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 We are very delighted and deeply honoured to welcome Dr Peng Chen as an addition to our growing family! Prior to joining Providend, Dr Peng had an illustrious career as the founding CEO of [...]

This is an original article written by Yuanwen Hu from Lianhe Zaobao and it has been published on 7th March 2021. [...]

This is an article published on Expat Living Singapore for Max Keeling, Head of Expat Advisory Division of Providend. There’s nothing wrong with a financial advisor having a vested interest in [...]

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 [...]

Patricia has always wanted to find someone to help her make sense of her family’s finances so that she can be a good steward of the family wealth. Originally, she and her husband, Stanley, came [...]

Eliza and Noah are not really big on the idea of retirement. It is not that they find retirement repulsive, but because they have always found their respective career interesting and challenging. [...]

19 years ago, on this very same day, 19 men trained by al-Qaeda carried out a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States that had been planned for years. The attackers simultaneously [...]

From an Economics Undergraduate to Master of Counselling graduate and ultimately Associate Adviser at Providend, Bryan ventured off the socially-sanctioned path after graduation in pursuit of his [...]

As we go through life, change is one thing that remains constant. However, this does not mean that making any changes to your life is easy, especially when it involves relocation of your family, [...]

Greetings all! I recently joined Providend in a Senior Client Advisor capacity, but whilst I am new to the role, I have had a very long and fruitful association with the firm over the last 11 [...]

What may come to your mind immediately is that this book is about Wills. You’re partly correct. We’ll, however, help you see that this is also partly a misconception. Estate planning is a lot [...]

We are finally down to the last weekend of circuit breaker!   Although we are unable to return to our pre-COVID-19 routine immediately, we are definitely making good progress in the return to [...]

Here is the third part to ‘The People Of Providend Series | COVID-19 Circuit Breaker’ as we draw near to the final leg of the circuit breaker! If you’ve been following the series [...]

1. For the extra 1% interest, how do they divide the interest on $40,000 between SA and RA? CPF allocates based on the precedence of RA-OA-SA-MA. If you are currently after 55 years old, and you [...]

As we pass the halfway mark of our circuit breaker journey, everyone at Providend continues to do their very best to champion this pandemic, taking positive steps to cope with obstacles instead [...]

The pandemic is revolutionizing the workplace. Working remotely from home has become the norm in most organizations now and it is completely redefining the way teams communicate and work. At [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a pause in the economic activities which triggered one of the worst quarters of the financial market since 2008. Watch this video by Max Keeling, Head of Expat [...]

Financial planning is about understanding the many investment decisions that we make and then bringing them together to fit in appropriately with the goals and responsibilities we have in mind. [...]

Many of us have wondered why there’s more and more talk about the importance of writing a Will nowadays. There are good reasons for this which I will highlight in this article. For the picture to [...]

Does what happen in the stock market every day make you happy or sad? If so, every year, you should be happiest on the 28th of October. Because 28th October is historically the best day of the [...]

We are A Family Serving Families. Learn about our purpose and you can trust our financial advisers to provide honest, independent and competent advice to our clients. Experience The Providend [...]

Despite going against the grain of the industry, we will continue to advocate our promise of honesty. Honour (Singapore) has chosen to honour Providend as an organisation which embraces such [...]

Many skeptics, especially people who have never invested before, regard investing as another form of gambling. Even though there’s a thin line between the two, they are two vastly different [...]

It’s 11th September again. It has been exactly 18 years since Providend was first established as a fee-only financial advisory firm. For those who are unfamiliar, back on 11th September 2001, the [...]

A few days ago, Michael Burry, a fund manager whose massively successful bet against the US subprime housing market was dramatised in the film, “The Big Short”, said that passive investing was a [...]

Building wealth requires understanding what matters and, at the same time, recognizing what you can control. The intersection of and distinctions between these two concepts are important to [...]