One Important Thing To Remember in Falling Markets

24 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed Thursday’s (20 June 2013) session at 3,133. That represents a 9.6% decline from the index’s 52-week high of 3,465 that it hit almost a month ago on 22 May 2013. The US Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing programme, essentially the incessant running of the ...
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A Savings Account that Yields 8.5%?

21 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Some have the belief that socking money away in the bank is the best way to grow their money. With the banks now giving a paltry interest of 0.05% to 1%, a savings of $100,000 put in an account yielding 1% for the next 10 years only gives us $110,462. Hardly enough. When we take into account the invisible-money-eating ...
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Sit-On-Your-Ass Investing

20 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A research paper was published in 2005 entitled, “Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks”. In it, an analysis of 286 penalty kicks in top leagues and championships worldwide were done. It was found out that during penalty kicks, 1/3 of the time, the penalty taker shoots ...
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Why We Shouldn’t Check Our Portfolios Daily

17 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s common for investors in the stock market to check their portfolios almost daily. In fact, I’ll dare to wager that there’ll be an over whelming majority who knows exactly where their portfolio is almost every day. The thing is, fixing our eyes on the stock market’s daily gyrations in a bid to know ...
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Do You Have Enough in Your CPF for Retirement?

3 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Mr. Han Fook Kwang, a Managing Editor at The Straits Times, wrote an article titled Life starts at 60, how long will funds last? in the latest Sunday edition (02 June 2013) of the widely-circulated newspaper. He touched on a topic I pay dear attention to, which as the article’s title suggests, deals ...
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Can Long-Term Investing Work?

30 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Proponents of long-term investing would cite examples such as the 6% per-year growth rate in the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) since 1988 to show that it works. On the other hand, critics can pull out a chart of the STI showing its level from May 2007 till now and point out that the index has gone ...
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The Five Richest Countries In The World

29 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The recession has taken a toll on economies around the world, from driving down standards of living to sending unemployment to record levels. Through it all, however, some nations’ people have emerged stronger and wealthier than ever before. Is there a trend among the richest countries on the planet, ...
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Are Singapore Investors Getting The Short End of the Stick with Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds?

27 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
At Motley Fool Singapore, we champion investing in individual shares of solidly profitable companies as one of the best ways to build long-term wealth. But, there are also other ways to invest in the stock market. Passive index trackers like the SPDR Straits Times Index Exchange Traded Fund (SGX: ES3) ...
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Why Being Smart Does Not Guarantee Investing Success

20 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In Singapore, we’re constantly being judged on our cranial capacity in schools starting from a young age. Parents of primary school children and most working adults (that’s me!) would be very familiar with the Gifted Education Programme (GEP), which aims to “develop intellectual rigour, humane values ...
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How to Pick the Right Fund

7 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There are many ways to go about investing in the stock market. We can achieve market-like returns simply by investing in index trackers. In Singapore, there are the SPDR Straits Times Index Exchange Traded Fund (SGX: ES3) and Nikko AM Singapore STI Exchange Traded Fund (SGX: G3B) which tries to mimic ...
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