Frequent readers would know that Mickey J doesn’t like to spend a lot of time making investment decisions and prefer to keep things simple. When I wrote my recent article on creating a multi-asset retirement portfolio with a decumulation investment strategy, I had to do a lot of research on the topic in the process….
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…
In recent news, there was a report about banks experiencing an increase in the number of home loan refinancing applications. This was because banks have lowered their interest rates on loans that are pegged to the Singapore Inter-Bank Offered Rate (SIBOR). SIBOR is the rate at which banks borrow from one another and because of…
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…
I’ve heard Mr CPF, Loo Cheng Chuan speak on multiple occasions so far. In his recent talk at an event organised by Endowus, he mentioned a very important lesson about financial independence that was rarely highlighted in articles about him. Who is Loo Cheng Chuan? In case you have not heard of Loo Cheng Chuan,…
Update: A reader was curious how much Daniel had in is CPF Special Account in 2015 before he started topping up his CPF account. Daniel had $64,374 in his Special Account when he started. Last Wednesday, Daniel, a 34-year-old Singaporean wrote a post in Seedly’s Facebook group to share how he managed to achieve the…
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