My new core investment portfolio: Sharing my thought process curating it
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My new core investment portfolio: Sharing my thought process curating it

In my earlier article, I mentioned that I have closed my 4-year old portfolio with AutoWealth with the intention to create a new portfolio on my own. After months of conceptualising and research, I’ve finally narrowed down my selection of low-cost ETFs and the allocations for each of them. I don’t think my new portfolio…

Personal updates: Career and Money
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Personal updates: Career and Money

It’s been four months since I last updated my blog. That’s how boring personal finance can be when you build a system around your money. At the start of every month, a portion of my salary is systematically moved into saving goals and another portion gets transferred to AutoWealth to be invested in my investment…

What will it take for Bitcoin to truly become a form of payment
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What will it take for Bitcoin to truly become a form of payment

In 2008, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto released his famous Bitcoin whitepaper – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System with the goal of allowing online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution and the entire payment system will be based on cryptographic proof instead of trust. Fast…

Decumulation Investing: How to manage your money after retirement
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Decumulation Investing: How to manage your money after retirement

Most of my readers, including myself are at the age where we are very focused on wealth accumulation and equipping ourselves with the various capital-growth and income-generating assets. Often, we forget to think about how to shift from wealth accumulation to wealth decumulation. This is an important change in our investment strategy when we transition…

How to choose the right cash management solution offered by robo advisors
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How to choose the right cash management solution offered by robo advisors

In the past few days, we’ve seen 2 robo advisors launch their cash management solution products. Today, we have a total of 3 robo advisors (Endowus, MoneyOwl and StashAway) offering investors with cash management solutions to park their cash savings in low risk investments for higher yield that banks are offering. Here’s a complete list…

MoneyOwl just launched WiseSaver and here’s what you should know
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MoneyOwl just launched WiseSaver and here’s what you should know

MoneyOwl has just launched a new product called WiseSaver which aims to provide investors with higher returns than retail deposits, e.g. fixed deposits, Singapore Saving Bonds with no lock-in period for absolute liquidity. By investing through WiseSaver, you are looking at a return of 0.79% p.a., which is the gross indicative yield of the underlying cash…