“Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.” – Bo Sanchez

HSBC, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp, said in a survey that most Asians, including Filipinos, do not have enough savings for their retirement needs. This lack poses potential financial crisis in the latter part of their lives, (The Philippine Star’s Business As Usual section last March 4, 2013 by Donnabelle L. Gatdula).

The bank’s survey shows that people aspire to a positive retirement but there are two reasons which push retirement savings down people’s priority list while they get older. These reasons, they noted, were living expenses and major life events such as the cost of property or mortgages.

HSBC noted that planning early and taking professional advice, rather than taking a self-directed approach and using one’s own knowledge and calculations, may lead to increased savings. Gigi Pio De Roda, HSBC’s senior vice president and head of retail banking and wealth management said that a structured and disciplined approach guided by a professional financial adviser will help people start or catch up on their retirement savings.

If you are like the respondents of the survey who cite day-to-day living cost as a key reason why you never saved for retirement but seriously wants to, you may want to consider joining the Truly Rich Club. You will be mentored by Bo Sanchez, writer, preacher, builder of Light of Jesus community and businessman, when you join this club. Bo Sanchez is the man who taught his maids and his driver (who has four kids and lives in a squatter area) how to invest in the stock market. One of his maids, whom he has promoted to bookkeeper, already has half a million pesos in the stock market.

If you want to learn the structured and disciplined way of investing in the stock market and consequently, achieve your dream of retiring comfortably with more than enough money which you can share with the least of your brothers, join the Truly Rich Club now.