Growing your tree of prosperity

Growing your Tree of Prosperity is an introductory investment guide written specifically for Singaporeans who wish to take their first step towards financial independence.

Friday, June 30, 2017

Personal Update : Career transitioning continues.

Ok, as I have just completed another round of internship, it is time to take a break and go for a staycation in Sentosa over the weekend, so...

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Equity Management #18 : Mysteries of short selling stocks.

Ok, now that I have established a system for margin trading, it is time to move on and consider this other system which I have always been c...

Monday, June 26, 2017

The importance of Cultural Capital when changing careers

This blog has in the past discussed two forms of capital. Financial Capital represents whatever wealth you have in your personal balance ...

Friday, June 23, 2017

Equity Management #17 : More random thoughts on margin investing.

Here's an update. This week on Wednesday the kind folks of Maybank Kim Eng bought me and two other finance bloggers to lunch to ap...

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Investors Exchange 2017 : 50 Shades of Dividends Investing !

I'm really excited to talk about our next event which will feature 7 speakers and last one entire Saturday afternoon on 29 July 2017....

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Spending that counts - What we know from the latest surveys on the rich.

I am currently reading The Sum of Small Things : A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and it looks like I would ha...

Friday, June 16, 2017

One thing modern workers need to do to stop digging their graves.

This is going to be a short article as I look forward to paying off some sleep debt. Once of our upcoming talks in August was supposed to ...

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Equity Management #16 : Troll Portfolio.

It is interesting that some folks who I did not expect to follow my blog are observing this margin trading experiment so here's anot...

Sunday, June 11, 2017

It gets worse - I got margin called after one day of trading !

This is so hilarious, I must share what happened to me yesterday for everyone to read. Yesterday at around 1pm, I received an email from M...

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Inconspicuous consumption and the theory of platforms.

I felt that a recent article on AEON sums up my approach to life for the past 2 decades. Today I'd just like to talk about platforms,...

Thursday, June 08, 2017

Equity Management #15 : Finally managed to start margin trading today !

Once again, my Equity Management textbook is stuck in my condo but I'm staying at my parent's place tonight so I don't have any ...

Sunday, June 04, 2017

Some insights from "Rich People Problems"

This is not a book review and I am not going to spoil this story as I think that if a Singaporean wants to read a piece of fiction, he ...

Friday, June 02, 2017

What can we learn from Male Gaming Hermits ?

This is probably the only local financial blog which talks about the latest phenomenon in the US that may already be a mainstream lifest...

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Equity Management #14 : Starting positions of my leveraged account.

This is going to be a short post. Following up on my previous post, I have managed to set up a margin trading account with Maybank Kim Eng...

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Discourse on Avocado sandwiches betrays Gen-X's own financial insecurity.

Every generation likes to poke fun at the generation which succeeds them. Baby Boomers were particularly cruel to Gen-X when we were gr...

Friday, May 26, 2017

On scarcity, $10,000-a-month internships and capping graduates to 30% of the Singapore population.

Given that I turned down five-figure a month job to carry on with my $500 a month internship, I thought I should share my perspective on $10...

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Equity Management #13 : How to think about leverage.

We are at Chapter 27 of the book even though this is the 13th installation of the series. For the reader's sanity (and mine), I have ski...

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Some insights from Psychology - More loose ends from the previous talk.

There is one loose-end from the last talk. Apparently, my presentation slides were not the latest version which I sent to the company admi...

Saturday, May 20, 2017

JD Aftermath #6 : LLBs

Interactions with LLBs are the fundamental difference between SMU and NUS's approach towards legal education for mid-career professi...

Friday, May 19, 2017

Personal thoughts after last night's talk on Stress-free investing

Ok, I've finally recovered from last night's talk. Let's talk about what happened last night from my perspective. Last night, ...

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