Don’t Just Do Something – Sit there!

26 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There’s a view of the stock market that the road to success lies in frequent activity. You need to be a market savant, being able to spot trends among the mass of squiggly lines moving up and down the computer screen with each passing second. The problem is, more often than not, the faster you act, the ...
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What to Do When the Price of Fishball Noodles Increases

22 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In March, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said that inflation in February had grown by 4.9% compared to a year ago. The rise in the inflation figure was due in large part to an increase in housing and private transport vehicle prices. Last week, the Straits Times had a headline that went “Hawker ...
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Why You Should Manage Your Own CPF Money

11 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Central Provident Fund Investment Scheme (CPFIS) was set up to allow investors to grow their money at higher rates than the CPF’s guaranteed return of 2.5% to 4.0%, depending on the account. And to do that, investors are given up to 298 funds (as of Dec 2012) that are involved with different asset ...
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One Important Thing to Look Out for in Funds

9 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
At Motley Fool Singapore, we are pretty much advocates for investing in the stock market through individual companies, and believe that the best person to do so would be you. But, there is a pretty good case to be made for investors who prefer to invest in the stock market through other means. Investors ...
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What to Do When Your Investments are Not Working Out

8 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
When we invest, we naturally hope to end every year wealthier than the start of it and to beat the overall stock market in the process. Why else would we want to spend precious time and effort to study individual companies for investment if we can just achieve market-like returns with minimal effort ...
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Making ETFs Safer

30 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Nikko Asset Management Asia Limited, the fund manager of the Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF (SGX: G3B), recently announced that the Exchange Traded Fund will undergo a change in its investment focus with effect from 29 April 2013. Index trackers aim to match the performance of the index they are meant to ...
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Beat The Market With These Two Shares

28 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Wouldn’t it be great if you could beat the market with just two shares? Truth is, you could, if you wanted, beat the market with just one share. That is provided you are willing to bet the farm on a single winning stock. But, I suspect, most of us would admit that would be quite a risky strategy, which ...
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Three Dangerous Stock Market Myths

25 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Stock trading has been around for hundreds of year. The earliest stock exchanges, which bought and sold grain, quickly expanded to other commodities. These early deals were carried out in the house of a man called Van der Bourse, which is why stock markets are sometimes called bourses today. Even though ...
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The Truth About Market Timing

22 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There is a well-known saying in investing that we should ‘buy-low, sell-high’. But often we see the opposite from investors around the world. A recent headline in The Business Times said: “Investors flee gold funds for broad commodity ETFs”. The article went on to say that US$4.8b, which had been dedicated ...
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A Dangerous Way to Invest

20 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
This is the story of Andy Zaky. Andy Zaky was a law graduate from UCLA who started making a name for himself in 2008 by forecasting Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings, and subsequently its product sales and share price movements with eerie accuracy. He eventually developed such a large following that he ...
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