Monday, October 30, 2017

Titles Culture : A Demon of our own Design.

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I think it's going to be quite vogue to talk about "Titles Culture" in Singapore today. "Titles Culture" happens whe...
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Sunday, October 29, 2017

Next BIGSCRIBE Talk #2 : The fear of leverage.

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I was supposed to be pushing for my next talk but ticket sales picked up over the weekend and we're down to almost single digits wor...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Next BIGSCRIBE Talk : Getting more from REITS workshop.

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My next talk will be held on 22nd November 2017 at Raffles City Tower at 7.30pm. To buy the tickets, please follow this link . My nex...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #15 : Event Driven Investments (Last Installment)

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Going through this books slowly has certainly aided my attempts to be a better investor. I have some academic basis to the leverage portfoli...
Friday, October 20, 2017

The Origin Story of Growing Your Tree of Prosperity

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[ I wanted to share this story because I just read Chris Guillebeau's Side Hustle. Guillebeau was never really an author that I resp...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #14 : Arbitrage

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The final section of the book discusses arbitrage. The formal definition of arbitrage is the achievement of guaranteed profits by simultaneo...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Cutting through the bullshit when assessing investing stories.

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I certainly did not like Narrative and Numbers : The Value of Stories in Business by Aswath Damodaran because it takes a while for his frame...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

The Electric Toothbrush and the Vibrator

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Imagine an electric toothbrush. It is a stick-like object. It contains a motor. You stick into a sensitive part of your body. What...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Efficient inefficient #13 : Managed Futures

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Today’s article is about managed futures but this strategy is really about trend following. The result of this strategy is very credible, wi...
Monday, October 09, 2017

Manufacturing Outrage in the Financial Blogosphere.

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It takes a troll to know when someone is trying to manufacture outrage using the realm of personal finance. Roy Ngerng had a large impact...
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Saturday, October 07, 2017

A Third Class Honours, by any other name...

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In today's new NTU has made a decision to re-label the Third Class Honours designation to something more politically correct. The qu...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

Openness to new experiences and regaining cultural capital.

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I wanted to write something less hardcore for the blog today. One of the side effects about reading about entrepreneurship is that you beg...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #12 : Global Macro Investing, the Rojak of Investing.

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I find Global Macro Investing super confusing because you can't really distinguish the good investors from the bad ones. The Warren Bu...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Should you rubbish your business diploma from a private institution ?

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My last post on private education has received many eyeballs. Unfortunately, it had zero engagement or comments. One possibility is that...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #11 : Quantitative Equity Investing.

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This is the chapter that I have to read really carefully because I am in the process of semi-professionalizing my own portfolio. As it sta...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Agency, Structure and Financial Independence.

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This post was inspired when I read a Masters thesis from a fellow D&D player called Shao Han. The central idea of his thesis is as...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Hard Truths about Private Degrees and Second Chances in Singapore

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Sam Choon-Yin's book entitled  Private Education Singapore : Contemporary Issues and Challenges is a very enlightening read not just...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Fun with other financial bloggers : Debtzilla play-through.

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Hanging out with other financial bloggers has always been fun. Some events we had in the past, like a cosy karaoke session we had a week...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Efficiently Inefficient #10 : Dedicated Short Bias

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Reading the section on dedicated short bias made me want to join a hedge fund that does only short-only positions. The personality of a ty...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

The most important thing in Capitalism is Capital !

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I wanted to do this article because of a spirited discussion with a highly respected VC in Singapore. In this discussion, I argued that capi...
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