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The Human Side of Advisory: Providend Client Advisers on Their Ikigai We invite our very own Client Advisers to share what it means to live a good life, incorporating the concept of Ikigai and [...]

An earthquake. No one could have predicted that would happen in Bangkok on 28 March 2025. I was on a short holiday to the Thai capital with my sister. We were just settling down for lunch at the [...]

At Providend, investments are a means to achieve returns to enable our life goals. Our CEO, Christopher Tan, wrote about the 8 steps that we take to ensure the highest probability of success when [...]

For a few years now, thanks to my mother’s DNA, my “good” cholesterol reading has been very high. However, my “bad” cholesterol has been stubbornly hovering between above optimal and borderline [...]

(This article follows an earlier one titled I hate my job but don’t know what to do next) In my previous article, I shared how I arrived at the difficult decision of quitting my job without [...]

For the record, I love my current job. But I’ve certainly hit bottom with some of my previous ones. Hence, the title. So, if you dislike or hate your current role, or are looking to transit into [...]

Dear younger me, You might be surprised to hear from the older you. By the time you read this, you would have graduated and worked for a few years. I know that you are struggling to make sense of [...]