I had started my new role at a new company a few weeks ago and I enjoyed some of the detailed learning which I’ve never really encountered in my previous work experience. Sadly, one of our portfolio analyst is resigning and due to the small organizational structure of the company the CEO had asked me…

You’re a fresh grad out of university or you’re one of those who have been dreaming about opening a restaurant or cafe and now you’re raring to go to make your dreams come true. I have once been in this position – trying to live my glamorous dream, but yet not too sure on whether…

Markets seem to be bullish as there are more IPOs coming in the 2nd half of the year than the first. Today, we look at the latest REIT IPO  – IREIT GLOBAL. To give a little bit of some of the macro background on this IPO in case you have not read the prospectus. They…

The world cup has finally ended. GERMANY triumphed over second place Argentina by a score of 1-0 courtesy of Mario Gotze goal in extra time. What I would like to point out here is the psychological consciousness of the 2nd and 3rd place. As we all know, Bronze medal winners would need to lose first…

On hindsight, the correlation between fulfillment and money should be positively correlated, that is the more money one earns the more fulfillment one gets. But is that really the case? Based on a research done by Stevenson and Wolfers on the Life satisfaction metrics against Real GDP for each individual nation, we can deduce that…

    Third time unlucky in IPO application.   To be fair, the chances were pretty slim to begin with, from around 3% to 16% based on the number of lots you applied.   From the allocation balloting, we can also see that the management is appreciating long term shareholders more than those who were bidding…

There’s been a couple of bloggers out there who have posted on what they would do to help their parents invest their money. I’ve been thinking over the past few weeks on what I should do with the angpao savings my son received from families and friends during his birth and the 1st month baby shower. The savings amounted…

Everyone seem to be talking about the IPO for Fraser Hospitality Trust (FHT) that Starburst gets hardly noticed by retail investors. There’s a couple of fellow bloggers who have also blogged about this IPO so I will try to give my views here. They will be offering 50 million shares (48 million shares for placement…

We are officially now halfway through the year and whether we choose to believe or not, it’s happening. People are advocating that time is money, but to me time is a priceless piece of art – which is precisely why I seek for a financial independence.     2013 seems like a very far away…