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OPINION
The Original Money Maverick
- Oct 22, 2022
- 6 min
The Worst Investment Year for Money Maverick - Down By Over 40% and How To Avoid It
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 Found A 15% GUARANTEED Property Rental Yield... and ALL of Its Issues
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
I Am Trying to Retire Early(by 36), Is It Foolish?- An Interview with the Original Money Maverick
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
- Dec 29, 2021
- 5 min
Stablecoin Deposits As An Asset Allocation Tool
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
- 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
- Jul 21, 2021
- 5 min
Is There Still Hope For Whole Life Plans?
I was unable to write the last few weeks because I was swamped with inquiries and policy optimization before these projected changes. The...
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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
- May 5, 2021
- 6 min
All My Participating Policies Are DROPPING THEIR BONUSES: Why? [RBC2 and solutions]
MAYBE only older people would have noticed - especially the ones who frequent banks, but they could probably see that their policies have...
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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
- Feb 10, 2021
- 7 min
Greedy Doctors, Overpaid Agents, or Kiasu Patients? What is Wrong with Integrated Plans? - Rebuttal
So this article came out recently, and it was even more annoying than Investment Moat's 'The True Reason to Choose Term Life Insurance...
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Money Maverick
- Jan 27, 2021
- 5 min
Is My Policy Affected By An Insurance Company Being Bought Over? (and other related questions)
A lil hullaboo was caused last year over Aviva's sale to SingLife - and a even bigger hullaboo was caused recently when a Financial...
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Money Maverick
- Jan 20, 2021
- 6 min
How to Double Your Income Every 5 Years (especially for Employees) - An Article to Kickstart 2021
I actually was supposed to write this...over a year ago. Some of my more loyal readers may remember. You may be wondering why Money...
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Money Maverick
- Jan 10, 2021
- 7 min
Money Maverick 2021: I Resigned From The Financial Services Industry
I'm writing this on the 7th of January, 2021. It's been quite possibly, one of the hardest weeks in my entire life. As I type these words...
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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 12, 2020
- 11 min
I Got Reported to MAS Over 120 Times! (by the same person) - Business Analysis, Personal Update
I am writing this while at home, having incapacitated myself to some degree from overwork. Yes, I really am that stupid. I can tell you...
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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 28, 2020
- 5 min
How I Helped A '35 Year Old' Client Get $3000 Cheaper Insurance Than a 30 Year Old
How I helped a 35 year old pay $3000 for the same value of coverage as a 30 year old.
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Money Maverick
- Oct 14, 2020
- 5 min
Closing Down Unethical Consultants! And A Personal Update
All year - I've been working with a group of Personal Finance advocates to close down a lot of unethical Consultants...amongst other things.
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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 30, 2020
- 5 min
The Complete Guide To Child Insurance! (in order of priority)
It can be very hard to be objective about Child Insurance. If you MUST buy - buy it in order of importance.
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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
- Sep 2, 2020
- 8 min
Why Insurance Agents (and Me!) Don't Like Serving Those With Pre-Existing Conditions, Part 1
And the Honest, Legitimate reasons behind it. [Hard Truth]
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Money Maverick
- Aug 21, 2020
- 5 min
How to Choose Your Financial Consultant - An Introduction to Saturation
Personal Thoughts about Saturation Risk that affects Businesses and Services - when a business is too big to serve you.
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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 21, 2020
- 4 min
My Thoughts on Being a Business Leader and What It Could Look Like
My thoughts on servant leadership, on being a Financial and Business Guide.
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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 27, 2020
- 8 min
Unpopular Opinion: Lockdowns NEED To End NOW, Medicine Is WORSE Than Disease
Am I selfish? Illogical?
Or could I be right?
Only one way to find out.
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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
- May 6, 2020
- 9 min
My BUSINESS CROSSROADS, Part 1 (And an apology for scaring a few people)
I talk about some aspects of business a Financial Consultant faces. Perhaps it will help you in its own way.
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Money Maverick
- Apr 20, 2020
- 7 min
How I Stopped Being Obsessed with Financial Correctness
Dear friends, its April 21st 2020 as I amend this.
So much has changed since I wrote this. I hope it gives you pause for reflection.
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Money Maverick
- Apr 20, 2020
- 6 min