What We Can Learn About Investing From Monopoly

10 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Monopoly has been a popular game for almost a century and there are good reasons for it. In my opinion, it is one of the best games for teaching our children – and maybe even ourselves – about finance and investing. Have Cash on Hand In Monopoly, players who are focused on buying up expensive plots of ...
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SPH equips all websites with digital analytics

9 Jan 2014 - Singapore Business Review
Taps AT Internet to provide solutions. Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) announced that it has chosen AT Internet, a major player in the field of Web Analytics and Online Intelligence, to provide digital analytics solutions for all its websites. With this partnership, AT Internet will provide qualitative ...
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How to Really Build Long-Term Wealth

9 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
American billionaire investor Warren Buffett once shared how a US$40 investment into a single share of soft-drinks maker Coca-Cola in 1919 could be turned into more than US$10m today. I recently chanced upon another anecdotal story on the power of long-term investing and how one can turn a US$10,000 ...
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3 Companies That Have Bought Back Their Own Shares

16 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Warren Buffett is one man who advocates companies buying back of their own shares if the conditions are right. In his 1984 Letter to Shareholders, he opined that, “When companies with outstanding businesses and comfortable financial positions find their shares selling far below intrinsic value in the ...
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The Straits Times Index’s Flat Performers for the Year

10 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s already the 10th of December, so we only have 21 more days to go before 2013 comes to a close. Starting from last Tuesday, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) has been on a losing streak, closing at 3,114 points yesterday. That would represent a 1.7% decline since the end of December last year. ...
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SPH completes partial divestment of 701Search

4 Dec 2013 - Singapore Business Review
Only one-third share remains. SPH is pleased to announce that all the conditions precedent for the closing of the transactions have been satisfied pursuant to the terms of the divestment by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) of its partial shares in 701Search Pte. Ltd (701Search). The sale and transfer of ...
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Fighting Investors’ Greatest Enemy: Overconfidence

4 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
“I always thought the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body; and then one day it occurred to me, ‘Wait a minute, who’s telling me that?’” – Emo Philips Financial analytics firm Dalbar calculates the actual returns earned by investors compared with the S&P 500. In 2011, it published results for ...
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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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One Important Mistake to Avoid In Investing

2 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In 1983, 16 grandmotherly ladies in their 70s who lived in the United States in the city of Beardstown, Illinois decided to form the Beardstown Business and Professional Women’s Investment Club. Each member contributed an initial investment of US$100 in seed money and subsequently added US$25 per month ...
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SPH's Straits Times website hacked

1 Nov 2013 - Singapore Business Review
Anonymous hacker group claims responsibility. According to a Straits Times news update, a hacker claiming to be affiliated with the Anonymous network infiltrated the newspaper's website. The hacking incident came days after a threat from the same organization vowed to strike at The Straits Times if it ...
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