Let's face it, money is the ultimate objective for all investors to get involved in investments in the first place and probably the last place too. Whether you are talking about the real estates, commodity or stocks and even the savings in our bank accounts, we are talking about money here. Like one of the Chinese saying "钱不是万能。但没钱万万不能" (loosely translated as "Money is not everything but without money you are nothing").

Last Thursday, went to the National Library and one book title at the "New Books" rack caught my eyes, it read : "$how Me The Money - Sound Principles To Grow Your Wealth". Authored by a local well known ex-journalist and Head of Research and Executive Director of Aggregate Asset Management, Ms Teh Hooi Ling.

Basically, the book is a collection of 45 articles that she has written for the past years in the ...