I still remember the most horrifying moment of my student life. It was 2010 and I was doing my final exam in Financial Economics. The exam had 6 questions – I only had to answer 4 of ‘em, and I would be home free with a Masters degree in my pocket, and an awesome summer […]
The past couple of days have been the equivalent of a 7pm Channel 8 boxing drama for personal finance geeks like me. In the Red corner we have Roy “Colourful Charts” Ngerng (how do you pronounce that name?) crying foul at how our CPF funds are being used by the “gahmen”. In the Blue corner
So my girlfriend had an epiphany recently: She wants to buy a car. Not some boring old Toyota Camry, mind you (no offense to the Toyota Camry drivers reading this), but a sexy, sporty Mazda MX 5. Why now? Because she realized that she’ll only look cool driving a sports car while she’s still young.
Most Singaporeans (including myself) have incredibly high expectations for everything we do. For example, I found myself getting pissed because I missed the MRT by 2 seconds last night and I had to wait SEVEN WHOLE MINUTES for the next one. Seven minutes!! (Never mind that in other countries, waiting ten minutes for the subway
I recently met up with Alvin and Jon from BigFatPurse.com (I know right, that’s a freakin’ awesome name) to talk about my hot-off-the-press ebook Automatic Investing: The No-Stress Guide to Index Investing in Singapore. You can check out the interview here. You know the feeling when you’re traveling overseas, and you meet some fellow Singaporeans at
Readers who follow my blog will know that I’m a huge weirdo. For example, I used to be obsessed over trading books. I’d spend hours in the “investing” section at Kinokuniya and Borders devouring mountains and mountains of books. (Fact: When Borders closed, I ran out into the rain, turned my head to the sky
When it comes to investing, most of the really important stuff is actually really simple. It only sounds complicated because your financial planner wants to confuse you even further so he can charge you even more money. In a recent blogpost, I mentioned that the two most important things you need to know about investing are:
First, a quick announcement: This Sunday, at 9am Singapore Time, I’m going to release Automatic Investing to the world. By this point you’re either really excited about it or are really tired of hearing about it. Either way, we’ll be underway soon. 🙂 The Most Valuable Currency Of All Today, I want to talk about
I used to worry a lot. It sounds silly now, but I used to worry that one day, I’d wake up and realize that I wouldn’t be able to support my parents. I worried that I was going to have to work till I was 70 just to feed my family. I was probably the
