KRISTEL SILANG
Before working for a financial services company, my impression about learning about investing and money matters was that it’s expensive. I also thought that it would be hard to find other people I could talk to about it aside from my parents because it wasn’t a common topic among my friends and previous officemates. I would browse stock trading seminar fees in Manila and find that they range from P975-4,000 for the basic stock investing seminar that I can attend during weekends and could go up to P7,000-10,000 for one class to learn about technical analysis. The free classes offered by private entities such as the Philippine Stock Exchange and COL Financial are usually held within office hours so employees like myself cannot go there.