About Providend

For the past 22 years, our CEO, Christopher Tan, has always been at the front line to share more about the humble beginning of Providend and how we persevered despite all the hardships faced to [...]

2015 was a very somber year for me. A series of events that happened reshaped the way I view my career in the financial services industry. Within a short span of two months, three of my clients, [...]

In this fast-paced financial landscape where businesses are in pursuit of faster revenue, interactions between wealth advisers and clients are highly transactional such that the value is often [...]

In the past 3 years, many studies on the value of advice have emerged. Fund managers like Russell Investments and Vanguard, as well as professional associations like CFA Institute and Financial [...]

As we appear to take a ‘passive’ approach to investing by not doing the typical tactical asset allocation (TAA) or market timing approach, many seem to think that nothing much is done [...]

From time to time, we will get this question about the way we manage wealth for our clients: “why should clients pay you an ongoing advisory fee if you take a “passive” instead of an “active” [...]

Did you know that back in 2013, a panel set up to review the financial advisory industry has rejected an outright ban on commission for financial advisers in Singapore? In this episode, Chris [...]

20 years ago, I wrote an article in this same column about the different ways financial institutions are compensated and their implications for consumers. Suffice to say, the industry, which is [...]

“How many two hours do you have to spend with the client in order to close a deal?” “Why are you going through client’s insurances for them when your job is to get them to buy our products?” “You [...]

Living a Good Life: Courage, Style, and Entrepreneurship After 60 In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by the lovely Ms Ong Bee Yan, who shares how she blossomed from a shy young woman [...]

22 years ago, a group of like-minded people with a conviction to provide conflict-free wealth advice to their clients came together and founded Providend. In this episode, our CEO, Christopher [...]

Here comes the FIRST episode of Providend’s Money Wisdom Podcast Season 2! In this episode, you will get to know more about your new co-host – Isaac Ong, as he shares what he does as an [...]

This month marks the 25th anniversary of my career in wealth advisory. Time really flies. I had a good career, not that it was worry-free. Instead, it was all the crises that I have gone through [...]

Living a Good Life: Steering Life’s Transitions with Purpose “At some point in time, we see the higher purpose of why we are doing certain things.” This reflection sets the tone for [...]

Times flies and it has been three years since the outbreak of COVID-19. Looking back, COVID-19 has changed the way we work, live, think and behave in the past three years from 2020 to 2022, and [...]

(This article is a sequel to my previous article detailing Why I Choose to Take My Job on the Road) Beyond the simmering excitement behind the nerves for the solo adventure I was embarking on, I [...]

Living a Good Life: Purpose, Faith, and Servant Leadership “A good life must have God in it, for me. Without Jesus in my life, I wouldn’t be living a good life.” In this special edition of The [...]

Living a Good Life: Our CEO Christopher’s Journey From Chicken Rice Dreams to Contentment “At 17, my goals were simply to make more money to afford regular meals like chicken rice.” The [...]

Living a Good Life: From Architecture to Empowering Seniors Through Purposeful Innovation “I have my wife who is my pillar and rock, and also my little baby who can’t say much but at least I can [...]

“When you become a mother, you only get to eat the leftover food that your kids don’t like to eat, and those food include the driest part, least juicy part of the meat, and the [...]

Living a Good Life: Why Dr Tang Redefined His Role in Healthcare “I want to live a more colourful life, I want to experience more of the world, I want to see different aspects of the healthcare [...]

Living a Good Life: Why Keen on Balancing Creativity, Career, and Family Values “We feel that social media is flooded with a lot of negativity, so we wanted to create a space where we can [...]

From Ambition to Purpose: Der Shing and Shao-Ning on Living a Good Life As the leading fee-only wealth advisory firm in Asia, we have always advocated our clients to make life decisions before [...]

Living a Life of Purpose With Loo Cheng Chuan, Founder of 1M65 As the leading fee-only wealth advisory firm in Asia, our wealth management philosophy of making life decisions before money [...]

For a long time, I thought it was unlikely I would have children. Not because I felt strongly that I didn’t want to but because I am not sure if I want to give myself so completely to others that [...]

Just hold on for a few more months and get the masters, they said. As December dwindles into the abyss of 2017, it is hard not to reflect on the many challenges and glories we have had to face [...]

As I reflect at the events that happened in the past year, the most triumphant one for me was getting this position at Providend. When I tell people that I am a Brand Management Assistant at a [...]

“I want to be a wealth adviser,” I told Ms. Yap, Executive Director of Whitman Independent Advisors. “I want to help people in the journey of crafting their very own holistic wealth plan and then [...]

This is an article published on Expat Living Singapore for Max Keeling, Head of Expat Advisory Division of Providend. There are so many ways to invest our hard-earned money; which direction is [...]

This is an article published on Expat Living Singapore for Max Keeling, Head of Expat Advisory Division of Providend. Great financial advice is not simply about an advisor telling you where to [...]