Strategic Retreat #1 : Personal Update
I’ve been receiving a lot of well-wishers over my health condition so I thought I’d share an update. My…
Time for a Strategic Retreat
I had a health scare this week. After a routine blood test, doctors found that my Lipase level was elevated…
ERM Community Event Q32022 – Running your own Robo-advisor
Pretty sure by now, folks who regularly attend evening investment webinars are sick and tired of discussions on inflation…
The Three House Investment Plan
There are some investment ideas that really enable some really out-of-the-box thinking in this book. My favourite idea is…
Letter to Batch 27 of the Early Retirement Masterclass
Dear Students of Batch 27, It’s been a great honour and privilege to conduct a 5-Day Early Retirement Workshop for…
Who is the Seven Dollar Millionaire ?
To maintain thought leadership, I can’t stick to just the advanced finance books, I have to read the basic…
On developing new personal hobbies
I’m not posting something too hardcore this weekend as I’ve just returned from Kulai JB where I spent a…
BaliFIRE and Geo-arbitrage – The case of Jean Voronkova
RGS girls see themselves as “daughters of a better age”. Sadly, we live in the Age of Incels, where anonymous…
Overemployment as a method to achieve your FIRE ambitions
I lost an interesting bet lately. The structure of the bet I made was this : Which will be gone first,…
Why we need to resist the idea of SAP Polytechnics and SAP Universities.
Of late, I’ve been catching up with secondary school pals to organize dinners with our secondary school teachers. With…
On Wild Problems
As I run a programme that is highly dependent on number crunching by computers, I’m fully aware that there…
FIRE is a good servant but bad master.
I had the good fortune to received a message on Linkedin from Keith Yap. He wrote this, and I’m posting…
Does FIRE subvert conventional ideas of work and finances ? WTF !
I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry, his guy called Keith Yap, who seems to work in…
On Singapore’s elusive third gear lifestyle
Every National Day, I want to talk about emigration. But this year it seems that many influencers and bloggers…
The best is yet to be – My adventures at ACS Independent
It is good that investment trainers to do some pro-bono by visiting secondary schools and presenting to students. If…
Keep discretionary expenses to things that suit your personality
Nick Maggiulli’s Just Keep Buying was highly recommended by friends and some readers of this blog and I enjoyed the…
Thinking and lifestyle design using real options and annuities
This post came about because of MissFITFI’s podcast with the owner of Saturday Kids. You can listen to the podcast…
Why you will fail at Value Investing – part 3
Having established that the company has a high business and management quality. The final step is to determine whether…
Why you will fail at Value Investing – part 2
If you think that Part 1 of this series makes Value Investing look impossible for retail investors, part 2…
Letter to Batch 26 of the Early Retirement Masterclass
Dear Students of Batch 26, It’s been a great honour and privilege to conduct a 5-Day Early Retirement Workshop for…
Why you will fail at Value Investing – part 1
Over the next few weeks, I will be reviewing the latest literature on Value Investing. I’ve decided to do…
Why buy the whole cow when you only need the milk ?
The idea of why a person would want to buy a whole cow when he only needs to drink some…
Is Singapore too “tense” for our own good ?
For reasons which can only be explained if you know me well enough, I seldom have a meal with…
Why you need to have your own Marshmallow Test
When the Stanford Marshmallow Test was conducted in the 1970s, psychologists concluded that kids who can exert enough self-control to…
Million dollar idea : How to Develop Conscientiousness
The question of how to develop and increase conscientiousness is a million-dollar question that parents and various arms of…
What great questions are you working on?
Financial independence and running a freelancing business has narrowed the field that I read. In those days when I…