Saturday, October 29, 2022

Market Assessment #5 : Old Money vs New Money

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  As we continue our discussion on status groups, for a financial blog, we should learn to distinguish between Old Money and New Money. Old ...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Market Assessment #4 : Why we pursue status ?

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  One topic that a lot of personal finance books rarely discuss is status. Why do people seem to be obsessed with their status and why the p...
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Monday, October 24, 2022

Market Assessment #3 : Are real estate agents worse than FAs ?

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  Some parvenu wannabe on social media, incensed at my loathing for FAs, publicly challenged me to air my views about real estate agents, so...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Market Assessment #2 : Three Singapore Hypocrisies

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  In my last article, I railed about how academics who have nice sinecures funded by tax-payers can label landlords parasites when, to me, c...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Market Assessment #1 : Why Elites hate Landlords

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  These few days have been interesting, I'm seeing a lot of hate for landlords, with some academics calling landlord parasites etc. Some...
Sunday, October 09, 2022

Strategic Retreat #3 : How I assess your man bun

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The week has become more relaxed as I attempt to “study” for my next blood test by eating more strictly and going for more hikes. A pal want...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Strategic Retreat #2 : Details on deleveraging from margin brokers

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  I was meaning to update this blog a while ago, but I think I better wait for all my funds to arrive in my bank account before I piss off m...
Saturday, October 01, 2022

Strategic Retreat #1 : Personal Update

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  I've been receiving a lot of well-wishers over my health condition so I thought I'd share an update. My medical checkup yesterday ...
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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...