Estate Planning Beyond the Will – The Crucial Role of Trust

When it comes to estate planning and wealth transfer, most people immediately think of drafting a will or Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA). It’s a natural first step

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Bitcoin: Is It a Good Long Term Investment?

Is Bitcoin a fad or the future? Is it worth long-term investment? Should you still buy it now at this price? These are the common questions that my

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Interest Rate Hike: 4 impacts it has to you and your money

Will you give it a yawn when you hear the news that the interest rate hike is coming? You may yet to realise how deeply this will affect

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3 things you must do to invest in the modern world

There’s a popular English proverb saying: “Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.” In another word, if you concentrate on saving small amounts of

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Investing For Retirement: Why You Need a Systematic Approach

When it comes to wealth building and investing for retirement, there are two stages you will have to go through: Stage 1 – Wealth Accumulation Stage 2 –

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Should you include Absolute Return Hedge Funds in your Asset Allocation?

Are hedge funds, a form of investments journalists love to hate, worth a second look? Should your asset allocation include alternative investment such as Absolute Return funds into

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Why Dividend Stocks alone is not the best Income Investing strategy

“Asset allocation can offer investors cash flows similar to dividends stocks with lower risk” Many investors buy dividend stocks. This usually means buying ‘blue-chips’ that have a track

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Temasek Investment Review 2011 – Is 4.6% Return high or low?

Temasek Holdings’s portfolio reached a record-high $193 billion at the end of its last financial year. Its portfolio grew from a previous record of $186 billion in the

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How Obama invests his money

Because of my business, I come across many successful businessmen. They are brilliant people who made their fortune though excellent judgement and hard work. However, when come to

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Who Will Buy Treasuries When The Fed Doesn’t?

One month before Standard & Poor warned of downgrade US treasury debt’s AAA rating, Bill Gross, managing director and co-CIO of PIMCO, asks: “Who Will Buy Treasuries When The

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