Personal Finance
murphy’s law*?
By Patrick Lim  •  December 17, 2011
i read with a great dose of empathy, an article in today's edition of tabla (a weekly free tabloid) about a family's ordeal being struck by stroke and stuck in singapore. mr jaswal and his wife from india arrived in singapore on november 23, 2011 to celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary. but on november 25, 2011, mr jaswal suffered a stroke and has been in the intensive care unit of the neruosurgery ward in the singapore general hospital since. the hospital bill has already chalked up a whopping $42,000 and the jaswal's only child, 25 year old ms svaneel arrived in singapore on november 26, 2011 carrying whatever money she could arrange. and what's worst is that mother and daughter have spent the last 21 days in the corridors of the hospital because they have no relatives or friends in our tiny red dot nation. and thank God, mr jaswal's ......
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By Patrick Lim
Patrick is an Associate Director with Promiseland. He has more than 20 years of personal investment experience both in stock and shares and unit trusts. In his early years as an investor, he got burnt really bad in the infamous 1987 crash and again during the clob incident. With 2 decades of so-called battle scars behind him, the last few years (since 2003) have been good to him especially with his single country funds doing exceptionally well. On his investing style, he is both a technical analyst and fundamentalist. Patrick view wealth accumulation as part and parcel of the wealth management process but only if one has already executed his/her wealth protection planning on an on-going basis.
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