Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The Model Thinker #5 : The Normal Distribution

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The normal distribution curve can be used to assign probabilities to values. Every data point can be condensed into two numbers, the mean ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

On employee engagement, productivity, and the death of a Singapore Son.

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One of my favourite bloggers, TACOMOB has not only made a come back after taking a long break from his blog, he showed up for my preview thi...
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Friday, January 25, 2019

Should you buy REITs based on a "Good" Sponsor ? Part 2

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Here's a nasty thought experiment. Suppose on one hand, you have a team that is a sample of RI, ACS and Hwa Chong students. Their aver...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The Model Thinker #4 : Modelling Human Actors

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The first serious chapter on modelling covers human actors. There are two general approaches to modelling a human actor. a) The Ration...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

When financial bloggers take a break

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This is a pretty rough week. First 15WW has expressed a desire to take a break. You can read about it here . Then yesterday I received n...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

An Earnest Conversation - Dealing with posts by commissioned sales professionals that you may disagree with

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Money Maverick wrote a really sweet post which showed his human side. I would like to invite everyone to read it here. While you don...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

The Model Thinker #3 : Aristotle's categories

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I can argue that Aristotle is the philosopher who inspired all of quantitative investing. Even before the establishment of modern financial ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

What does the Finance Industry and the Social Development Unit have in common ?

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Until the Millenials developed Tinder, dating was not a straight-forward process for guys in my generation. An entire generation of men we...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

How to take a crap on quantitative backtesting.

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With the efforts I have been gaining to show up some misconceptions about investing in local stocks, I would have thought that I should be b...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2019

The Model Thinker #2 : Seven uses of models

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In this second installation of The Model Thinker, I will talk about seven uses of models. The author uses the REDCAPE acronym to illustr...
Sunday, January 06, 2019

Your CPF is like a Schizophrenic Prostitute.

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The inspiration for this article started when I suggested to another financial blogger to write a CPF article and pepper it with sexual r...
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Friday, January 04, 2019

The Model Thinker #1 : The Wisdom Hierarchy

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As we enter 2019, I will also be beginning a new series covering one really good book that I would like to digest very slowly. After some ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Watch-outs and predictions in 2019

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One advantage of being a Christmas baby is that I get to reflect on the year on Christmas Day so it is possible for me to talk exclusive...
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Sunday, December 30, 2018

Failing to spend is DEFINITELY NOT spending to fail.

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The holiday season is a time to spend more money, but this holiday season my spending was a little impaired. I was supposed to spend m...
Friday, December 28, 2018

The Problem of Financial Knowledge

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Here's a better depiction of the Financial Knowledge stack I proposed last week after reading an article on Psychology today. Based on...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Expectations for my 44th year.

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Ok, with my birthday celebrations with my family over and the presents all opened, the next step would be to start thinking about what I h...
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