Thursday, August 29, 2019

Do women prefer nice guys or rich guys ?

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Today we are going to discuss, with actual scientific evidence, what do women actually prefer, nice guys or rich guys. This question remin...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #3 - Marketing : Customer Service and Customer Focus

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As we continue with our exploration of marketing, we are now dealing with some key issues of customer service and customer focus. a) Mos...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

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A friend is undergoing social media detoxification and is no longer following up on interesting developments in the personal finance space...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

Breaking the Chains of Meritocracy

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While I was never a precariat, growing up in a landed property estate made me very sensitive to being looked down upon. Even though I had ...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #2 : Different Schools of Thought in Marketing

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So we're onto our first chapter which is on Marketing. Marketing was the reason why I refused to do an MBA 15 years ago because I only...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Letter to Batch 6 of Early Retirement Masterclass students.

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We have just concluded Batch 6 of the Early Retirement Masterclass. Now the momentum for the classes is picking up and I have another sess...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

When your Singapore Dream dies, what will you do ?

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A man in his 40s experiences the coming of the Autumn of his life. His parents are getting old and his children still need his support. H...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #1 : Universal Business Formula

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If you want to summarize the running of a business into just one simple formula,  it should look like this : 1) Revenue - Costs = Operat...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Stocks Cafe : A Nifty Portfolio Management Tool

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It's quite hard to find a good collaborator in this field. Fortunately, my working relationship with Evan Koh has taught me all the good...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

Harsh truths about local degree programs #2 - The Final Word

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Before I begin... Ok, the first installation of this article went quietly viral. While there was no discussion on this blog, but the ...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Online lecture and tool demonstrations

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Today I started teaching myself Camtasia and Video editing so that I can start sharing free lectures to the public as well as online tool de...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2019

New Column : MBA in a Nutshell

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I never believed in the magical career-enhancing powers of an MBA. Even as a first year Systems Analyst in P&G, I was able to gain exp...
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Sunday, August 04, 2019

Harsh truths about local degree programmes

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One of the really powerful ideas in Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen is the idea that your first degree will be a major driver that d...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

Investing and The Barnum Effect

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Funny things happen to Dr. Wealth part-time staff when they support our preview events. Yesterday, one of my colleagues was telling me a...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Personal Update

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Thought I'd just share some random thoughts given that have just completed a major 29-week book review. a) My dad is still at hospi...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

The Model Thinker (Final Episode) - Income Inequality

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I can't believe that we've arrived at the final chapter of this 29-week long exercise. In this final chapter, the author applies...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Is it time for SIAMFIRE ?

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I am an outlier Singaporean man because I do not go to Bangkok to hire prostitutes. In fact, my effect is so powerful that my friends wh...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Can your money ever be happy ?

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When reviewing the financial literature of the moment, one of the questions  I ask myself is whether a particular book or story can dethr...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

The Model Thinker #27 - Rugged Landscape Models

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Imagine if we were to run a project to determine the optimal point of leverage for an investment portfolio. If an investor employs too low...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

The inevitable rise of the Second Fiddle Husband.

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In a better age, our daughters should be looking for Second Fiddle Husbands. If you examine the 2017 data on local universities, out of ...
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