Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #7 : What kind of equity investor are you ?

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Today's article is short as we're moving into equity investing territory and I don't want to burden readers with too man equatio...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

The things that a Model Singapore Citizen has to do ?

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Just some personal sharing today... So last Sunday my wife finally managed to earn her Singaporean citizenship. It was a rough journey ...
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

Ten Year Series Mentality Amongst Investors

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I just experienced how tough it is to be in the investment education business. Like Brian Halim, I was invited to TUB's value investin...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #6 : On the costs of trading.

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Some folks wrote to me concerning whether my back-testing models incorporate transaction costs. As of today, I kept the settings on transact...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Why finance bloggers are not the prophesied heroes that you are looking for.

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This post started out with Whatsapp discussion between friends who examined the difference between paper generals and entrepreneurs. T...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017

It is time to harbour some doubts about the STI ETF.

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It is now about the right time to start casting doubt on the STI ETF. At this time, a lot of my fellow bloggers have started to integrate th...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #5 : General principles of portfolio construction.

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This books is really shaping up to be something that is good for novices and the experts. Today I will talk about six very basic principle...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

New insights from Ramesh s/o Krishnan v AXA Life Insurance Singapore Pte Ltd

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Sometimes, a lawsuit sheds such interesting insights on the world of financial planning, it becomes impossible to resist making a small ment...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #4 : Backtest Noob musings.

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There are some murmurings that I am emerging as some sort of back-test guru but that cannot be further from the truth. I am still very much ...
Friday, August 11, 2017

National Day Middle Finger Meditations

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It is amazing that a day before National Day, I made an obscure reference to Henry Park and the Law of Attraction responded by giving all...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

How Singaporeans can be their worse enemy !

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Every National Day, I will try to write something to get readers thinking about some important issue they are likely to experience in the fu...
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Saturday, August 05, 2017

Deep REIT investing insights from Investors Exchange 2017

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Sometimes, the good stuff needs to wait until after a seminar is over. As speakers in BIGSCribe events are also investors, we are also par...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #3 : Alpha shenanigans from Investor Exchange 2017

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In today's segment, I'm going to talk about how to incorporate some concepts from hedge fund investing into the talk we just had las...
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Aftermath : Investor Exchange 2017

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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...
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Friday, July 28, 2017

The disruptive potential of Amazon Prime.

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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...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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

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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

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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.

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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...
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Saturday, July 15, 2017

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

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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

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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 ...