The financial blogosphere buzzed with activity this week when Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) announced that they'll be removing their famous …
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What Penang Char Kway Teow Taught Me About Investing
Last weekend, I took a 4-day trip to Penang to pig out. I probably gained 5 kilograms and maybe shortened my lifespan by about 8 years, but …
Stocks Are Getting Tiny. Should You Care?
A reader writes in, asking: "I'd like to ask your opinion on the announced reduced lot sizes in SGX coming in 2015. Do you think that with …
What The Shawshank Redemption Taught Me About Investing
One of my favourite movies of all time is The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. I’m not really sure why. Maybe …
Everything That Could Go Wrong With Index Investing
Don’t tell anyone because I’m embarrassed, but I used to be a HUGE Eminem fan. I’d come home from school, use my comb as a makeshift mic, …
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 …
How To Invest While Having A Life
First, a quick announcement: This Sunday, at 9am Singapore Time, I’m going to release Automatic Investing to the world. By this point …
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 …
What’s Good To Invest In “Right Now?”
One of the side effects of being a personal finance blogger is that relatives love asking me for financial advice. This Chinese New Year, …