Another year, another birthday and work anniversary. This year's milestone brings added irony, given that I'm on the verge of retrenchment. While this is horrible news by traditional standards, I'm actually quite excited with where my career will pivot to. So I'll be ok. Really. As is tradition now, I usually would share a personal story about money at these milestones. 2 … [Read more...] about My early relationship with money
Musings
Focus on the right Personal Finance areas
There are certain personal finance areas that is extremely popular among Singaporeans. This can be seen from the popularity and prevalence of websites dedicated to finding and shilling the best 'insert financial product here'. We Singaporeans lap all these information up as we love a bargain. 5% off my credit card spend? Awesome! Sign me up! 2% interest if I jump through … [Read more...] about Focus on the right Personal Finance areas
Personal Lessons from 2019
It's the holiday season. As I cruise through the gift exchanges, Christmas gatherings and festive merrymaking typical of December, it is also usually the time I think about the year I've had and the lessons I've learnt. As we send off 2019 (and the decade) into the sunset, here are my personal lessons of 2019 which I will bring forth into the new year. On … [Read more...] about Personal Lessons from 2019
Rekindling my Love of Learning
If you didn't know, I'm a bit of a nerd. Yup a real shocker. During my undergraduate days, especially in my final years, I would get excited about going to class and doing my tutorials. So you can imagine my excitement now that I'm embarking on my Masters next week! To think 10 years has passed since my freshmen orientation camp... god I feel so old. Yesterday was … [Read more...] about Rekindling my Love of Learning
My Favourite Finance related Shows
I always struggle when trying to educate friends and family with little to no personal finance and investing knowledge. As a result, I'm always interested in ways to introduce personal finance and investing knowledge to this group of people. One way I thought of is to introduce them to great shows / videos already out there in popular culture or on the Internet. In today's … [Read more...] about My Favourite Finance related Shows
Portfolio changes and others
Just some quick updates on my portfolio, blog and other things. Portfolio Updates As mentioned in my recent portfolio update, I'm looking to reduce my property and REIT exposure and up my growth stocks portfolio. I closed my Frasers Property Ltd position and part of my Frasers Logistics and Industrial Trust position this week upon review. I was concerned with … [Read more...] about Portfolio changes and others
Highlights from Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Letter 2018
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, released his annual letter to shareholders yesterday evening. People in the investment world would know that this annual letter summarises Berkshire's financial performance for 2018 and usually contains nuggets of investing wisdom. The letter was so influential that before the advent of the Internet, professional money … [Read more...] about Highlights from Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Letter 2018
My thought process in selecting my Masters programme
I'm well into my 6th year in my career and unbeknownst to readers, I've been thinking of going back to school to upgrade and specialise my skill set over the past year. The whole thought experiment culminated recently when I accepted a place in a part-time Masters of Science in Accounting (Data & Analytics) (MSA) programme at SMU. As such, it felt like a decent time … [Read more...] about My thought process in selecting my Masters programme
Risk N Returns 2.0 Beta
Welcome to my "new" blog! It's been a busy couple of days. Between visiting relatives and working on migrating my blog from Wordpress.com to self-hosting, it's been hectic. I'm proud to say I've mostly successfully migrated my blog to self-hosting (as you can see). The process was confusing at times for someone who doesn't know much about building websites and coding, but … [Read more...] about Risk N Returns 2.0 Beta