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Investing Principle #4 – Investing Is Hard – Get Help From A Trusted Advisor
When you are physically unwell When you feel unwell, you have two options. You can either see a doctor; or You can self-medicate In the first case, you are assured of the right diagnosis and are prescribed proper medication, follow-ups, and an MC. In the second case,...
Investing Principle #3: Invest For The Long Term
The Market Always Recovers Over the past century, we have seen numerous bear markets and recessions. In recent decades we had gone through the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, dot.com bubble in 2000 and Global Financial Crisis in 2008. Yet markets have always...
Investing Principle #2 – Start Investing As Early As You Can
When you think about the span of your life, you can easily break it up into three parts. We spend a third of our lives growing up, another third maturing into various responsibilities and the final third of our lives in retirement. Given that Singapore has one of the...
Investing Principle #1 – Always Start With A Plan
Have you ever experienced travelling overseas without a plan, and ended up not visiting the attractions you had wanted to go? While going on a holiday without a plan may result in wasted time and a few missed attractions at best, investing without a plan could mean...
Bond Investing: Not Just About Buy And Hold
What is a bond? Bond is a debt security or I.O.U. issued by a government or corporation to raise funds. By investing in a bond, investors (aka. bondholders) are essentially lending money to the bond issuers. If you take up a bank loan today, you know that you will...
Stay Invested For The Long Term? Think Again.
Although it helps you capture the returns from the stock market, here are some things that you should take note of and not follow blindly.
Why You Don’t Need Speculative Assets Like US Oil ETFs For Your Long-Term Goals
What should you rely on for your future retirement and goals?
Stock Market Commentary: Confront the brutal facts, yet never lose faith
The 24th and 25th days of March 2020 were two rare consecutive “green” days for the US markets since the COVID-19 sell-off began almost a month ago. From a low point of over -30% from the peak, the S&P500 was up a huge 9.4% on the first green day the expectation...
Is a -12% down a Verdict on Fed and Government Actions? Give It Time.
When the markets are under extreme stress, things can and do happen on Sunday nights. Back in September 2008, Lehman’s default and Merrill Lynch’s running into Bank of America’s arms for rescue took place on a Sunday night, US time. A week later, Goldman Sachs and...
