I’ve been writing extensively on pursuing the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement and working towards retiring by 50 myself. It can be really tiring as my journey remains a work-in-progress with many years to go. Sometimes, I do ask myself whether it’s worth the effort to continue on this journey. If we look at…
The Invest section of The Sunday Times published an article recently, encouraging readers to keep tabs on their cash flow. They also included a Financial Health Test in the article. As I don’t always read newspapers, I only found out about this when Brian Halim wrote about it on his blog, taking the test to…
Has the market correction since February kept you up at night for the past few months? After investing in a bull market for such a long time, some of us may have already forgotten what a bear market looks like. You had two choices. Either sell off your stocks, realise your losses and hoard cash,…
At the time of this article, we have been working from home for close to 1.5 months. For me, it’s been close to 2 months of working from home as my employer started our work-from-home protocol weeks ahead of the government announcement. How are you doing? It can be very depressing being cooped up at…
Since 2014, I’ve been topping up my Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) account and investing through OCBC’s Blue Chip Investment Plan (BCIP), buying into Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF stocks each month in a dollar cost averaging manner. For a lazy investor like me, this works really well because just like my cash investments through AutoWealth,…
The biggest topic trending on the streets for the past few days has been the Wuhan Coronavirus that has infected thousands and spread to multiple countries so far. I’m not going to post any statistics here because those numbers are meaningless and you should check official sources for real-time statistics. One of the major challenges…