Happy Chinese New Year to all readers! In case you missed it – we’re going to get a 12 month T-Bills auction this month. 12 month T-Bills are incredibly rare – this is one of only four in 2023. So if you want to apply, make sure to get your cash appl...
It all started with a podcast. Sometime last year, I was listening to this episode on the Art of Manliness podcast on how adult men find it increasingly hard to make genuine friends. The podcast guest was Billy Baker, the author of We Need To Hang Ou...
Having downtime in between visiting? Bored at your relatives’ place? Insurance agent cousin trying to sell you an ILP? Here are some of the greatest (in my opinion, anyway) articles and videos on personal finance you can consume and unlike pineapple...
The Year of the Rabbit is probably a good year for banks, with rising interest rates boosting their bottomline somewhat and many rushing to organise events after a covid induced hiatus over the last few years. All the lunch slots I have post Chinese...
In the past week, pessimism (i.e. bearishness) among individual investors about the short-term direction of the stock market slipped last week to its lowest level in 10 weeks. Neutral sentiment also pulled back, while optimism (bullishness) has rebou...
After the latest contributions for Dec 22 salary and interests, my CPF Medisave account balance is as follows: I just contributed $1,820.10 to my CPF Medisave account using eNETs (to be discontinued in Apr 2023) which will take one day for the amou...
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Amidst all the Lunar New Year preparations, we’ve received many questions about the various government bond auctions that are going on this month. This week, we had the 6-month T-bill auction which closed with a lower cut-off yield of 4.0%. We look...
Okay my apologies. I’ve been getting a flood of questions on whether it’s better to buy the 12 month or 6 month T-Bills using CPF-OA. I was quite tied up and only got around to crunching the numbers this week. The result though, surprised me greatly....
Morgan Housel came up with an outstanding article on the art and science of spending money. Basically, he distilled the spectrum of issues we deal with that make spending money more complex than many financial experts think. There are a few parts tha...