Saturday, March 29, 2025

So we're all BDSM professionals now?

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  A while ago, during lunch, a pal suggested that Dr Wealth's marketing approach was very neutral and bland and may thus lack the abilit...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Letter to Batch 37 of the Early Retirement Masterclass

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Dear Students of Batch 37, It's been a great honour and privilege to conduct a 5-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you. Just like th...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Don't let the wrong finance ideas live rent free in your head

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  Those who have been following the news can imagine what might happen next. All thanks to a message from an influencer, spooked folks will ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

The case for having no Integrated Shield Plan

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  Ok, I need to close the loop for the last article for my mum's hospitalization. Thank you for all the well wishes and very important f...
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Saturday, March 08, 2025

Fiscal marksmanship and planning for medical expenses

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  I finally managed to get some information on my mum's hospitalization. In brief, my mum had a bad fall and hit her head while under a ...
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Sunday, March 02, 2025

About adult literacy in Singapore

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  I was supposed initially to talk about my mum's medical expenses, but the Singapore Government was not in a rush to bill us as they ar...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Three businesses getting disrupted right now.

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  Every time a semester winds down, I take stock of possible futures and think about the possibility of getting into new businesses with the...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Happy Valentine's Day ! Keep working on yourself, ok ?

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  Sometimes, I ask myself why I keep doing Valentine's Day articles. Is it because some of my readers actually enjoy reading it? So this...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

Do you plan for higher taxes in the future?

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  If you read books by US financial planners, you will find a massive gap in financial planning skills between local and overseas. My genera...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake !

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  I've spent most of my Chinese New Year accompanying my mother at Woodlands Health, and I'm happy to say that she has recovered mos...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Why an 8% safe rate of return can be better than a 4% one ?

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  First, a shout-out to friends and fans who wished my mum a speedy recovery. Yes, she is well on the road to getting better. As for me, I...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Becoming.a Main Street Millionaire

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  I’m blogging from Woodland’s Health, a hospital in the North where my mum is recovering from a bleeding in the brain after a nasty fall la...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Dealing with a crisis - no updates on this blog for a while

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 Last weekend, I found my mum looking confused and unable to form coherent sentences and I ended up getting an ambulance to send her to a ho...
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Sunday, January 05, 2025

Is it time to make peace with commissioned financial advisors?

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  AS 2025 rolls by, one of my priorities is to come up with new slides that are more relevant to the marketing of my Early Retirement Master...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Did you make any resolutions for this year ?

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  I've only recently learned how fast time flies for middle-aged folks. The science behind this is that our brain neurons fire much slow...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Harsh Truths about Masters Degrees and the folks who have them.

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  About 3 weeks ago, The Economist published some earnings returns to folks with Master's degrees and measured the value added of these ...