The Problem About Dividends
I love getting stuff for free. My word, I seriously love getting stuff for free. In fact, the only person I know who loves getting stuff for free more than me is my mother. The apple doesn’t fall [...]
Winning The Trade War With A Diversification Strategy
The recent economic sabre-rattling between the US and China have upset the markets, with indexes shedding year-to-date gains as investors wake up to the reality that a full-blown trade war is a [...]
Stocks Can Be Less Risky Than Bonds
Investors are often told by the financial media and experts that stocks are riskier investments than bonds. So much so that it has become almost conventional wisdom, and to state otherwise risks [...]
How Rising Interest Rates Can Affect You and What To Do About It
With suggestions that U.S. Federal Reserve may raise their interest rate benchmark in 2017 due to a recovery in the U.S. economy as well as an anticipated increase in fiscal spending under [...]
Behavioral Investing: Why Most Investors Lose Money In The Stock Market
In early September, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam revealed that over the past ten years, more than 80% of CPF investors would have been better off leaving their money in the CPF [...]
Do Low-Cost Investments Give Investors Higher Returns?
In early September, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam revealed that over the past ten years, more than 80% of CPF investors would have been better off leaving their money in the CPF [...]
Are You Cut Out To Be Your Own Fund Manager?
Over the years, I’ve had many family members and friends ask me which stocks they should buy. While in the past I answered by naming a few stocks that I thought were of good value, after some [...]
