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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 [...]

Earlier this year, I had the chance to travel up to Genting Highlands – the City of Entertainment. We took a bus up and after weaving through a long, windy, sloping road, we finally reached the [...]

Paul Merriman, the financial educator and adviser, believes that you can invest just $3,000 on behalf of your child, and turn it into $50m.  If he’s right, this could be the most important [...]

I have not been writing about investments for quite some time. And the reason is that there is really nothing new for me to talk about. You must be thinking that I am joking. So much is happening [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From young, we’re generally taught to save. If we were lucky enough to have an allowance, we were told to put some away. Maybe we had a tooth fairy who gave us some pocket change, again, we were [...]

Many of us know that it is important to invest our money wisely so that we can reach our financial goals. These include goals such as retiring comfortably, funding our children’s education, [...]

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 [...]

Most of us own whole life insurance plans. They are meant to protect us against death, disability or a major illness for our entire life. But do we really need insurance cover for our entire [...]

Making your money work harder for you has been relatively challenging ever since the Global Financial Crisis began in 2008, with later events such as the European debt crisis and China’s economic [...]

Part of our job as a fee-only retirement financial advisory firm is to evaluate the investment products/proposals that our clients receive from the financial institutions that they have [...]

As wealth managers, are we still taking time to truly understand clients’ needs? Whatever happened to the consideration to recommend what is best for clients’ profitability? Where is that fiduciary [...]