Retirement Planning
AIG meltdown: Is your AIA policies safe?
By this time it is quite evident that AIG have a massive credit problem and are scrambling to short up its credit lines.
What is concerning Singaporeans are whether their policies are safe.
Patrick Lim from PromiseLand, an IFA house posted abit of guidance on his blog.
In it he mentioned about how this debacle came about and [...]
Retirement Advice for Twenty Somethings
I thought i will put this up as well. Its a good article that its not all about saving and not having fun. its finding the right balance in life.
From Portfolio.com:
A reader writes:
As a “younger investor” myself looking for ways to
retire with millions (we can all dream), I’ve been trying to start
early and doing my [...]
Spending habits: Can you just change them like this?
I came across this quote on Portfolio.com that i find particular interesting. What happens is the writer talks about promoting financial wellness in his retirement advice to twenty somethings. This is a response from a reader Bryan Keller:
The whole act of saving money is one they relies heavily on actions that run contrary to people’s [...]
The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds
ETFs are a great tool for the average investors. Well, they are fantastic tools, if you live in the US. For Singapore folks, there are ETFs listed on SGX as well as HK stock exchange to choose from as well.
Here in an audio interview at financial sense, the author explains
What are ETFs
What are active ETFs
How [...]
US Consumers:Desperate means to raise cash
I was away for 2.5 weeks. Not a long time, but to me it is an eternity away from the market. I came back to see the same state of affairs in the US consumer market as it was if not worse then i left.
This article is interesting. While i empathize with the people feature [...]
Treasure in Hougang Mall Library
Did my dental checkup and cleaning at Hougang Mall. The mall has vastly improved since CapitalMall Trust took over. It is now shopable even if you are not looking for you daily necessities.
I went to the library and was surprised that it wasn’t as packed as SengKang’s Compass Point. I was even more surprised to [...]
The Retirement Calculator from Hell
By William J. Bernstein
Most of you have seen the nifty retirement software available from the likes of Vanguard and T. Rowe Price which provides the mathematical muscle to help you plan your retirement. Input your retirement age, expected lifespan, required annual income, rate of inflation and investment return, and hey presto, you find out that [...]
Straight From The Source: Larry Swedroe
Larry Swedroe has established a reputation as one of the clearest thinkers and best writers in the field of passive investing. Swedroe is the author of many books, including Wise Investing Made Simple: Tales To Enrich Your Fortune, which hit the bookstands last Monday.
“Larry has written some of the most sensibly and clearly written books [...]
Why Bernanke’s Critics Have it All Wrong
I thought this is a good article if i wanna show both sides of the coin. Found this through SGfunds and from Yahoo. Do read and tell me what you think.
by Jeremy Siegel, Ph.D.
The recent financial meltdown has brought a torrent of criticism onto our central bank officials. “Rookie Mistake,” cried Bloomberg News. “Flawed [...]
First Consumers, now Structured Financing: The Ongoing Impact of the Housing Sector (and who is to blame?)
By Barry Ritholtz
August 24, 2007
With John Mauldin enjoying the beginning of his summer sight-seeing in Europe, its up to us worker drones to address the various goings on the capital markets.
Today, we will take a quick review of the impact of the ongoing fallout from the Housing market on the consumer, and look at what [...]
