What If Rice Gets Pricier? What a Very Strong El Niño Could Mean for Your Household Budget
PAGASA sees an 81% chance of a very strong El Niño through January 2027. What it could mean for rice, grocery bills and your household’s plan.
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55% of Filipinos Have Life Insurance Coverage. That Doesn’t Mean You’re Covered.
Life insurers collected ₱229.98 billion in six months and cover 55% of Filipinos. Here is what those numbers say, and what they leave out, for your household.
Get Yourself Covered First. No Matter How Small.
By law, every passenger on a Philippine domestic ferry is insured from the moment they board, for at least ₱200,000 in case of death. That amount was never meant to be a family’s whole plan.
GCash IPO: What the ₱6.60 Final Price, the October 6–12 Offer Window, and GStocks Actually Mean
Most of the GCash IPO is existing shareholders selling, and it priced at ₱6.60, well under the ₱10 ceiling. What If reads the offer before the October 6–12 window.
Filipino Life Insurers Just Paid Out ₱69.2 Billion. Here’s What That Number Actually Means.
Premiums grew 17.9% in the first half of 2026. Benefits paid out grew faster — 19.5%. That gap between the two numbers is the more interesting story.
No One Is Coming to Save Us.
A ₱2 trillion flood-control scandal, a record-low poverty rate, and the missing half of the plan every Filipino family was taught to skip.