I have blogged about the importance of having a war chest or a few (i.e. money in the bank, SRS, CPF-OA and CPF-SA). I also blogged about how I have a preference to put most of my money in the bank in fixed deposits for higher interest income. Of course with fixed deposits, there is a lock up period but if we should need the money, breaking a fixed deposit simply means forfeiting the higher interest income and nothing else. So, try to have several fixed deposits instead of putting all our money in a single fixed deposit and try to go for shorter lock up periods. We want to keep a good percentage of our money in the bank liquid enough to react quickly to opportunities. Unfortunately, with interest rates in local savings accounts around 0.05% to 0.1% per annum, we have to pay a pretty steep price for ......