Dimensional’s Dave Plecha Deep Dive on all things Bond Investing
If we compare bonds and equities, most of the financial commentators know more about equities. Equities are the asset class…
How to Automatically send useful, customized Interactive Brokers reports to your email
Here are the instructions to create tailored Interactive Brokers statements delivered to your email. An investor in today’s world is…
Moat Market Intel: GoodRx, O’Reilly Automotive Deep Dives, Semi Brain Drain at Apple and Druckenmiller Wisdom.
Evergrande, fed meeting dominates the news today. However, when it comes to clients, they are less worried about things this…
How would you successfully close a prospect who has a better growth of wealth than your recommendation?
Yesterday, I read this review of a topic that came up at a conference covering finance, technology and geopolitics. In…
Evergrande’s debt issues may result in aftershocks in the high yield bond market.
If you have paid attention to the financial media, you may have encountered various different posts talking about how Chinese…
Moat Market Intel: Age of Bull Market, Years with Shallow Drawdowns and Good Wealth Planning Rules of Thumb
This week, we have 8 points. I thought that I would like to make some comments on certain market stuff…
Can You Retire Early if You have a Child?
One of the questions that were recently asked on our Singapore Financial Independence Subreddit is on pursuing early retirement with…
How the Options Market ends up Controlling the S&P 500 in 2021.
A few months ago, Flirting with Models brought on a very unique guest called Cem Karsan. Whenever I listen to…
Moat Market Intel Featuring Aims APAC Potential Purchase of 10-year Lease Office, Estate Tax Video and Bearish Bond Outlook
I am not sure if everyone is feeling it, but I felt that the energy level to work is at…
Manulife Cut Bonus for Some of their Participating Insurance Policies (Notes)
My friend Chris from Tree of Prosperity recently asked whether there is some truth to a nasty rumour that some…
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The Right Portfolio Strategies for Essential, Important and Aspirational Financial Goals.
Recently at work, I needed to read this research paper so as to gain additional clarity on something that I…
Sign Up with New Singapore Broker Futu SG and Get 1 FREE Apple Share and 180 Days Commission-free Trading. My Review of moomoo. (September 2021 Update)
This is Kyith here. Just a little update. I have been running different promotions for Futu SG since April this…
Singapore Savings Bonds SSB October 2021 – Long Yield Continue to go Down
Here is a safe way to save your money that you have no idea when you will need to use…
Valuing the US Bull Market with Total Cash Flow and Appreciating US Corporate Profits in 2021
In July, a slide deck from JP Morgan show that based on the Cyclically adjusted price-earnings, the market is not…
Passively Invest in Wide-Moat Companies with VanEck’s MOAT & GOAT ETF
While I was reviewing some of the London-listed UCITS ETFs, I chanced upon two interesting ETFs by VanEck Vectors that…
How your Obligations to Yourself and Others affect your Wealth for Financial Independence
Back during my army days, we would meet all sorts of different characters. I guess that is the same for…
DBS Home Equity Loan Review
DBS came up with a novel loan that targets the older Singaporeans and permanent residents with private property so that…
What is Your Savings Rate, Spending Rate and Personal Free Cash Flow?
I had written a lot of articles where I used the terms savings rate, or your level of savings and…
5 Simple Vital Ratios to Track on Your Financial Independence Journey
I listened to Sarah Newcomb’s interview on Morningstar’s The Long view last week and looked her up as she shared…
Why “Inflation is Transitory” is Dangerous Communication.
There is this ongoing debate whether the inflation we are seeing in various pockets is going to be transitory or…
Comparing the Performance of Some Robo Advisers (Full Year 2020/2021 Update)
5 months ago, I updated readers on how the performances of the more popular Robo Advisers. I started the tracking…
Manulife US REIT Cuts Dividend per Unit by 11.5% in their 1H 2021 Update.
Manulife US REIT this morning announced their 1st half 2021 results. They also declared a half-yearly dividend per unit of…
Too much Optimism to the Amazon growth story.
Upon the announcement of their Q2 2021 financial results, Amazon share price fell by about 7%. I guess many of…
The Inner Money Thoughts of an Overnight Millionaire
If you become rich, your friends might look at you differently. What you tell the people outside might be very…
Singapore Savings Bonds SSB September 2021 – Economy not growing for 6 years
Here is a safe way to save your money that you have no idea when you will need to use…
Deep dive into Quantitative Bond Investing
We all invest in bonds differently. Some Invest in bonds as a portfolio of bonds in a unit trust or…
I have not so good vibes about Syfe
From time to time, I get readers and Redditors asking me about my thoughts on investing in Syfe’s portfolio. I…
How to Trade Premarket and After-hours with Interactive Brokers.
By default, you can only trade stocks, shares and options during the hours where the stock exchange is open. But…
What now after $Tal Education and other China Education Stocks fell 90%?
There will be a few times in investing where an investor feels are so concentrated on the investment angle that…
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A Logical Personal Balance Sheet
In match your wealth with your goals in life, I explained the right philosophy you should have when thinking about…