Retirement Planning
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
