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Would You Like To Buy A Porsche For Your Hedge Fund Manager?
Is there a celebrity you've always wanted to meet? Justin Timberlake, President Obama, Steve Jobs, Justin Bieber (so you can punch him in …
CPF Board’s Latest Initiative Is Pretty Awesome For Young People
Our Government is notoriously bad at coming up with names. For example, there’s that infamous story of how the CAAS spent $28,000 to …
Can You Beat Stock-Pickers By Flipping A Coin?
Imagine a world where nobody knows how to pick stocks. There are no investment books, no brokerages, and no annoying financial gurus …
How To Outperform By Simply Being Half-Decent
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 …
What You Can Do About This CPF Thing
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 …
The Biggest Mistake That Beginner Investors Make
Let’s say that you wanted to learn tennis. What’s the first thing you should focus on? Should you figure out which racquet to buy? Whether …
The Myth of the Successful Money Manager
I love to laugh at the fancy ads that fund management companies take out on the MRT. They'll say things like "Hey, we're superdamnawesome at …
Two Steps To Get Lucky
I’m really embarrassed about this, but here goes: Hi, my name is Lionel and I’m terrible at Mandarin. No, really. I’ve had endless …