Opinion 9/11

7 Financial Lessons I learnt travelling 1900km to surprise my girlfriend for Valentine's Day

It’s 5am, 25th of February. I’m stranded in the airport in Bangkok as I’m typing this out. Money Maverick’s (limited) rep as a Financial...

My Financial Advisor Left Me, Why? What now?

Find the right one for you at Match.com. Uh, I mean - get a new one. ----- One of the fun things about writing again is figuring out what...

CPF 70 Years Old...and the 'Leceh' Principle

How Psychology and Precommitment makes sure you either lose or don't a whole bunch of money.

An Earnest Conversation

A story and a message for everyone's financial new year. I got feedback recently that my stuff has been getting a bit too promotional....

Nobody cares about your money more than you…WRONG!

This started with a post on Seedly a few weeks where a contributor, Jiang Jun - shared his negative experience with losing $3600. In...

Investing is like Trying to Eat Chocolate... In the Desert

It's really hard. --- One of my favorite stories/life experiences is when I had to go to Australia for an army exercise. If you’re...

A Story of Wealth Creation, and Why Investing Isn't a Zero-sum game

ft. Some Simple Investment Concepts I recently got especially annoyed at someone who had been giving fairly bad advice. Maybe it was...

6 Critical Illnesses You have ZERO coverage for - including Singapore's Top Killer (Part II)

Last week, I covered some of the ‘newer’ Critical Illnesses that were introduced to the Life Insurance Association’s framework in 2009....

Looking at Where Debt Has Gone: A Review

For my friend Jonathan Loh. Talking about economics is not my forte, but a reader requested for my opinion on this particular article so...

Not Salty, Just Honest - Debunking MoneyOwl on Planning

I had a engaging discussion on Unit Trusts with MoneyOwl CEO, Chuin Ting Weber, a week back so I was pretty thrilled to see the team...