Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Time for a Strategic Retreat

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  I had a health scare this week.  After a routine blood test, doctors found that my Lipase level was elevated at 200+. This can be signs of...
Friday, September 23, 2022

ERM Community Event Q32022 - Running your own Robo-advisor

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  Pretty sure by now, folks who regularly attend evening investment webinars are sick and tired of discussions on inflation and the latest s...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

The Three House Investment Plan

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  There are some investment ideas that really enable some really out-of-the-box thinking in this book. My favourite idea is the Three-House ...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Letter to Batch 27 of the Early Retirement Masterclass

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Dear Students of Batch 27, It’s been a great honour and privilege to conduct a 5-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you. We’re getting into...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Who is the Seven Dollar Millionaire ?

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  To maintain thought leadership, I can't stick to just the advanced finance books, I have to read the basic guides as well, and often I...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

On developing new personal hobbies

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  I'm not posting something too hardcore this weekend as I've just returned from Kulai JB where I spent a fun weekend with my in-law...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

BaliFIRE and Geo-arbitrage - The case of Jean Voronkova

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  RGS girls see themselves as "daughters of a better age".  Sadly, we live in the Age of Incels, where anonymous trolls seem to be...
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Sunday, September 04, 2022

Overemployment as a method to achieve your FIRE ambitions

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  I lost an interesting bet lately.  The structure of the bet I made was this :  Which will be gone first, s377a of the Penal Code or SAP ed...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Why we need to resist the idea of SAP Polytechnics and SAP Universities.

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  Of late, I've been catching up with secondary school pals to organize dinners with our secondary school teachers. With nostalgic remin...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

On Wild Problems

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  As I run a programme that is highly dependent on number crunching by computers, I'm fully aware that there are a class of problems tha...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

FIRE is a good servant but bad master.

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I had the good fortune to received a message on Linkedin from Keith Yap.  He wrote this, and I'm posting it here because somehow he coul...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Does FIRE subvert conventional ideas of work and finances ? WTF !

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  I don't know whether to laugh or to cry, his guy called Keith Yap, who seems to work in the Government, referenced my CNA article, and...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

On Singapore's elusive third gear lifestyle

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  Every National Day, I want to talk about emigration. But this year it seems that many influencers and bloggers have started to beat me to ...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

The best is yet to be - My adventures at ACS Independent

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  It is good that investment trainers to do some pro-bono by visiting secondary schools and presenting to students. If you're lucky, som...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Keep discretionary expenses to things that suit your personality

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  Nick Maggiulli's Just Keep Buying  was highly recommended by friends and some readers of this blog and I enjoyed the book immensely. W...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Thinking and lifestyle design using real options and annuities

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This post came about because of MissFITFI's podcast with the owner of Saturday Kids. You can listen to the podcast here. I want to focu...
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