Thursday, December 31, 2020

What happened in 2020?

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As today would be the last trading day of the year, Stocks Cafe will be summarising the results of 2020 for the ERM portfolio tonight, after...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Personal Update #4 : What am I reading ?

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  I wanted to read something semi-serious so I noticed that Kinokuniya seems to be promoting this book entitled There's no such thing as...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Personal Update #3 : Hobbies and Leisure

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  I was able to squeeze in a little bit of computer gaming this holiday season, which is quite unusual given my schedule. But I really wante...
Friday, December 25, 2020

Thoughts on my 46th Birthday.

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  I'm 46 years old today so that means its nine years before I get access to my CPF money! Before I talk about the upcoming year, I took...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Personal Update #2 : Personal Finances

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The second instalment of my personal update is on my Personal Finances. This will not be a detailed discussion of my investments as I prefer...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Personal Update #1 : Learning Goals

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  After completing the Quantitative Finance class conducted by EDHED Business School, things rapidly went downhill for me as I tried to comp...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Letter to Batch 18 of the Early Retirement Masterclass

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Dear Students of Batch 18, It’s been a great honour and privilege to be able to conduct a 2-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you.  The ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Happiness and FIRE

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  When I made my first $100,000 and published my first book over a decade ago, the level of sophistication in self-help was not too high and...
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Monday, December 14, 2020

Why guys get defensive when women accumulate $100,000 at a young age

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It's almost a tradition or a cost of entry for a financial blogger to talk about how they attained their first $100,000 as some kind of ...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

What, IMHO, is the most important thing about Entrepreneurship?

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Just the other day, something funny happened to me.  A few days ago, I was supposed to meet a friend for lunch at SMU, after meeting me, she...
Monday, December 07, 2020

Social Escorts can benefit from learning about FIRE

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  As it is the holiday season,  I've decided to change my reading diet into something less dry. I've chosen to read one of my favour...
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Thursday, December 03, 2020

Is optionality overrated?

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  In my previews, I get a lot of questions on whether I teach options. Apparently, the number of advertisement bombardments from investment ...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Are you leveraging enough in your lives ?

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Todd Tresidder has written quite a number of books on personal finance and I was fortunate to find one copy on leverage in the Woodlands Reg...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

From Chai Png to Haidilao

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  In case readers are not aware, I stopped being frugal when it comes to food quite a while ago. My 20s were basically all about eating chai...
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Random perspectives on emigration

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I don't have very much to talk about today, I just want to share some friendly perspectives on emigration. I had an update from an old f...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

ERM Community Webinar - 24th November 2020 7.30pm

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  On 24th November 2020 at 7.30pm, the ERM Community would conduct another Community webinar that is open to the public. We will be doing on...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Money is the Modern Equivalent of Monkhood

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There is a spiritual dimension of Financial Independence Retire Early or FIRE that mirrors Eastern Religions that is hinted in Naval Ravikan...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Singapore's problem is encouraging Lifelong learning for "Green" personalities

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This week I did something unthinkable in my 20s - I switched universities just before completing a course specialization.  As it turned out,...
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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Republic Polytechnic Talk : After-Action Review

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At 4.30pm yesterday afternoon, I gave a 1-hour talk to students of Republic Polytechnic. This talk was attended by a decent number of lectur...