How To Make Your Child A Millionaire On $1 Per Day
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Time To Invest Is Now
If you are waiting for the right time to invest in the market, that time is now. You might think I’m crazy. The S&P 500 Index is at an all-time record high, traditional market valuation [...]
RetireWell Part 10: Stock Markets Always Rise Over the Long Term
This is the 10th instalment of our retirement series. In my previous writings, I shared how I used our proprietary tool “RetireWell” to give our client David (aged 59), a reliable income stream [...]
Should You Invest Only In “Blue Chips” On The SGX?
Why Do Some People Invest Only In Singapore Blue-Chip Stocks? “Sean ah,” approached my auntie during Chinese New Year. “Eh, ask you…you work in investing right? So which companies’ stocks are [...]
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 [...]
4 Things You Need To Do With A Looming “Financial Crisis”
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 [...]
