Singapore Savings Bonds – Why I Am Not so Excited About It as Retirement Option

For a very long time, Singaporeans were deprived of investing in good financial products. Bond has always been the cornerstone of financial institutions and high net worth individuals’ investment

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3 Myths of Bond ETF Investing and Why I Give It a Miss

I always have my reservation of investing bonds using a Bond ETF. The bond market is a big boys game, it is dominated by large financial institutional players,

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High Yield Bond: Why You Need It in Your Retirement Investment Portfolio

In this blog, I talk a lot about Income Generating Asset (IGA). Without passive income from these IGAs, you simply have no means to retire. If you have

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Consider bond investment when the stock market is high

You know it, the stock markets have reached an all-time high. If you are like most investors, you probably feel a bit jittery about this. Will there be

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3 Bond Investment Lessons From Swiber’s Winding-Up

Bond investment is always in voracious demand in Singapore. With many years of low deposit rate and lifeless Singapore stock market, people are struggling to find a better investment

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Invest in short term bond funds when stock market is not safe

When it comes to investment, the first thing that comes to your mind is probably investing in stocks. People argue about stock investment all the time. Market goes up,

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Falling Oil Price: Will There Be A Credit Crunch?

Who are the smartest and most heartless companies in the world? You bet, the banks. If you recall my article at the beginning of the year, I have

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Will Perpetual Bond Become the Next Lehman Minibond?

OK, let’s just call this Perpetual Security “Perpetual Bond” in Singapore context, for the same purpose to call “mini-bond” a bond, for the same purpose to call “structured

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HDB issues Fixed Rate Notes

In a recent Straits Times article  “Huge demand for corporate bonds this year“, the author highlighted “Corporate bonds may be rather unexciting to some, but they are selling like

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Genting Perpetual Securities Subscription Result

Perpetual Securities have become the hottest cake in town now. Genting Singapore last month raised S$1.8 billion from a perpetual securities issue–the largest ever single tranche Singapore-dollar bond

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