So you worked hard all year in your job and your manager is happy with your performance. Your reward at the end of the financial year as an employee, will be a monetary reward like a performance or year-end bonus. Congratulations! In the current economy, the extra dollars can be hard to come by and…
Many blogs and websites have wrote about their views about why you should not pay off your home mortgage early. They advocate that you should keep your low interest home mortgage for as long as possible while investing the rest of your money in investment instruments that offer a much higher potential return. In this…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has just released a press release with more details about the Singapore Savings Bonds (SSB) programme that I blogged about earlier. SSB will only be available for individuals – will be launched in the second half of this year (New!) Investors can put in a minimum of S$500, and in subsequent…
The Government and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) are planning to introduce Singapore Savings Bonds (SSB), a new type of bonds to help individual investors get a better return on their savings. “In short, the Singapore Savings Bonds will offer the higher returns of a long-term bond and give what investors call a term premium,…
I have received a request from a reader who was interested in finding out more about buying a property in Cambodia as a foreigner and what are the charges and taxes involved. Below is a summary of the charges and taxes involved in my purchase of a SOHO unit in The Bridge Cambodia. Upon selection of…
Last week, I made a downpayment for my very first property investment in a country that most investors in Singapore have probably never considered before – Cambodia. My property of choice was a freehold small office/home office, also known as SOHO in a 45 storeys tall mixed residential and commercial development mixed development in Phnom Penh…