Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Equity Management #7 : Taking on more risk from a benchmark portfolio.

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Most investors are normally fixated at their returns from ordinary asset classes. You take on the risk of equity for 8% returns and moderate...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

The Three Faces of Poverty in Modern Life.

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In order to become richer, sometimes it is helpful to understand poverty. When Thomas Piketty published Capital in the 21st Century , ...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Equity Management #6 : A unified approach to engineering portfolios.

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Ok, we're moving into a new section of the book which talks about portfolio management. The basic summary is quite simple - a unified ap...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Personal Update

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There has been no article on Equity Management last week because I as getting into the deep end of the book which talks about selecting the ...
Friday, March 17, 2017

You don't get to hack the CPF, the CPF gets you hack you !

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Ok, it is time to summarise yesterday's proceedings. In case you guys are wondering, when we conduct our talks, we don't really do r...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Equity management #5 : The Small Firm Effect

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Some investors like investing in small firms because it is an area where the natural strengths of a retail investor can really shine. Inst...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

FInancial Blogger's CPF Talk : Some details.

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For this upcoming talk , we employed a very lax marketing schedule so right now we are about one week away and we have only 20% of our tic...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Next Talk : CPF Optimization for Retirement

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You can now start to get your tickets to the next event that is held by BIGScribe. This time I will be joined by superstar financial ...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Equity Management #4 : On Market Anomalies

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Market anomalies would not normally creep into a discussion between value investors but their existence demonstrates the possibility of maki...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

The joys of being temporarily Malaysian.

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With the ringgit at an all-time low, I went into Malaysia for a few hours with my mum during my mid-term exams. We did not venture far into ...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Equity Management #3 : The Dividend Discount model is overrated

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One of the fundamental building blocks taught in the CFA is the dividend discount model or DDM. In Chapter 4 of the Equity Management book, ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

The Singaporeans you will meet in the Economy of the Future.

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Perhaps it is time for a semi-serious look into the four kinds of Singaporeans you will meet in the future.  I call this is new 4P model ...
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Sunday, February 19, 2017

CFE post : How SMU can fit into the future economy.

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Yay ! Mid-terms are over. Today, I wanted to combine several posts into one. Of recent note, SMU has been on the radar of social media a...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Equity Management #2 : What strategies are the real deal when investing in stocks ?

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[ This article is based on Chapter 3 of Equity Management by Jacobs and Levy ] It is not easy to tell who is the real deal when they about...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Valentine's Day : A Celebration of the Ordinary and of Loneliness.

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This Valentine's Day is a good one for internal reflection. I had morning classes and had front seat rows to observe LLB Law studen...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Quick Personal Update : End of CNY

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Just like that CNY is over. I am hunkering down for a week of 3 mid-term exams and my blogging will slow over the next few days. a) Person...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Equity Management #1 : Ten investment insights which matter

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I thought I should look for a more advanced book after reviewing Tim Feriss' Tools for Titans and have settle on Jacobs and Levy's ...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Chinese New Year as Life Audit.

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Today is the 7th day of Chinese New Year and I would to talk about family visits between relatives. Exchanging notes with my younger cl...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Channel 8 Rant : Why be a Good man when you can be a Great man !

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A Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog. I've been silent this new year prior to writing this article because I don't...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Modern trends in self-help and personal improvement

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I started reading self-help books sometime during my JC years, quite a while before Robert Kiyosaki incited me to really take possession of ...
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