Investment

Welcome to the first episode of Providend’s Money Wisdom Podcast Season 4! We hope everyone is looking forward to what we have in store for you this year. As the leading fee-only wealth advisory [...]

Having survived multiple market crises in our investment journey since 2001, we know what works and what won’t work. In this week’s Money Wisdom episode, Amelia from the Brand Experience [...]

Investing is Emotional and Scary Investing can be a daunting and emotional journey. Reflecting on the last four years of my own investment experience, I realised just how much of an emotional [...]

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 [...]

“You Shouldn’t Buy a Lottery Ticket” It’s pretty straightforward, and most would agree it’s financially wise. But if you told someone who just won millions from the lottery that buying a ticket [...]

For over a century, the United States (US) has been a powerhouse of innovation and value creation, making its equity market a global focal point for investors. With a robust ecosystem of [...]

Two weeks ago, I was in Guangzhou again. Besides spending time with government officials, I had the opportunity to spend time with several Chinese financial institutions to share how advice [...]

In the complex world of investing, the allure of generating “alpha”—the excess return over a benchmark index—has always been enticing. Many start their investment journeys aiming to [...]

As the 2024 US presidential election approaches, investors are grappling with uncertainty surrounding the potential outcomes and their implications for the financial markets. The political [...]

Gold has been recognised as an important instrument to store, exchange, and preserve wealth since ancient times across different countries. Today, even though we no longer use gold as a currency, [...]

Dot-Com Bust Era (1995-2000) During the dot-com bubble, many tech companies had little to no earnings growth. For example, Pets.com, one of the most notorious failures of the period, had no [...]

Question: How have the global events in recent years (e.g., Ukraine war, political instability, COVID-19, etc.) changed your investment outlook? Also, what are your thoughts on alternative assets [...]

This is a question we frequently hear from our clients. When investments aren’t performing as expected, it’s natural to wonder whether it’s time to cut your losses and reinvest [...]

Question: What are the advantages of investing through Providend when we can invest directly and at a lower cost through ETFs such as CSPX and VWRA? I’m assuming that Providend also invests [...]

I always wondered why we need to pay a king’s ransom for an omakase (“I leave it up to you”) meal where the chef decides what is good for me. Should not the premium be justified [...]

Welcome back to part six of this nine-part mini-series, “The Story of Our Clients’ Wealth Journey”, where we delve into the wealth management journey of our clients. As the leading [...]

Providend is excited to share that we are working alongside Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) to introduce three new low-cost CPFIS funds to Singaporean investors: The Global Core Equity III Fund [...]

As the leading fee-only wealth advisory firm in Asia, our Founder and CEO, Christopher, discusses in his Business Times article why you should not simply invest in the S&P 500 alone. With [...]

In recent years, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) have become increasingly popular investment tools globally, offering investors a diversified way to invest in various assets like stocks and bonds. [...]

In recent years, I have been hearing more and more investors say that all they need to do is buy an ETF or Index Fund that tracks the S&P 500 index and they would get the investment returns [...]

Being a trusted adviser to our affluent clients for over two decades, it is important to ensure the reliability and sufficiency of investment returns to meet our clients’ non-negotiable [...]

A week ago, I was in Guangzhou to participate in a closed-door meeting with the Chinese investment advisory industry leaders and government officials. I also gave a keynote speech to their [...]

At Providend, we adopt an investment strategy that is market evidence-based. Our investment philosophy and approach must: Be able to deliver long-term returns that thrive at meeting the [...]

Working in a financial advisory firm, I frequently overhear my colleagues discussing how they assist clients in reaching their life goals by increasing their wealth through investments. This [...]

After working hard in your career for the past 15 years, you’ve earned a well-deserved promotion to a senior level in the company. As you read through the promotion letter, aside from the [...]

It has been a month since changes made to the CPF were announced and it has sparked many discussions on retirement planning which are still ongoing on mainstream media, digital media channels and [...]

For years, CPF members were able to “shield” the money in their CPF Special Account (SA) from being transferred to their Retirement Account (RA) by investing the money in excess of the first [...]

In 2010, after the Global Financial Crisis that caused many to lose their wealth, I had an epiphany to develop the “Philosophy of Sufficiency” for my firm. It is the philosophy that [...]

I was born five years after Singapore’s independence. My late father came from Malacca during his teenage years to work for the Singapore Traction Company, which ran trams. It was a blue-collar [...]

Did you know that Dave Butler, Co-CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), was a former professional basketball player? Standing at over two metres tall, how did he come to and stay in his role at [...]