Beyond Stock Market Returns: How Providend Transformed My Investment Approach
I made my first stock market investment in June 2009 during the Global Financial Crisis. It was sheer luck that I entered the market not long after it had hit its lowest point in March that year. [...]
Portfolio Returns 101: 2 Essential Building Blocks and 5 Key Considerations
The best musical composition, novel, or artwork is built on basic elements like notes, alphabets, or colour palettes. Similarly, to appreciate the elegance, depth and intricacy of portfolio [...]
The Quest for Alpha: Why Striving to Beat the Market Is Often a Futile Pursuit
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 [...]
Investing in the S&P 500 Alone is Not the Silver Bullet
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 [...]
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 [...]
