Business Structures

[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, …

[ad_1]   Nowadays, seeing a campaign poster out on the streets is no longer surprising. Many candidates have been boosting their posts and videos online to raise awareness, as a way of saying, hey, I’m running for a government position—again!   The culture of “popular voting” is now in full …

[ad_1]     It has been a challenging year for the Philippine stock market as the PSE Index succumbed to massive correction after registering a record high at the start of the year.   Rising interest rates brought about by increase in inflation rates this year caused the PSE Index …

[ad_1]   Real estate in the Philippines has remained one of the brighter spots for investors. While pooled funds struggle to earn annual returns that beat inflation and stocks remain on a downtrend, properties have generally continued to appreciate year after year.   And data from online real estate portal …

[ad_1]   Oliver James Matias was never exemplary academically. In fact, he had to finish his five-year engineering degree in six years. “I was the pasaway type,” he admitted in an interview with Entrepreneur Philippines. “I had a lot of outside influences that distracted me in college.”   But more than a decade …