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We are shortly launching a finance portal on Thaivisa. We already have Baht exchange rates, gold prices both In Baht and in USD, SET index and Thailand related financial news lined up. Most will be Live feeds with or without a slight delay.

What type of additional content would you like to have on the new financial portal?

What type of economical indicators, what type of articles, what type of features?

Any favourite writers out there we should contact for additional content?

Looking forward to hear your input!

Cheers

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A huge quantity of content would be possible.

Eg. A house price index

Tax implications for foreign pensions

An ETF guide. ETF's are the easiest way for non finance professionals to invest in world markets. ETF's are available giving exposure to individual nation stock markets.

Industry sectors i.e. technology,health sectors, biotechnology.

Currency ETF's

Fixed Interest ETF's i.e. Bond markets.

Commodity ETF's. i.e. Oil,Gold, Wheat, Rice etc.

Morningstar gives a list of ETF's ranked on size, risk and management fee.

The beauty of them is that you control your own investment portfolio without having to do exhaustive research on individual stocks, sectors...

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Most news paper financial sections have a writer devoted to stock tips...A tipster would be an idea...To see one in action Google ken foster at Forbes. He is a self made billionaire with an excellent monthly stock tip column

A blogger to discuss the world situation such as how political and central bank policy will affect investments..Anatole Kaletsky at Reuters would be a good example on how to anticipate market movements. How to deal with a debt ceiling standoff for example...

Most newspapers have a writer devoted to giving advice to readers specific financial questions...e.g To remortgage to start up a business, financial implications of a divorce, illness,a new baby and so on...

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A bank league table...based on interest, customer service, flexibility and so on..

An insurance company league table based on cost, transparency and ease of pay out..

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A financial jargon decoder...financial jargon translated into clear and plain English....

A section explaining basic economics and peoples questions...why the world the way it is..

A financial demystifier... A blog or such to demonstrate that the reader himself is able to make his own decisions and how the Internet enables him to do so...

A Section to explain risk...one of the most misunderstood economic concepts..show people how to assess the real risk of their investment decisions...

Maybe a budgeting advisory section??

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Most news paper financial sections have a writer devoted to stock tips...A tipster would be an idea...To see one in action Google ken foster at Forbes. He is a self made billionaire with an excellent monthly stock tip column

A blogger to discuss the world situation such as how political and central bank policy will affect investments..Anatole Kaletsky at Reuters would be a good example on how to anticipate market movements. How to deal with a debt ceiling standoff for example...

Most newspapers have a writer devoted to giving advice to readers specific financial questions...e.g To remortgage to start up a business, financial implications of a divorce, illness,a new baby and so on...

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Ken Fisher, you mean, I presume? Good stuff, no doubt.

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Some great ideas. I have problems sorting out branch actions vrs. bank policies. I have had

things done that are in conflict with what the bank says their policy is. Maybe a contact list for

the banks if we are having a localized problem.

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A pinned article on how to spot financial scams in the investment and QROPs sectors and how to check out the qualifications and registration of financial advisors in Thai expat destinations - most of the international expat finance sites have had this for a while now . There would be no need to infringe forum rules by naming names, etc, just sensible general advice.

This may seem basic, but many otherwise intelligent people have lost out, especially recently.

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George,

assuming people ask for a favourite writer, do you contact him & offer him paid work? I ask as I am a professional writer specialising in humorous articles on Thai themes & would like the work.

Here is my take on Loi Kratong.

Loi Krathong - by Mike Bell

Common sense tells us that any jobbing journalist will thoroughly research his topic before putting finger to keyboard. Accordingly I entered the title into Wikipedia and discovered that this famous festival is, in fact a conflation of two celebrations: Yi Peng (ยี่เป็ง) and a festival to celebrate , Phra Mae Khongkha (Thai: พระแม่คงคา). So far, so baffling. The first involves flying incendiary devices over crowded urban developments like Pattaya; the second suggests floating bread rafts across water. Both are designed to humiliate the farang.

Taking the first one second, if you will forgive the Irishism, let me relate my experiences with floating a bread raft. Even for someone as ham-fisted as me, surely nothing could go wrong? Rules for Farang Beginners: 1 Buy raft. 2 Light candle. 3 Place raft on water. 4 Take photo. Simples.

1 You have a choice of materials for your krathong: banana leaves which take a long time to bio-degrade; bread which degrades quickly providing food for the fish and any peckish farang who missed dinner; Styrofoam which hardly ever degrades and can choke the exhausts of jet-ski drivers which is the only good thing to be said for this material.

2 If you are a non-smoker this will require buying a lighter which can disintegrate into a hundred pieces if made in Cambodia. If it is a home-produced lighter it will get very hot, very quickly and cause you to howl with pain in front of your tirac causing huge loss of face and a considerable quantity of skin.

3 On the night of the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar Sod’s Law decrees that there will be an on-shore breeze which will blow out even a German made lighter and drive your raft back into the shallows. After several attempts at re-launch, you will have wet shoes and salt corroded trousers.

4 If by some miracle the float takes to the high seas, do not attempt to take a photo as your hands are slippery with sweat and sea water. Your camera, as you will see, does not float.

The act of floating away the candle raft is symbolic of letting go all one's grudges, anger and defilements, so that one can start life afresh on a better foot. (Dropping your camera in salt water may negate this.) People will also cut their fingernails and hair and add them to the raft as a symbol of letting go of the bad parts of oneself. (This is difficult to do holding a lighter in calf deep water.) Many Thais believe that floating a raft will bring good luck (but only if you own a Styrofoam camera.)

From Wikipedia: ‘ A multitude of Lanna-style sky lanterns (khom loi (Thai: โคมลอย), literally: "floating lanterns") are launched into the air where they resemble large flocks of giant fluorescent jellyfish gracefully floating by through the sky.’ Quite apart from the horrible image of being dive-bombed by jellyfish, I would argue that jellyfish do NOT travel in sheep-like flocks but fish-like shoals. (Isn’t jelly formed in moulds?)

These jelly fish like lanterns (khom loi) are made from a thin fabric, such as rice paper, to which a candle or fuel cell is attached. When the fuel cell is lit, the resulting hot air which is trapped inside the lantern creates enough lift for the khom loi to float up in to the sky and thence on to the many wooden roofed buildings hereabouts.

This is true in theory but the farang practice leaves much to be desired. For lighting the fuel cell see above. No where does it say that the thin fabric is flammable! Without a word of a lie, mine burst into flame as if filled with hydrogen like the ill-fated Hindenburgh. There is something mildly humiliating about losing both eyebrows and a good portion of my hairline, being rolled in the sand and dowsed with seawater whilst all about you, eight year old Thais launch their sky lanterns without any of the afore mentioned fuss or drama.

The bottom line is Farangs should not play with fire in Thailand.

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Need to be a bit careful about Thai SEC regulations requiring licenses to give investment advice. This requires a pass at CFA level 1 or CISA level 1 (the Thai equivalent), a year's qualifying experience as an assistant with a licensed company, then passing an exam administered by the SEC on a text book that is only in Thai at this stage, as well as being employed by a licensed company which must apply as clean company before starting up operations. Few foreigners have this licensing. Note that all the stock tip columns in the Thai press are all written by licensed analysts employed by securities comanies.

I hope it will not become a forum for unlicensed expat IFAs to promote their services and threaten defamation suits to anyone who disagrees with them.

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A bank league table...based on interest, customer service, flexibility and so on..

An insurance company league table based on cost, transparency and ease of pay out..

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A guide to health insurance for expats living in Thailand would be great. Many of us want/need health insurance but don't know whether to go with BUPA -- or whoever else.

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Having been shocked at the amount of bureaucracy and blatant diversionary tactics involved with making a claim for medical treatment from my 'bona-fide' medical insurance company, I'd really like to see reports and first hand experiences from people dealing with medical insurance companies, paying particular close attention to:

- relative cost of plans across various companies

- relative cost of plans within companies

- ratios of successful to unsuccessful claims

- amount of time awaiting reimbursement

- number and complexity of required forms to make claims

- number and complexity of required forms to apply for pre-approval

- terms and conditions regarding pre-existing conditions

- pinpointing discrepancies between what people are sold, and what they think they have been sold

In addition, there is a need to point out certain aspects of applying for insurance - e.g. few brokers seem to offer the choice of a moratorium at point of purchase. This is an important decision that I, for one, was never given the opportunity to make.

My impression is that even the 'top providers' play far from fair when push comes to shove, and I see a genuine need for some public naming and shaming...

I have already written one article with my initial impressions of how I was treated when I needed to claim - see http://davedub.co.uk/davedub/wordpress/william-russell-withhold-treatment/.

I am in the process of researching and writing a far more detailed followup article now.

- Davedub

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