To understand the genesis behind this weekly series, click here. ==================== The Market Is Crashing! What Should You Do? As I am writing this article, the Straits Times Index has dipped below the critical 3,000 mark. The market has dropped close to 20% even though a high of 3540 was achieved as recent as April 2015. Honestly, I feel the pain. With a $200,000 portfolio, it does hurt to see the value decrease by $1-$2k almost on a daily basis for the past couple of weeks. But it really doesn’t make sense to “Buy High, Sell Low” right? In these times, instead of allowing ourselves to become emotional and sell everything to stop the pain, one should try to access his/her rational mind. Yes, I am…
Category: Investing
As I begin planning how my 168 hours are going to be spent every week, I realised that I spend alot of my time on the local financial…
First, let’s take a look at how some of the key indices have performed in the past few years. In the past three years, the…
It’s been a year and a half since I last posted an annual update on my portfolio performance. How fast time flies. When I first…
As the portfolio that I publish on this site heads north towards the $300k mark, I do notice my balls shrinking ever so slightly. 😳…
I find it amazing that besides these two posts (here and here) which more or less talks about the merits of purchasing a BTO flat,…
Last Monday, I braved the heavy thunderstorm to visit BullionStar’s shop front near Clarke Quay MRT. Even with an umbrella, I was more than half drenched and…
That’s the ultimate question, isn’t it? 😛 For most of us who are intensely saving our incomes and then investing those savings, it’s all about…
I believe that more often than not, you skim through most of these (not exactly short) posts of mine. I know that because occasionally, I…
Since the listing of CapitaMall Trust in July 2002, the number of REITs has really proliferated in Singapore. After a short span of a decade, there’s…








