Crash Canceled!? May 2020 Portfolio Update!
Reading Time: 6 minutes Since it’s been 3 months since the start of this COVID-19 crash, I thought I’d give a portfolio update to show it’s impact and help you stay the course!
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My FIRE Path : Looking back at 2019 progress, lessons learned and my goals for 2020
Reading Time: 14 minutes Photo by Swapnil Bapat on Unsplash What a year! What a year. Even though 2018 ended disastrously, the performance of 2019 completely made up for it. Since the major drop in at the end of last year, the market in 2019 went on to grow over 28%. Anybody who was buying into the market during … Read more
A Bet On Humanity: Why Index Investing Works (In Simple Terms)
Reading Time: 13 minutes Have you wondered about the underlying reason for the long-term upwards trend of the stock market and why index investing works? Me too, so I wrote a thing.
Dodge income tax (legally) on your path to FIRE in Singapore – Making use of the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS)
Reading Time: 18 minutes Everybody has to pay income tax, but there’s no sense in paying more than you need to. What if there’s a perfectly legitimate way to reduce your tax obligations that is sanctioned by the Singapore government, would you take advantage of it? How would you even start? Well, the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) is one such way. In this article, I’ll be diving into the details on how SRS works, what you can do with it, as well as an example of how I will be incorporating it into my FIRE plan.
Don’t bother dollar cost averaging your bonus, invest it all at once! – DCA vs Lump Sum Investing Analysis (STI ETF)
Reading Time: 12 minutes Just got your bonus? Not sure what the best way to invest it – DCA or Lump Sum? Wonder no more as Lump Sum is the best way to go, here’s why.
Buy a car or make SGD 1,000 per month in passive income forever? You decide!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Cars are one of the more expensive purchases in Singapore. More than just the up front cost, would you give up SGD 1,000 in passive income for it?
CPF on FIRE: The 10 Commandments you must follow before investing your CPF money
Reading Time: 9 minutes After the analysis I’ve been doing on the STI ETF and the findings that came from that analysis, it’s been making me wonder if we should be investing our CPF OA monies in the STI ETF for the better returns. If you’re not yet aware, as part of the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS), the Singapore … Read more
The Ultimate Comprehensive Analysis of The 11-Year Returns of the STI ETF: Part 2 – Rolling Internal Rate of Returns
Reading Time: 8 minutes What are the rate of returns of the STI ETF look for rolling investment windows of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 years? What’s the most likely returns you’d get based on the length of your investment and how does the length of investment affect your returns? I did the analysis and compiled the results here.
The Ultimate Comprehensive Analysis of The 11-Year Returns of the STI ETF: Part 1 – Dollar Cost Averaging
Reading Time: 18 minutes As Singaporean investors, when we talk about a Singapore-Dollar-denominated broad-based diversified stock index, the only good option we really have is the Straits Times Index. Even though it only has 30 companies, it’s the best we’ve got. But how good is it?
My FIRE Path: 2018 Progress & 2019 Goals
Reading Time: 9 minutes CAN WE GET OFF THE ROLLER COASTER NOW PLEASE!?!?!? Investors in 2018 (Probably) Whew! 2018 was an ‘interesting’ year, to say the least. Although the year was filled with volatility, the majority of the time, the market was moving sideways and even slightly up compared to where we were last year. That was until October … Read more