The Worst Investment I Made - Losing Almost $50,000 in Hard Earned Money
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The Original Money Maverick
- Oct 21
- 9 min
I Made a Whole Life Plan MUCH More Cost-Effective than a Term Plan - Again? (Sort of)
2 years ago, I wrote this article. READ ALSO: I Made a Whole Life Plan MUCH 'Cheaper' (?) than a Term Plan Predictably, a butt hurt noob...
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The Original Money Maverick
- Aug 19
- 6 min
I'm Getting Married - Why and How I Brought Up My Prenuptial Agreement
This is the first in a multi-series set of articles that both seek to educate and update on my personal life. I am looking to conduct a...
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The Original Money Maverick
- Mar 15
- 7 min
How Unethical Investing Gave Us MANY TIMES MORE MONEY Than the Average Investor
In this article, I go over how a controversial approaches to investing yielded the highest market result for myself and clients.
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The Original Money Maverick
- Feb 25
- 7 min
Frequently Asked Questions About Financial Concerns, Issues, and Answers From Gay Clients
As a staunch Christian, I make no attempt to suggest that I am an ally or always have been an ally to LGBT groups. But as a Christian and...
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The Original Money Maverick
- Feb 15
- 9 min
No Longer a Millionaire - My Whole Investing Portfolio (November 2022) and a 20% Return Every Month
Fresh off a HIGHLY EXTENSIVE RESEARCH DOCUMENT on Energy (which if I'm honest I didn't put in as much time as I should to understand), I...
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Money Maverick
- Nov 16, 2022
- 7 min
I Expose My Whole Portfolio Beginning in 2021: My Risks Do Have Limitations!
This article initially begun drafting Early December and was updated in Early January 2022 As a reader of Financial Blogs for quite a few...
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The Original Money Maverick
- Oct 22, 2022
- 6 min
How to Prevent Money Maverick's Worst Investing Year - a Loss of Almost 40%
Last year was a pretty humbling year for me. After 4 solid years of beating the SNP500's results, the end of 2021 wasn't even close....
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Money Maverick
- Feb 17, 2022
- 5 min
I Discovered A GUARANTEED 15% Property Rental Return with Pros and Cons
A short while back I received an invite-only introduction to an investment: 'A 15% Guaranteed Property Rental Return, Capital...
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Money Maverick
- Jan 19, 2022
- 9 min
Financial Freedom: An Interview with the Original Money Maverick on Early Retirement by 36
This article was created after a financial review conducted with Luke Ho in 2021, who was the author's Financial Consultant/Investment...
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Money Maverick
- Jan 5, 2022
- 18 min
Financial Freedom Lessons From A Thai Escort
TRIGGER WARNING: The following content has descriptions of tragedy, sex, abuse, self-injurious behavior. Read at your own risk. The...
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Money Maverick
- Dec 29, 2021
- 5 min
New Opportunities: The Role of Stablecoin Deposits in Modern Asset Allocation
In every portfolio we hold a cash element, used for buying investment dips or acting as a buffer for our day-to-day necessities. Cash is...
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Money Maverick
- Nov 17, 2021
- 5 min
How You Could Do Better Than The '18% Annualized' Investment Advertised
As an avid reader of this blog, I have always found posts on unethical entities amusing to read ( Read -> taking down unethical...
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Money Maverick
- Nov 10, 2021
- 6 min
How Money Mavericks Developed 9 Streams of Income Before Turning 30 (and how to get started)
Talking about multiple income streams has been all the hype, I decided to write one to talk about our experiences. By 'Our', I refer to...
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Money Maverick
- Nov 3, 2021
- 8 min
Introducing The New Money Maverick: How I Got Here and What's Next
Hi everyone, I'm Seth. I hope I will be better known as Money Maverick. By now, I hope that everyone has watched the previous owner's...
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Money Maverick
- Oct 21, 2021
- 6 min
Differentiation - How an Understanding of It Took My Investment from $12,000 to $45,000 in 1 Year
" Why did you decide to purchase Money Maverick?" Some of my circle were very curious about why I acquired Money Maverick and all its...
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Money Maverick
- Oct 13, 2021
- 7 min
Can My Bank Empty My Account For My Housing Loan? Featuring the 'Backdating Property' Fraud Case
Our mum didn't hit her first career break until about 8 or 9 years back. I didn't understand a lot at the time, but Mum had a new name...
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Money Maverick
- Oct 6, 2021
- 6 min
Should You Still Invest Your CPF-OA After 55?
My family likes to catch up on public holidays. Because Covid restricts the number of people in a home, it has been an interesting...
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Money Maverick
- Jun 17, 2021
- 4 min
I Made a Whole Life Plan MUCH 'Cheaper' (?) than a Term Plan
I'm going to provide some potential evidence for why 'Term Insurance' only attitudes are frankly, ridiculous. Maybe its because the...
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Money Maverick
- May 26, 2021
- 4 min
Why You Should Be Cautious of Investments Promising MUCH MORE Than 10% (especially without context)
Recently I was confronted by a prospect who basically mocked me, saying that my benchmark of 8% was too low and he could get better...
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Money Maverick
- May 19, 2021
- 7 min
A (Very) Small Peek Into Money Maverick's Personal Portfolio - The Problem with FIRE Pundits
I had a very enjoyable talk with a client recently. She wanted to pursue FIRE [Financial Independence Retire Early - the art of having...
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Money Maverick
- Apr 18, 2021
- 8 min
Which Level Of The 10 Levels of Investing Are You At? Consider An Investment Specialist.
Otherwise known as: a) Why Someone Who Has Investment Experience Should Still Consider Using a Financial Consultant, or b) How I made my...
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Money Maverick
- Mar 17, 2021
- 6 min
How to Lose All Your Capital through P2P or Venture Capital(CoAssets, Gobear), 1M65 SG stocks, etc
In my attempt to behave myself whilst my reference check is being conducted, I've simply been doing business preparatory work. Being...
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Money Maverick
- Mar 3, 2021
- 5 min
What People Keep Getting Wrong About Annualized Returns (and why they can't get 8%).
I ALWAYS get questions about 8% returns. Aside from being a lucky Chinese number, it also tends to be the most common illustration by...
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Money Maverick
- Dec 28, 2020
- 7 min
How I Manage My Christian Faith and My Love For Money [A Christmas Article on Financial Focus]
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other....
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Money Maverick
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
How a Great ILP Fund Fell - Fortress Fund A (A Review)
When I first joined the industry and realized how much I love investing, I was still a wide-eyed kid at the time. I didn't know back...
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Money Maverick
- Dec 10, 2020
- 4 min
Why CPFIS Failed Before (and why it wont fail now)
Last week, I wrote an article on CPFIS Funds. As usual, some morons people were critical that past performance doesn't equal to future...
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Money Maverick
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
4 CPFIS-OA Funds With 7% Historical Annualized Returns Or Higher
A few days ago, I got a message from my client. The client was curious as to his own investment returns, so he checked, sent me back a...
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Money Maverick
- Nov 21, 2020
- 6 min
Why Investors Chose The Singapore Market (And Why They Should Give Up)
Also: How My 2019 Clients Outperformed The Straits Times Index by Over 75% YTD (and counting) ...by the way, people seem to really like...
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Money Maverick
- Oct 21, 2020
- 5 min
Investment Context: Defining a Genius and an Idiot
Context is important before you randomly select investments from something you read online, like silly reviews.
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Money Maverick
- Oct 7, 2020
- 5 min
INDIRECT LOSSES! How They Kill Your Dreams (And How Investing Will Save You)
Indirect Losses are an area which very few Financial Planners understand and account for. Learn about them here.
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Money Maverick
- Sep 23, 2020
- 5 min
Geographical Risk - How I've Comfortably Beaten The SNP500 By Double Digits Year To Date
How exploration of investments outside of the country or the US could help you as an investor.
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Money Maverick
- Sep 16, 2020
- 5 min
Don't Jaywalk - Because Kids Are Watching! A Lesson in Employee Management And Investing
A short article on Employees and Investing before a technical article next month.
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Money Maverick
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
Why Jamus Lim Would Suggest Going Into Debt to... Make Lots of Money? (with context)
A Short Write Up explaining the pros and cons more. Please seek a detailed consult from a licensed consultant such as Money Maverick.
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Money Maverick
- Aug 1, 2020
- 6 min
Are 'Private Annuity' Plans Superior to CPF? – A Gift for FI-35 and a Lesson for Others
Answering FIi35's question from 2 weeks ago. There is an actual answer.
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Money Maverick
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
Assumptions Used/All Articles
The fact that I needed to create this at all to be compliant is sad.
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Money Maverick
- Jul 29, 2020
- 4 min
Waiting to Get Started in Investing? You Lose Over $7600 A Month While You Wait!
We rarely discuss the opportunity cost associated with investing too late. It can rack up a lot.
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Money Maverick
- Jul 15, 2020
- 6 min
The RECESSION-PROOF PORTFOLIO REVEALED - and other articles I placed in the reject pile
Money Maverick's reject pile - including a Recession Proof Portfolio and other snazzy articles.
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Money Maverick
- Jul 11, 2020
- 5 min
Statistical Probability, Kicking the SNP500 and a Personal Update
I discuss Investments in the last 7 months briefly, whether there'll be another market crash and a Personal Update.
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Money Maverick
- Jun 3, 2020
- 6 min
How to Bag Yourself a Top Insurance Agent in Singapore (Version 2.0)
With Consultants dropping out of your life like flies, this could be a useful guide to nailing a good one.
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Money Maverick
- May 20, 2020
- 9 min
A Step by Step Tutorial In Failing to Becoming A Successful Trader [So Don't Do It]
Clear, easy to understand details on the MANY pitfalls of trading. Stay till the end, the article is shorter than it looks.
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Money Maverick
- Apr 8, 2020
- 4 min
Investing 101 for Covid-19 - 5 Financial Lessons to Employ in a Crisis
I summarize some of the investment lessons I've taught over the last few years to apply during a time of uncertainty.
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Money Maverick
- Apr 1, 2020
- 4 min
Shorting - Making Profits From a Falling Market...Now!
The Flip Side of Value Investing - Faster, too.
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Money Maverick
- Mar 25, 2020
- 8 min
Investment Update, Corona Virus, MDRT and a Personal Note
Some assurances for investors using some facts and figures, what Money Maverick is up to (and in future) and other things.
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Money Maverick
- Mar 11, 2020
- 4 min
Net Interest Income – How I Avoid the Largest Fees of All
Net Interest Income is a concept which enables your institutions to make huge money while you pick up the peanuts. You can do better.
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Money Maverick
- Feb 5, 2020
- 5 min
How I got an 9% dividend every year - and why I gave it up
I used to love my 9% dividend, but I had to give it up. Here's why.
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Money Maverick
- Jan 22, 2020
- 6 min
Money Maverick's 2019 Expenses
If you've ever wondered whether a Financial Consultant practiced what he preached or spent his commissions on Rolexes...
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Money Maverick
- Jan 15, 2020
- 4 min
Dating My Girlfriend Taught Me the Sheer Severity of Forex
The story of how I lose 5.2% every year. :(
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Money Maverick
- Jan 8, 2020
- 5 min
I Finally Figured out How to 'Double your Money in 5 Years, Capital Guaranteed' - from a Bank!
An investment that is capital guaranteed and can double in 5 years.
O_O It was offered by a BANK...how?
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Money Maverick
- Jan 2, 2020
- 6 min
Singapore Financial Consultants Share Their Reflections on 2019 and... Eh, you get it.
Sorry for not being influencer enough, lah.
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