Why a $200,000 Stock Portfolio is better than a $1,000,000 Property (Ongoing Article)
Surprisingly not clickbait. I draw on statistical public data to demonstrate that property investing locally is a weaker option than ever.
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The Original Money Maverick
Feb 216 min
CPF-Shielded Retiree 'Loses' OVER $874,000 from 2024 Changes! The Bittersweet Satisfaction of Being Right
Through my entire career, I have had the occasion to warn people about relying too heavily on CPF. CPF Life began to gain popularity...
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The Original Money Maverick
Dec 25, 20236 min
How to Qualify to Advice on F.I: Lessons for Both Readers and FAs to Take
What we can learn about Financial Advice from SG's No 1 Investment Blogger.
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The Original Money Maverick
Nov 1, 20237 min
The Worst Investment I Made - Losing Almost $50,000 in Hard Earned Money
Sometimes my readers and clients look at me like I am infallible. This is simply not true - rather, I use my knowledge to help them...
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The Original Money Maverick
Oct 21, 20239 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, 20236 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, 20237 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, 20237 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, 20239 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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The Original Money Maverick
Dec 27, 202216 min
Dare to Dream: A Thai Escort's Journey to Financial Freedom
It's 12pm on the 31st of October, 2022. I've just finished the last of the Money Maverick Academy Preview - when my LINE buzzes. LINE...
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The Original Money Maverick
Oct 22, 20226 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, 20225 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, 20229 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
Dec 29, 20215 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, 20215 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, 20216 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, 20216 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, 20217 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, 20216 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, 20215 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, 20214 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, 20214 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, 20217 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, 20216 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, 20218 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, 20216 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, 20215 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, 20217 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, 20215 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, 20216 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, 20217 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, 20207 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, 20204 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, 202011 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, 20204 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, 20204 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, 20206 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, 20205 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, 20205 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, 20205 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, 20205 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, 20205 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, 20204 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, 20208 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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