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I always advocate that investors should not to pay too much attention to financial news. The main reason is that as a retail investor, your reaction just cannot
If you have not noticed, Warren Buffett has “underperformed” S&P 500 index in 2011. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway slipped 4.7% in 2011, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index
With effect from 1st January 2012, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will require all financial institutions to ascertain whether their clients possess the necessary knowledge or experience
Amid recent volatile markets, many financial media are advocating investing in REITs. REITs became the synonym of high dividend income, downside protection, asset diversification, blah blah. However, the dark side of
Why Equal Weighting Outperform Yesterday, I attended a seminar hosted by EDHEC-Risk Institute. The speech was given by Raman Uppal, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School. The topic was
Specified Investment Products have terms and features that require more knowledge to understand. They include: Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), Futures (Extended Settlement contracts), Structured
Independent trader Alessio Rastani made his fame during the BBC interview earlier this week. What he said “shocked” those in the studio as well as the public. The
Last week, UBS AG said a rogue trader racked up as much as $2 billion in losses using the firm’s own money. The losses is said to stem from
In Mar this year, the world most prominent bond fund manager, Bill Gross, dumped all his exposure to U.S. government holdings in his more than $240 billion Pimco
On 22 August 2011, SGX announced “Further measure to improve investor awareness of exchange traded fund (ETF) structures“. Recent attention given to the embedded risks of synthetic replication
