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.

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Aftermath : Investor Exchange 2017

Yesterday, BIGScribe had our biggest event for the year and we sold out all 250 tickets for the event. Although I did speak for 20min yest...

Friday, July 28, 2017

The disruptive potential of Amazon Prime.

I was really lucky because on Thursday morning, I was able to slip an order for some groceries from Amazon and was able to experience t...

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #2 : How to be your own Hedge Fund manager.

At this stage of my personal finances, I am edging ever closer to to becoming an accredited investor. But as of now, I am not there yet...

Sunday, July 23, 2017

A Prostitute's Ikigai

One of the points raised by the cruel commenters of Reddit when my article on why Singaporeans do not matter became a top read on this...

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #1 : How to think about market efficiency.

I am writing this article in Raffles City Food Court after a second day of lectures for the Part B Bar preparation exams. Two uncles sitting...

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Equity Management ( Last Episode ) : Time to move on and how to think about GLP.

I'm closing this segment in favour of something more reader-friendly next week based on more interesting hedge fund strategies. I thou...

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

JD Aftermath #7 : Future of the legal industry

Today marks the end of my journey with SMU where I travelled back to campus for Commencement 2017. I wanted to save one last salvo before ...

Sunday, July 09, 2017

Why Singaporeans will not matter in the future.

I thought I'd spend Sunday writing about some of the key conclusions from the book Homo Deus by Yuval Harari within our local conte...

Saturday, July 08, 2017

Equity Management #19 : Dividends strategy versus Deep Value Investing.

During my preparations for the talks at the end of the month ( which is rapidly selling out ! ), I would go to Lee Kong Chian Library and ta...

Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Personal Update : The Road to Commencement and Part B.

Just another personal update as I have just returned from my short holiday which has been spent mostly queuing for Universal Studio rides. ...

Monday, July 03, 2017

Oxley Road Saga : Lee Kuan Yew as an intersubjective phenomenon.

I did not follow closely what was said in Parliament today. The reason is because Singaporean should not be distracted by what is essentiall...

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...

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