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How Anyone Can Retire With $3 Million Dollars
Last year, I wrote a post where I broke down the exact figures on how the average Singaporean could save $100K by 30. Over the next few months, I received dozens of responses on the post, and I found...
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Why I’ve Been A Little Quiet Lately
Check out this email that I got from a close friend today: I have awesome friends Friends check to see how you’re doing. Best friends check to see if you’re still alive. Nope, I’m not dead, although...
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How To Invest Better By Doing Less Work
Do the most successful people work the hardest? Think about your co-workers in your office – I’m willing to bet that the guy who stays late every day isn’t the guy who’s most likely to get promoted....
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A Mini-Course On Index Investing
Happy Tuesday! I’m gonna keep this short. As you know, I’ve spent the last several months working on a premium, end-to-end course on index investing. As a preview to it, I’ve prepared a free 5-day...
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Why Learning Investing is Like Watching ‘House of Cards’
Okay, I know I’m a little slow, but I just started watching the US TV series House of Cards. If you haven’t seen it yet, go see it. It is freakin’ badass, yo. Watching Kevin Spacey manipulate his way...
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The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck (Investing Edition)
Warning: This post contains expletives. I hardly swear, but there are some situations where “gosh darn it” just doesn’t quite cut it. If you’re the kind of person who gets easily offended, don’t read...
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How To Commit
Talking about investing is kind of like playing poker: It can tell you a loooot about a person. For example, whenever I talk to random people about investing, I’ll usually get responses like: “Yeah, I...
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A Fellow Blogger Wrote A Great Book
If you’ve been checking out the Singapore personal finance blogosphere, you might know Alvin Chow, who writes at BigFatPurse.com. Alvin and I spoke at a couple of events together, and we’ve hung out a...
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What Pitch Perfect 2 Taught Me About The Singapore Savings Bonds
Let me just put it out there: Pitch Perfect 2 is an awesome movie. Sure, the plot was thin and the lines were cheesy. But admit it: you were bopping your head to those remixed songs during the movie,...
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How Do You Find The Time To Learn Investing?
So check this out – someone recently wrote in to ask: “Work takes up 14 hours of my life every day. By the end of it, I’m too tired to sit down and start doing research. What should I do?” Goooood...
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What Wantan Mee Taught Me About Investing
¡Hola, I’m back! Didja miss me? My bad on being away for so long – the past 3 weeks were absolutely crazy for me. I had back-to-back events, overseas trips and meetings, and to top it all off, a bad...
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3 Investing Lessons I Learnt From Reservist
Sooooo apparently, the market crashed last week. I had no idea, because I was in the middle of my reservist training. Yep, I was sweating it out in an ulu camp in Pasir Ris, with no clue about what was...
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The 80/20 Rule of Compound Interest
Here’s a cool fact I that read on Quora this week: Warren Buffett made 99% of his wealth after his 50th birthday. At first, this doesn’t seem to make any sense: Warren Buffett started investing at...
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5 Things About Money I Wish I Told My 20-Year Self
One of my favourite movies last year was X-Men: Days of Future Past. To save the X-Men from the Sentinels who want to fry them into goreng pisang, Wolverine travels back to 1973 to create an alternate...
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If You Had $20K, How Would You Invest It?
Happy New Year! New Year’s day is often a re-e-e-a-ll-y lethargic day for me. I had a slight hangover from my New Year’s Eve countdown, so I spent the day reading Superforecasting – a pretty cool book...
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Doing This Could Help You Leave The Office Earlier
It’s a brand new year! Let’s imagine that this year, you made a major resolution to improve the quality of your life. You’ve read all about the benefits of leaving work on time, so you hunker down and...
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Why SCB’s $10 Minimum Commission Makes Sense
The financial blogosphere buzzed with activity this week when Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) announced that they’ll be removing their famous “zero minimum commission” policy from their online trading...
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Help Me Help You Invest Better
Life has been pretty crazy for me for the past 8 months: Getting married, buying a house, renovating it, starting a new job, and lots and lots of travelling. Now that things are a little more settled...
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Why Brexit Doesn’t Really Matter (For Your Investments)
One of my friends is American, but lives and works in the UK. Even though he couldn’t vote in the referendum, he fought really hard for the “Remain” campaign. In the days leading up to the vote, he...
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How To Get Better At Investing
I watched the play HOTEL by W!ld Rice last weekend. It was easily one of the best plays I’d seen in a while: Awesome storyline, witty script, superb acting, and loads of deep concepts about Singapore’s...
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