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My courtship with Vanguard funds started 16 years ago in 2004. Providend was licensed to give advice only about a year back and while we had an investment philosophy & process in place, there [...]

Adam and his wife, Sabrina, have spent the past 13 years of their lives in successful individual careers as a Technology Engineer in an American MNC and as an Account Manager, respectively. Both [...]

The anticipation building up to elections often brings with it questions about how financial markets will respond. But the outcome of an election is only one of many inputs to the market. When [...]

In 2019, the Life Insurance Association (LIA) proposed a revised set of standardised critical illness definitions that eventually were implemented by insurers. From 26 August 2020, all critical [...]

In Singapore, the current official retirement age is 62 years old but to have a realistic estimate of when you can really retire, it ultimately starts with determining your retirement needs. If [...]

If you read the news headlines in September, you would not be too amiss for thinking that the stock markets are again in dire shape. News about COVID-19 cases rising in Europe and the US, along [...]

There are a few things that could speed up an affluent person’s financial independence. But if we want to narrow to the most realistic, what would it be? After much consideration, I would say it [...]

In property-centric Singapore, buying an investment property is one of the preferred methods of growing one’s wealth. While it is a good way to add some diversity to your portfolio and [...]