore to restart her career in the Philippines, she found herself gravitating towards the flexibility, …