A few months ago, I wrote about fruit juice vending machine franchises after attending FLA 2025, and why I personally wouldn’t put my money into one. Franchised or not, vending machines have stayed in the news for a very different reason since then, and this time the numbers are a lot bigger. In a recent…
For many senior executives, retirement isn’t about fading into irrelevance or chasing endless rounds of golf. It’s about freedom. The freedom to choose how you spend your time, who you work with, and what kind of impact you still want to make. That’s where fractional leadership comes in. Instead of walking away with decades of…
It has been almost 6 months since I’ve transitioned my cash investments rom a robo-advisor managed investment portfolio to a self-managed model and I finally found some time to share their performances so far. Performance of my cash investment portfolio The market has been bearish for the entire year so it’s needless to say that…
If you could use one word to describe 2020, what word would you use? For me, that word is, grateful. In a year where the pandemic created major upheavals in both the financial markets and our daily lives, I’m grateful that the habits that I created for myself around personal finance and lifestyle over the…
When it’s time to recontract our Singtel Fibre Broadband internet plan, how do you find the best recontract deal? I imagine you would start by browsing through the websites of all the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Singapore and comparing the plans that are relevant to you, deciding whether you should recontract with your current…
NTUC Income just launched a viral marketing video that complements their recent study on the Sandwich Generation and how Singaporeans view their financial future. I know it’s becoming viral because my friends who aren’t great at financial planning started posting the video in Facebook. In case you’ve not watched it before, here’s the video. Warning:…