It is quite a common occurrence to hear from people that they are into purchasing blue-chip stocks. In fact, I started that way myself by buying a few DBS shares here and a handful of Singtel [...]

Like many people during this pandemic, my husband and I started to go on more and longer cycling trips together over the past 2 years. Usually we will check the skyline before we leave the house. [...]

There have been a lot of talks about ESG investing recently. Financial institutions have been marketing their ESG investments aggressively to attract investors’ money and there are a lot of [...]

Developed world stocks continued to rise in August, and Emerging Market stocks rebounded after a tumble in July. Bonds fell as yields ticked up after Fed chairman Jerome Powell comments at the [...]

The Brand Team once asked me what I thought was one of the luckiest things that has happened to me—they were looking for a piece of interesting trivia for my adviser profile page. After some [...]

“siao on” (a Singaporean term for being overly serious or on the ball) is how my closer friends would describe me when it comes to national service (NS). I started serving my NS in the army at [...]

I was lying in bed one night, half-awake when a question suddenly popped into my head (true story) – “If I had a sudden increase in my net worth of a million dollars (bitcoin perhaps?), how [...]

July looks a little like a tale of 2 regions, with Global equities continuing their slow and steady climb to new records, while EM stocks had a tumble as changing regulations around Chinese [...]

A few months ago, I had the privilege to conduct an indoor gardening workshop for our Providend family. Since the start of the pandemic, with more time spent at home now, there is a growing [...]

Earlier this month, I celebrated my work anniversary at Providend. Since joining the firm as an Associate Adviser in 2019, I have had a wonderful experience and one through which I have learnt an [...]

On 24th October 2020, I wrote in this column about Providend’s courtship with Vanguard funds. It was a 16-year courtship which started in 2004, speaking with 4 country heads to get them to bring [...]

We did our company health screening a few months ago. I was not expecting the screening results to be any different from the previous results two years ago. To my surprise, my blood glucose level [...]

Do you know what are the odds of you getting a positive return when you are invested in any 1-year, 5-year, 10-year and 20-year period? In this episode, I will walk you through a few scenarios to [...]

The summer months are typically a little less exciting in the markets as liquidity dries up. However, the lower liquidity can make for more volatile trading as market participants find it harder [...]

Recently, I decided to sign up for a coaching program offered by SMU. It is a comprehensive course covering 4 modules where we are taught on the foundations of coaching leading to a Professional [...]