Portfolio Management
Free Online Investment Stock Portfolio Tracker Spreadsheet
Why I created this I began messing and creating Stock Portfolio Tracker 2 months ago to see if I can create portfolio tracker for keeping track and monitoring stocks. Why do we need another portfolio spreadsheet? Well I have a few criteria and objectives: As little lock in as possible I have blogged about in [...]
How to get Singapore/international stock market prices on your Android phone: Bloomberg App
If you are an international investor like me, most of the application that you have on the iOS or Android are more catered towards US centric people. They pull data from finance sites like Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, which essentially are US biased. What happens if you want a really puny cap company like OKP [...]
How you can take an insurance based approach to portfolio management
Dylan Grice wrote a very comprehensive article @ Investment Insights on a Top Down vs Bottom up portfolio manager and the risk involve in both. Its rather lengthy as well. A few interesting thing caught my attention. Hindsight Bias: The classic study on hindsight bias was done by Fischhoff and Beyth5 who asked their students [...]
Minibond better explained
Tan Kin Lian’s blog has a contribution that further explains the whole Minibond situation: The name “Minibonds” itself is a misleading word for investors. Whatever money you have invested in this “Minibonds” are not invested in bonds of the six reference banks or bonds issued by Lehman Brothers. This is how it works. Lehman Brothers [...]
Dual Currency Deposits: The trade off
Many people like their currency deposits for the high interest rates compare to the idiotic ones we can get in Singapore fixed deposits. However, the recent currency changes might have really adverse impact on these “safe” deposits. Tan Kin Lian has this to say [horror story]: This type of investment allows you to bet on [...]
