Long-Term Investors Win

20 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There’s a view among many market participants that the way to profit from the stock market is to be able to nimbly dance in and out of stocks. They’ll invest just before stocks start ticking upwards, and sell just before it crashes down. That looks great on paper and sounds like a seductive idea. But ...
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The Remarkable Dividends of Singapore’s Banks

18 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 was a traumatic event for the global economy. Credit markets were frozen, stock markets were hit, and plenty of companies saw sales and earnings plummet. The hardest hit of all were likely to be the banks. In particular, Western banks such as Citigroup, Bank of ...
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One Great Bank You’ve Never Heard Of and What We Can Learn from It

6 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In all fairness, if you live in Sweden, or have stayed there for some time, there’s probably almost no chance you haven’t heard of Svenska Handelsbanken AB. But for those who’ve never stepped foot on the Scandinavian country, you’ll probably have never heard of one of Sweden’s largest banks. It’s a shame, ...
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One Thing I’m Grateful for About Singapore’s Banks

5 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I’ve lately been enamoured with one particular statistic: the number of bank failures in the USA. Can you take a quick guess (no peeking below!) as to how many banks have failed since October 2000? A hundred? How about 200? Turns out, 515 banks have failed in the USA in that time. Source: FDIC For me, ...
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Two Key Numbers to Understand Banks

5 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In Singapore, the banking industry plays a vital role in our economy. Think of it as a funnel by which funds can be channelled from savers and investors into other people, projects, organisations, and companies that require capital to build a better tomorrow. In addition, the local banks, comprising ...
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The Truth about the Dangerous World of Investing

4 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I recently came across a two-year old article by The Economist titled Another year of living dangerously. In it contained a line that read, “This was supposed to be a stress-free year for the global economy.” I was drawn to this by my American colleague Morgan Housel in his own article titled The World ...
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How To Make Money From Banks

1 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There was a time when banks could do no wrong. Everything they touched would somehow turn to gold. Today, however, many banks can do no right. At almost every turn they are confronted by regulators ready impose another fine, slap on an additional penalty or enact another piece of legislation to clip ...
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Should I Buy Blue Chips At 52-Week Highs?

23 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Something quite exciting is happening in the Singapore market. Despite all the talk of doom and gloom in the global economy, a preponderance of shares has recently been hitting 52-week highs. A quick trawl of the Singapore market reveals a plethora of shares that are within 10% of their 52-week highs. ...
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A Dangerous Way to Invest

20 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
This is the story of Andy Zaky. Zaky was a law graduate from UCLA who started making a name for himself in 2008 by forecasting Apple’s earnings, and subsequently its product sales and share price movements, with eerie accuracy. He eventually developed such a large following that he offered a paid-newsletter ...
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Pearls of Wisdom From an Investing Legend

20 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
John Bogle might not be a household name in our corner of the world in Singapore, but the man is a bona fide investing legend. 39 years ago, he started the Vanguard Group, a company whose focus was on bringing passively-managed index funds with low expenses to the world. Ever since then, Vanguard and ...
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