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Personal tax planning 3: Supplementary Retirement Scheme

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Welcome to part 3 of my basic personal income tax planning series! In this series of posts I hope to cover the following topics: Tax reliefsCPF Cash Top UpSupplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS)Bringing it all together - How to best utilise these reliefs to your advantage In this part, I will cover how contributing to your SRS account can be used as a tool to mitigate your … [Read more...] about Personal tax planning 3: Supplementary Retirement Scheme

Personal tax planning 1: Tax reliefs

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Welcome to my basic personal income tax planning series! In this series of posts I hope to cover the following topics: Tax reliefsCPF Cash Top UpSupplementary Retirement SchemeBringing it all together - How to best utilise these reliefs to your advantage This series of posts assumes that you understand the basic concepts of income tax and personal reliefs as well as the … [Read more...] about Personal tax planning 1: Tax reliefs

Augmenting your investing life

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Last week, I covered how a new investor can use their life experiences to generate investment ideas. Let's say I was SO INSPIRING that you have implemented it in your life, and now wish to take a more active role in obtaining investment ideas, instead of waiting for ideas to drop from the sky. Fret not, today I'll be sharing the small tweaks I made to my day to expand the range … [Read more...] about Augmenting your investing life

Investing as a way of life

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Friends often ask me where I get my stock ideas, what kind of work I do to find ideas and most often, they don't know what stocks to buy. To be honest, I think I'm one of the most lazy investors out there (Please don't bash me?). I read pages and pages of others' blog posts about how they have projected Company X's future profits and cashflows based on assumptions A, B … [Read more...] about Investing as a way of life