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Euphoria: Fly into Infinity

August 31,2013, a handful of college students coming from different universities here in Manila, have gathered for the year’s JCFAP Membership Night entitled “ Euphoria: Fly into Infinity” which was held at Prime Upscale Club in Tomas Morato, Quezon City. The attendees went from quiet to out-rageous as they supported the JCFAP’s Finest Candidates. Truly it was an unforgettable night with people bathed in liq-uor in sponsorship of Tanduay Ice and Manila Beer.

Almost 500 attendees, danced the night away and

enjoyed a series of fun and games and given prizes by event sponsors namely Hawk Bag and Mogu-Mogu. The event also includes the search of Mr. and Ms. JCFAP’s Finest 2013 and later was introduced wearing clothes from Ever Bilena, I-WantItPerfect and Careline. The crowd went wild when the candidates took the runway and sashayed their talents to-gether with a question and answer portion.

Euphoria: Fly into JCFAP’s New Financial Literacy National Finance Summit Fun Page

Infinity Chapter Caravan Job Fair, Top Ten

Outstanding Finance

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Lecture Series : Insular Life Edition

JCFAP together with Insular life, presented the Lecture series, at a two-day seminar last August 24 and August 31, 2013. It was held at Insular Life’s Multi-Purpose hall located at Ayala Avenue, Makati City. The lecture series- since it was a two day seminar had also two main different topics that concerned the very epitome of Finance here in the Philippines and that would be; Debt and Equity Investments which had taken part during August 24, 2013 and Philippine Market Updates that transpired last August 31, 2013. The said event had more than 300 participants. It was a seminar that was full of knowledge and entertainment because the participants were active in joining the games and fully en-gaged in answering the speaker’s questions. Mr. Anton Mauri-cio, one of JCFAP’s advisers was also present during the said seminar and gave the participants a brief share of his experi-ences and knowledge in the Field of Finance.

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The Winners of Mr. and Ms. JCFAP’s Finest 2013 Attendees striking a pose after the event

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Nothing Worth Having Ever Comes Easy

Everyone wants to achieve something, something that would make our lives meaningful. Students like us, have so many aspirations we wish to pursue as we move closer to graduation. But have you even started? Have you already taken an action to make it happen? It is important not only to set specific goals but also to have the urge in establishing the right path you should be heading. In your journey towards your ultimate goal, challenges and failures may come across your way that would pull you down and would make you doubt yourself. Sometimes, you try to avoid them but you cannot really escape from them. Do not deny yourself from these experiences because they will make you stronger and wiser in preparation to the real world. “Nothing worth having ever comes easy”, a quotation you may have read from the internet; this tells the readers the importance of hard work, that there is no such a thing as free lunch. It is never an option to strive your hardest in order to succeed in life. There will come a time that you will be facing with choices, choices that would greatly affect your future; thus, leaving you to make sacrifices. If this happens, you must not only consider yourself but also the important people around you. True enough that that passion is what keeps people motivated, but values are what guide them from making life changing decisions. No one can really say the righteousness of your decisions, only you can tell. I encourage you to dream big. If your dreams don’t scare you, then, it means they aren’t big enough. Stop wishing for something to happen start doing them now

Being A Student Leader

Being an officer of JCFAP spice up my senior life. Yes, it is not easy. There are many people who look up to you, there are expectations, hardships,

but believe me, it is definitely worth it. Every task is fulfilling. All of the experiences I had with the organization, all of the persons I met, and all of the events we had are indeed a life learning experiences. This is one of a lifetime experience that only few students are given the opportunity.

Being a Senior Student, at the same time, a servant

leader is never been easy. Academic load of a graduating stu-

dent is so demanding and crucial. You have to comply in every

load, or yet, you won’t graduate on time. That’s what a senior

student always keep in mind. “Comply and Graduate on time”.

But despite those, I believe that life is not purely academics.

Life is not only about going to school for learnings and go

home afterwards. Mostly, learnings could be acquire through

experiences. And one of the experiences you could have is to

serve your fellow youth and be a leader. As what my business

professors would always say, “We are born leaders, we just

have to know how to maximize our full potential”. Short, but

meaningful. We have to go beyond our limits in order to grow

not only as an excellent student, but also as a great leader that

would later contribute in growth of our economy.

For Troubled Hearts

Financial Management is never an easy course. You need to extract more efforts and hard works to achieve the meaning of “success”, but once that you are into it; you’ll love the essence of learning

that will cuddle your innocent mind. More and more, you will sizzle for every details of information because everything is connected, everything must in due process. No shortcuts, no copyrights, no rush, no fade, just pure and concentrated. In four years in college, we can’t afford to have the best title as a finance student, not all the information needed will be absorb by our minds, and not everyone will experience the same learning situations that will meld each other to be a better threshold. Once that you are in finance field, expecta-tions of others are also high, and most likely, it will become one of your tools you will use to be on top and be the best. Just like successful finance personnel, reading and knowing a lot of data and information is not enough. You need to practice what have you learned and put into the context of reality. After schooling, you’ll meet different people that were also from different world. What have you experienced is to-tally different from theirs, but one thing will remain… how you present yourself in the jungle full of different animals in where you need to standout. You are the only one who will struggle for your own life just like a rational man with concrete power of reasoning. “For whatever things were written before were written for our

learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the

Scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).

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Junior Confederation of

Finance Associations-Philippines

Academic Year 2013-2014

Mr. Antonilo Mauricio

Mr. Alexander Gilles, CFA ADVISERS

Lecture Series

Leadership Training Seminar

Quarterly Awards

Top 10 Outstanding Fi

nance Students

Membership Night

Financial Literacy Caravan

Events Management Seminar

Induction Ceremony

Sportsfest Finance Competition

General Meeting

National Finance Summit & Job Fair

Christmas Party

Socio-Civic Activity

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JCFAP participates in Caronia’s

Music Festival 2013

Caronia Philippines together with Bangs, and Tony and Jackey in partnership with Center for Pop and Junior Confedera-tion of Finance- Associations Philippines launched the “Caronia’s Music Festival 2013- The sound of Color”. Last July, as a part of the Music Festival, Caronia Philippines held a contest for all aspiring musicians by the creation of a unique version of their very own “I love Caronia” jingle. As an or-ganization partner, JCFAP assisted Caronia in looking for some competitive musicians all throughout its member universities and college throughout the nation. The contest was applicable for music groups of 2-5 members, 18 years old and above. Bands who were interested to join submitted their video entries showing them performing their own version of the Caronia jingle together with the specified requirements. The bands can change the melody of the said jingle. However it was important to have the original lyrics intact with the cover version. The deadline of the submission of entries via email and Youtube was last Sep-tember 30, 2013. Judges from Caronia, then selected 10 lucky semi-finalist who will compete for the top 5 positions. The procedure of select-ing the top 5 entries will be done through online voting that was available in the Caronia’s Facebook Fan Page. The top 5 who has received the most number of votes has proceeded to the Finale Concert at the Sky dome in SM North Edsa last November 8, 2013.

During the said concert, the Top 5 Bands showcased their own unique version of the Caronia Jingle and an original composition. The said concert was also graced by some of our renowned OPM bands namely; Callalily, Gracenote and Banda ni Kleggy. The said program was also hosted by the beautiful

MYX Vj Ms. Joyce Pring. The grand winner of the said jingle contest was a band representing The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila which were named: “Assets in Demand”. As the winner they got to take home P70,000 worth of cash prize. Congratulations to all the winners, till the next jam session!

Joyce Pring together with Assets in Demand- Grand Winner

Euphoria

Continuation from page 1… The said membership night was hosted by the sexy and fun Jenlain Impat who is a marketing and advertising student at Na-tional University, together with the witty and funny Youtube icon sensation, and also a Financial Management student from Colegio de San Juan De Letran- Lloyd Cadena. We were also surprised by an energetic dance number given by the students of San Beda College Mendiola namely FM crew with the help of choreographer Mr. Rad-ley Santos. The winners of JCFAP’s Finest are as follows: Ewin William Alarcon of De La Salle University Manila and Jhoanna Li of Adamson University as Mr. and Ms. JCFAP 2013, Von Christopher Liu of Adamson University and Crisna Cabrera of University of the East Manila as 2nd Runner up, Kyle Edrosolam and Marianne De Castro as the 3rd Runner up who represented Colegio de San Juan de Le-tran. Other awards include: Marianne De Castro of CSJL as Ms. Careline and Ms. Pinkwater, Alcina Calla Anza of SBC Mendiola as Ms. Ever Bilena, Diane del Rosario of UST as Hawkbag Ambassa-dress and Kyle Edrosolam as Ambassador. Mr. Ewin Alarcon and Ms. Jhoanna Li also bagged the People’s choice award. Congratula-tions to all of the winners!

It was a night of full blast, the attendees almost bathed themselves with free flowing courtesy of liquor drinks. JCFAP would like to extend its heartfelt gratitude to all those who participated. See you next membership night!

JCFAP Finest Candidates struttin’ Hawk Bag

Mr. and Ms. JCFAP’s Finest 2013

"It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you,

and how many generations you keep it for." - Robert Kiyosaki

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My Kind Of Resolution

To celebrate this year end

A famous list is written with dread Filled with anxiety, guilt and hope. Fully expected to end one’s mope

Procrastination, diets and attitude change

Commonly scribbled to end one’s ways Sworn to death-“I’ll do better”

Wondering till we grew slumber.

I’ll stop eating and lose a few pounds I’ll be grateful and loyal like my hound

I’ll be sweet to my professor who’s strict For school requirements to make ends meet.

A great act- befriend my foe. You’ll reap what was sown

Made my soul all tired and weary Glimpsing at the past that seems so heavy

Is it all important? To change one’s habits Or it is only a small part of your promise

Body changes? Money spent? Material pits? Try to be smart, for life is deep and full of bliss

BRAIN– Boosters

Finance has never been an easy subject. It requires critical thinking and strict discipline sine you will be handling different kinds of people who has different needs. It is an applied science consisting of Accountancy and Economics. So, it is a definite pleasure for us finance students if we have something to help us master all of those facts and theories, and we can do that by munching these brain- booster foods.

Nuts- the top favorite, you can actually locate easy spots in Manila for you to see the famous pantawid- gutom food. A bag of this while your reviewing and you can definitely say that” mani lang yan!” in your exams.

Tomatoes- try to binge on tomatoes, they are good for the skin and has an antioxidant called Lycopene which helps in the protection of free radical damage to brain cells that leads to Alz-heimer’s

Eggs- rich in Choline- a type of B nutrient that helps with the transmis-sion of memory and communication of brain cells. Now, you have an excuse to eat those eggs. Wine and Champagne- I know this is not the food category, but study suggests that drinking in moderation might be good for you. Wine has antioxidants that blocks proteins that build brain-destroying plaques. Champagne also helps in improving spatial memory. So, drink up but know your lim-its!

` Avocado- Rich in monounsaturated fat which is a contributor of healthy blood flow in the brain. Can also prevent lower blood pressure that can reduce the risks of hypertension and stroke. Hmm.who’s up for a Guaca-

mole? Salmon- Omega 3- Fatty acids are somehow a love-at-first-sight for our brains because it improves cognitive function. Peo-ple who have increased their omega-3 intake have been im-proving in memory scores. GO FISH! But of course, eating these foods won’t work if you will not do your job as a student. It is more like a give and take relationship. So, let us STUDY and EAT happily.

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Bahay Pag-asa, JCFAP’s Socio Civic Activity

Last December 21, 2013, the officers of the Junior Confederation of Finance– Associations Philippines had their socio civic activity at the Bahay– Pagasa located at Lions Road Mandaluyong City.

The said house is a youth development center and it also serves as a shelter for children who had conflicts with the law. A structured program for education and environmental programs are provided in the said institu-tion. The Executive Board together with the Junior Officers entertained the children with story telling, and singing songs that are famously known in the youth generation today like Whoops Keri whoops by Vice Ganda and others, There had also been an imitation of Santa Claus giving gifts to the children. The officers also singed their hearts to Christmas songs that the children had appreciated. A special prizes were also given to a kid who is considered most behaved. The said activity also had fun and games that made the children and the officers bond and truly fill the spirit of giving in Christmas season.

JCFAP wishes all the best for these children, hopefully more and more people will reach out and help them so that in the near future, they may find their righteous path.

Headed by the National President, Ms. Ma. Concepcion Lapuz and the Executive Vice President for External Affairs, Ms. Zarah Margareth Virtucio, a new chapter is added to the JCFAP family. The formation of North Luzon Chapter was held last Octo-ber 6, 2013 at Gracelane Hotel in San Fernando City of Pampanga. It was attended by a handful of student leaders from different schools in the north together with their organization advisers. JCFAP’s founding adviser, Mr. Anton Mauricio was also present on the said event. The event started with get-to-know-you games to introduce the students to one another followed by team activities to demonstrate the capabilities and skills of each student leader. Discussion of the organization’s history, background and long-term goals were also done by the national officers to increase awareness of what these student leaders will expect and the responsi-bilities they have to carry with them for the entire school year. After introducing the national organization, each student leader was given enough time to campaign and explain their plans and visions for the newly formed chapter. Julie Anne Magbanta was hailed as the Chapter President, Alex Mondia as the Executive Vice President for Internal Affairs, Louie Mariz Layosa as the External Vice President for External Affairs, Efren Macaraeg Jr as the Secretary General and Eduard Obra as the treasurer. Moreover, Antonio Tabigne, Angelica Riberal, Sarah Jane Ventura, Michelle Dumaguin landed on the Vice President positions on Comptrollership and Social Events, Promotions and Communica-tions, Corporate Relations, and Academic Affairs respectively. Organization advisers of the member schools present were de-clared as the chapter’s founding advisers namely Ms. Angela Luz Racquel, Ms. Geraldine Villareal and Ms. Elisa Cristobal. Lastly, the official founding schools of the North Luzon Chapter are University of Northern Phlippines, University of Pangasinan, Ur-daneta City University and St. Louis College. Pioneer officers are now hands-on on organizing events and reaching out to all other schools in the area. Soon enough North Luzon Chapter will grow bigger and bigger and more students will benefit from the services JCFAP has to offer. All the best for NLC’s new endeavour!

JCFAP’s Newly Formed Chapter

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A group picture with the children

Introducing the New Academic Year to a more Dynamic Student Leadership

The Junior Confederation of Finance Associations – Philippines (JCFAP) had its in-duction ceremony last June 16, 2013 held at Shakey’s Restaurant, UN Branch. It was not only attended by the initiates, but also there were participants who served as their schools’ representatives for this ceremony; representatives from San Beda College – Ma-nila, Miriam College, University of the East – Caloocan, St. Scholastica’s College, Bulacan State University, De La Salle – Lipa, and Tarlac State University. Mr. Alexander Gilles, one of JCFAP’s advisers, also came for this special event. Registration started at 8:30 in the morning, and the program proper began an hour after. The opening prayer led by Ms. Elicia Molina and the singing of National An-

proper, followed by the opening remarks given by Mr. Alexander Gilles as he cheer-fully welcomed everybody. Hosts Marc Kristian Gulle and Kathryn Bisnar made the roll-call to recognize all the participants, and an intermission number was done by Ms. Geraldine Espinase afterwards. The induction of Junior Officers was led by JCFAP’s Executive Vice Presi-dent for Internal Affairs, Ms. Rizan Dung-ganon where they took the oath of their service to the organization. The inducted junior officers were from the first and sec-ond batch of junior officers who survived the starting tasks, and they are as follows: Kathryn Bisnar, Marc Kristian Gulle, Elicia Camille Molina, and Justin Robert Sagun from University of Sto. Tomas, Geraldine Espinase from Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Manila, Alyssa Angelou Guerrero from De La Salle – Dasmariñas, Mary Pheabe Macabasco and Alecx La-canlale from San Beda College – Alabang, Michelle Mempin from University of the East – Caloocan, Kenjie Paredes from Adamson University, and Jamaica Villegas from San Beda College – Manila. Ms. Maria Jaztine Garcia led the next set of induction; it was for Mr. Justin dela Cruz, who took his oath for being a part of the organization’s creative team.

The induction and oath-taking of the new set of Executive Board was led by Ms. Ma. Concepcion Lapuz, the newly appointed National President of JCFAP. The other affiliates of the new Executive Board are: Ms. Rizan May Dungganon – Executive Vice President for Internal Affairs; Ms. Zarah Marga-reth Virtucio – Executive Vice President for External Affairs; Ms. Bridgette Aloya – Secretary General; Mr. Edilson Alcoba – Executive Treasurer; Mr. Khervine Mari Ang – VP for Comptrol-lership and Social Events; Ms. Maria Jaztine Garcia – VP for Promotions and Communications; Ms. Jehan Marie Yu-cot – VP for Corporate Relations; and Ms. Joan Llamas – VP for Academic Affairs. After the formal activities, scrumptious lunch was served while Mr. Justin dela Cruz serenaded the participants with his soothing voice. Also, there were games which the at-tendees fully participated. Prizes given were from JCFAP’s sponsors. The cere-mony ended with the closing remarks by the JCFAP’s National President, Ma. Concepcion Lapuz. Everyone received warm goodbyes from each other as they left the place and separated on their way home.

The newly appointed Executive Board

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Lecture Series 2013...

Continuation from page 1… The speakers who have provided new insights and incomparable wisdom are as follows: August 24- Mr. Arman Cruz CSE, MBA, DPA and Mr. Luis Buenaventura CFA of BDO, August 31- Ms. Karla Labatique and Prof. Celso Magcalas of Insular life with Ms. Cassandra Ty of CFA. The delegates that participated during the seminar are the following: Baliuag University Central Luzon State University, Enverga University,General De Jesus Col-lege, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Panpacific University North Philip-pines, Southville Foreign University,Trinity University of Asia, UE Caloocan, University of Rizal System, Urdaneta City University. See you again in the next Lecture Series.

Mr. Antonilo Mauricio and JCFAP’s National President together with Mr. Arman Cruz

Christmas Bonus

I feel it and I know you feel the same too. The cold breeze in the evening, sparkling lights in the streets, children doing their classic jingles, smiles on the face of everyone, the comeback of tiangges & peryas and yes! It’s Christmas Time. If we say it’s Christmas Time, many of the workers are very glad and waiting for their epic salary bonuses. I considered it as an epic thing be-cause maybe it is in a huge amount of money or we found it helpful for us to afford the things we want to buy during the Christmas season. For sure, many of the store owners will be busy on this season. Suddenly, something came into my mind and I ask ques-tions to myself. What should we do to our Christmas Bonus? Is it all about buying some stuff to fulfill your needs, pay your debts or should we say it is the perfect time to save and invest it? “Save your money and one day it’ll return the favor” - Anonymous It is a perfect situation to save your money and try to look for some investments for you to have your money growing. But take note that you are not only investing but investing with knowledge. It is a must to everyone to have knowledge in investing so that we can prevent the scam or any sudden loss of money. You have many options on where to put your money and these are stocks, bonds, mutual funds, insurance or enter a business venture it may be a sole proprietorship or partnership. For that reason, you can have your 13th month salary plus your salary bonus with a boom! After that, the stress that you gained in your work will be washed out if you received the earnings that you get from all of your investments. With no doubts, you can freely give your pamaskos to your godchildren. Remember, Christmas is all about giving, sharing, and a great time to show love to our loved ones. You can now spend your Christmas with a bunch of happiness together with your families, relatives, classmates, officemates, or childhood friends. And because of that, I am pretty sure that all of us wil l celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and thank him for all the things he have done for us, for hearing our prayers to have a good health, good work, and better life.

Christmas? Christmas?

What comes first to your mind when you hear the word “Christmas”? For some people, it would be gift giving, Santa Claus, food, lights, lanterns and other traditional Christmas stuff, and of course, for us Catholics, the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. That’s the common case if you’re a full blooded Catholic since birth. But do you ask yourself sometimes, on how other religions celebrate Christmas, or if they even have Christmas? Or maybe they don’t have Christmas but have their own version or similar to our Christmas? Or, if they don’t have, what are they doing while we celebrate Christmas? According to the internet, 33% or 1/3 of the world’s total population celebrate December 25 as the birth of Christ. All of them are estimated 2 billion Christians. Religions like Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese Traditional Religion, Non-Religious com-munities and others don’t celebrate Christmas. Other religions have their own version of Christmas, but it’s unlike in our religion wherein it is the birth of the Lord we cele-brate. Like in Islam, they have their Ramadan wherein they celebrate the day they believed they Prophet Mohammed had their holy book, the Koran. In Hinduism on the other hand, they considered December 25 to be the birthday of their God, Krishna as well as the Greek god, Mithra. From my point of view, I feel sad for those who do not celebrate Christmas since it is one of the happy events every year. It is also called the season of giving. Even for just once a year, you can help others or you can make them happy by sharing some-thing to them or giving them things that they need or things that they really want to buy. But, I guess it’s still okay since they can still help others even if it’s just an ordinary day. We’re lucky to be part of that 33% who celebrate Christmas. Lucky to experience such joy that this season gives us. So be-fore Christmas arrives, let’s prepare ourselves for the coming of our Lord. Let’s be thankful for the blessings we received. And even if we don’t have food for feast this Christmas, as long as we’re with our family, we can celebrate Christmas happily

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THE NATIONAL FINANCE SUMMIT: 2014

JCFAP National Finance Summit: Global Competence– taking it to the next level!

3,300 delegates coming from over (80) college-based finance organizations all over the country attended the Junior Confed-

eration of Finance Associations-Philippines’ 5th National Finance Summit entitled “Moving towards Global Competence”, held at

the SMX Convention Centre last January 4, 2014 in Pasay City.

The said event hosted a handful of significant topics in Finance for their aspiring delegates here in the Philippines. The top-

ics were about the Philippine Economic Update thus had given us the challenges of today’s economy, Global Finance, in which we

were taught more about the interesting facts of foreign exchange and some trivia about money-making success, Investment outlook

which have provided some new insights about investing in Mutual funds and Exchange– Traded funds also with the important as-

pects of Portfolio Diversification, Careers in Finance-mainly for the new graduates who are still confused in choosing the right ca-

reer path, and Personal Finance which was for every curious soul on how will you turn that peso into a million investment.

The Summit outlined key emerging issues discussed by highly remarkable Finance professionals including Mr. Felipe Med-

alla, a member of thee Monetary Board of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Mr. Mark So, the founder of Forex Club Asia, Mr.

Hans Sicat, the President and CEO of the Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. , Mr, Michaelangelo Oyson, CFA, the CEO and Manag-

ing director of BPI Securities Corporation, Mr. Estelito Biacora, the Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of BPI As-

set Management and Mr. Chinkee Tan, considered as the Philippines’ Top Wealth Coach and a TV and Radio Personality.

The Awarding for JCFAP’s Top Ten Outstanding Finance Students

The search for the Top Ten Outstanding Finance Students already transpired during October 2013. It was open to all mem-

ber schools of JCFAP all over the Philippines and the said participants will go through sets of screenings online where elimination

also took place. The Top 15 selected through the screenings have advanced to the last challenge which is an interview of 3 renowned

panelists that will further test their competitiveness and academic qualifications.

The Top 15 will battle on for the Top 10 positions and this title would be entailing the Top Ten of the whole Nation in Fi-

nance related courses.

The said panelists were Mr. Robert Ramos from Union Bank of the Philippines, Mr. Arman Cruz which is the adviser of

the Adamson Junior Financial Executives and an independent LGU Consultant and Mr. Don Malabanan who is a professor in De La

Salle University Dasmarinas.

The Top winners from first to tenth are as follows; Anna Camille C. Fabila of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila,

Sarah Faye A. Borromeo of the Lyceum of the Philippines University– Batangas, Francesca R. Padua of De La Salle University Ma-

nila, Brian Christopher U. Tan and Mary Madeleine L, Javiniar of the University of Santo Tomas, John Austin E. Mago of the

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Jerahld M. Libiran of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Krissa Mae A. Alegano of Univer-

sity of Mindanao– Digos, Mary Louise T. Magdalaga of New Era University and Warren Junior M. Glory of the University of Rizal

System.Apart from receiving the perk of being on top, the participant who is first in line will also have the Union Bank’s Magis

Award and the Accenture’s Highest Performer Award.

A Big Congratulations to all of the winners. See you on the next search.

JCFAP’s Breaking Borders– The Launch of its very first Job Fair For the very first time, JCFAP launched its Job Fair together with the National Finance Summit last January 4, which was

held outside the SMX function rooms. The said Job Fair was exclusive for the delegates of the National Finance Summit and it

served as an open door to the corporate world especially to the graduating students, and it also served as an internship choice for

some of the students who are still looking.

The respective companies that were present are the Job Fair were; BPI Securities Corporation, Philippine Stock Exchange,

Inc. (PSE), Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), Union Bank of the Philippines (UBP), United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB),

Eastwest Bank, American International Group (AIG), International Marketing Group (IMG), Accenture, Ayala Land Corporation

and Bloomberg Institute.

One of the main goals of JCFAP is to give its members what they deserve and that is to help Finance students to get jobs

that is suitable for them and with the start of the Job Fair, JCFAP has yet added another chapter of activities that will provide for the

future finance professionals. A great Job Hunt ahead!

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FINANCIAL LITERACY CARAVAN:2013

NCR Chapter

Last September 07, 2013, JCFAP in partnership with San Beda Manila’s Junior Financial Management Association held the first leg of the Finance Liter-acy Caravan at Abbot Lopez Hall and Conference Hall in San Beda, Mendiola Ma-nila. This is to cater to the members of the NCR Chapter. This half day event is to help Financial Management students be wise decision makers when it comes to their personal finances. The topics included Financing your Decision based on NPV Perspec-tive, Managing your Budget, and Building your Investment. These were covered by notable speakers namely Mr. Ramir Libre, Mr. Lester Yee, Mr. Limuel Manuel, and Mr. Jay Peñaflor. The event was also graced by JCFAP Advisers Mr. Alexan-der Gilles and Ms. Rumi Yamamoto. Last minute changes were done since the number of participants who are trying to attend the FLC was overwhelming. Hence, two separate halls were used and the event was done simultaneously. Despite these changes, the first leg of the Finance Literacy Caravan ended successfully with positive feed-back from the participants.

Mr. Lester Yee’s “A Million Question”

Participants listening attentively in the Abbot Lopez Hall in San Beda College Manila

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Almost 500 students from different schools attended the seminar. Namely, Tarlac State University, Wesleyan University Philippines, College Of Immaculate Concepcion, Ramon Magsaysay Technological University and Wesleyan University Philippines-Aurora. Sir Jesus Luison served as one of the resource speaker who tackled about Managing Your Budget. On the other hand, Sir Gabriel Pestano, shared his knowledge on how to Start Your Investment. Moreover, Sir Lester Yee, graced the seminar as one of the resource speakers, he inspired and motivated all the participants for he patiently ex-plained the importance of Financing Your Decisions: NPV Perspective. The purpose of the road show is to offer an overview of relevant con-cepts concerning their field of expertise. It seeks to advance students appre-ciation of the career path they may prefer to pursue in the future.

Central Luzon Chapter Led by the Junior Confederation of Finance Association Philippines - Central Luzon Chapter (JCFAP-CL) a Finance Literacy Caravan road show held on October 5, 2013 at Hilaga Village, San Fernando Pampanga.

Cagayan De Oro Edition

This school year one of the biggest event that the JCFAP- Cagayan de Oro Chapter leg with the JCFAP national organization was the “Financial Literacy Caravan”. Mr. Arman V. Cruz discussed on how to manage our budget as an individual while as it aims to promote financial literacy among fi-nance students nationwide. The event was at-tended by seven schools in the city of Cagayan de Oro namely; Capitol University and Opol Commu-nity College. Indeed they learned a lot on the FLC, the participants asked many questions to feed their interested and hungry minds. And the infor-mation given during the FLC can be useful to their future endeavors.

Cagayan De Oro JCFAP Family

JCFAP launches Quarterly Awards 2013

“This is also a reward; not just an award.”

Last November 20, 2013, the Junior Confederation of Finance Associations – Philippines (JCFAP) revealed the winners of JCFAP Awards for the first semester of the academic year 2013-2014. This JCFAP Awards serves as a medium of the organization’s appreciation and recognition to its members’ outstanding performance and continuous support for their mother organization and the industry they belong as well. The JCFAP started posting the said awarding earlier in October. The louder it got by promotions, the wider it reached and alerted the participants nationwide. Submission of requirements was supposed to end on October 25 followed by its awarding day on 29 of the same month. But due to participants’ numerous requests of extending the submission until the start of second semes-ter, deadline of submission was then moved on November 17, giving them more time for completing their requirements. Choosing the deserving winners for the titles needed deep screening. All of the participants, according to the require-ments, did great job over the given period that made them all winners for the organization. Yet, only one must stand out among them. Subsequently, listed below are the winners of JCFAP Awards 1st Semester, A.Y. 2013-2014: Outstanding JCFAP Officer: Outstanding Local Organization: Mary Grace de Ocampo JFINEX De La Salle Lipa South Luzon Chapter President Congratulations to the winners and sincerest thanks to all the participants who joined the event. You may not have won the title for the 1st semester, but chances are for the next semester until the following semesters. As the favorite saying of this writer goes, “Never let the fear of striking keep you from playing the game.”

JCFAP holds its Leadership Training

Seminar: Quest

Pursuant to our belief that Financial Management students also deserve to get the necessary exposure and in-struction for their holistic development, JCFAP organized its Leadership Traning Seminar entitled " Quest: Exploring the Spirit of Unity and Leadership last October 26-27, 2013 at Tanay Adventure Camp. This event aims to hone their skills and capabilities as student leaders as well as to promote camarade-

rie among them. According to the students who got the op-portunity to be involved in the Leadership Training, the location was very relaxing and environ-ment-friendly. There was a sense of

refreshment despite the weather being cold. A Breathe of fresh air after all student ac-tivities.

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The said event aims to improve skills, unity and student leader-ship through various activities that were shared by the partici-pants which were the Zipline, Mudslide, Bonfire activities with a thrill and many more. Together with the JCFAP officers, there were also par-ticipants from other schools and they were Aquinas University Legaspi, Tarlac State University and De La Salle Lipa. Learning while having fun is one of JCFAP's advocacies, and this event provided new insights and had become a step-ping stone for some of the participants to meet new friends and to discover something in our very selves the capacity of being a LEADER. This event again mar- ked another success for JCFAP. The exper- ience brought and memories shared really made a Difference and have absolutely given the JCFAP Experience.

Group Picture before entering the Camp

Participants getting refreshed after the activity

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Last February 22, 2014, the Junior Confederation of Finance– Associations Philippines launched its National Finance Competition at the Philippine Stock Ex-change Trading Floor in Ortigas City. The National Finance Competition which is on its 2nd year is regarded as one of the new events of JCFAP that is related with pro-moting Financial Literacy. What’s unique about this compe-tition is that the regional chapters who are included are having the quiz bee at the same time, with the same questions and scoring strategies but in different places. It is said that there were five Regional Chap-ters competing against each other and they are; North Luzon Chapter with three participating schools namely University of Pangasinan, University of Northern Philip-pines and Saint Louis College . Central Luzon Chapter with five participating schools namely College of Immaculate Conception, General De Jesus College, Ramon Magsaysay Technological Univer-sity, Tarlac State University and Wesleyan University Philippines. South Luzon Chap-ter with seven participating schools namely Batangas State University, Cavite State University, Manuel S. Enverga Uinversity Foundation, Lyceum of the Philippines Uni-versity, Divine Word College of Calapan, De La Salle University Dasmarinas

JCFAP’s presents its 2nd annual National Finance Competition

and Sacred Heart College. National Capital Region with eleven participating schools namely San Beda College, Alabang, Univer-sity of Santo Tomas, Ateneo De Manila Uni-versity, De La Salle University, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, University of the East, New Era University, Manila Tytana Col-lege, National University, National College of Business Administration and San Sebastian College. Cagayan De Oro Chapter with three participating schools namely Liceo De Ca-gayan University, Xavier University and Lourdes College. The said competition started with the traditional ringing of the Trading Bell in the trading floor of PSE. All of the said par-ticipating regions had their judges and a quizmaster. NCR’s Judges were Mr. Don Malabanan and Mr, Jonathan Gabinera who were both professors and Mr. Randell Tiong-son who is a Finance coach here in the Phil-ippines. NCR’s quizmaster is Ms. Sarah Padilla who is a Securities Specialist at the Market Education Department of PSE. Major sponsors for this event were UnionBank and Philippine Stock Exchange. The said competition had three rounds namely Easy(10points each), Moder-ate(20 points each) and Difficult(40 points each), with ten questions per round. Unfor-tunately there was one school in the NCR Region got disqualified because of time

constraints in the rules and that is Ma-nila Tytana College. The top five schools per region who scored the most questions proceeds to the difficult round, however in NCR’s case there had been some technical difficulties with the scoring and that resulted in a clincher question between two schools who had the same set of scores namely; University of the East and San Beda College, Alabang. The overall winners are as follows; First place would go to Xavier University, Second place was a tie be-tween University of Sto. Tomas and Lourdes College, in Third place was De La Salle University Dasmarinas, Fourth placer is Ateneo De Manila University, Fifth place goes to De La Salle Univer-sity Manila, Sixth place is a tie between Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and Wesleyan University, Seventh place goes to University of Northern Philippines, Eight placer is Tarlac State University, Ninth placer would be a tie between Divine Word College and Uni-versity of Pangasinan and Tenth place belonged to Cavite State University. Hopefully, more schools will participate in the next year’s JCFAP’s National Finance Competition.

JCFAP’s Sports fest 2014: Unleashing the Realm of Champions

Last March 1-2, 2014, the differ-ent finance organizations coming from different schools in the National Capital Region, participated in the Junior Confed-eration of Finance– Associations Philip-pines Annual Sports fest entitled “Unleashing the Realm of Champions” held at Amoranto Sports Complex, Que-zon City. The members of the different finance organizations had the chance to showcase their talents in terms of sports. At the same time, there has been a new-found friendship that enhanced camara-derie among other schools. The said Sports fest had four types of sports that are commonly played on school campuses namely, Badminton, Baskteball, Chess and Volleyball.

The participating schools from different finance organizations that came to participate in the said event are: Na-tional College of Business Administration, University of the East Caloocan, De La Salle University- Manila and Dasmarinas, Adamson University, Polytechnic Univer-sity of the Philippines, Colegio de San Juan de Letran and San Beda College– Alabang. The winners of Chess are: 1st– NCBA, 2nd– AdU. For Volleyball Girls; 1st-AdU, 2nd-NCBA. For Volleyball Boys; 1st– AdU, 2nd– SBCA, 3rd– PUP. For Badminton Girls; 1st and 2nd– PUP, this is because there are to groups composing the stu-dents of PUP, 3rd– AdU. For Badminton Boys, 1st– DLSU-D, 2nd and 3rd– SBCA. The games got hot during basket-ball since it was only played on single

Elimination. It got tense during the semi-finals. The winners of Basketball are as follows; 1st– PUP, 2nd– AdU, 3rd– SBCA. Aside from getting trophies and winning, the first placers also got cash prizes. Chess for P500, Badminton for P600, Volleyball for P1000 and Basketball for P1,300. The overall champions of the Said event is Adamson University’s Junior Fi-nancial Executives. They had been very competitive in all play-offs and have shown promising camaraderie. Congratulations to all the win-ners! See you all on JCFAP’s next academic year!