Author: Growing your tree of prosperity

During my preparations for the talks at the end of the month ( which is rapidly selling out ! ), I would go to Lee Kong Chian Library and take down some interesting observations on the market from the Bloomberg terminals. Today’s observation goes beyond the scope of my presentation in July so it’s better to share this on my blog for intermediate investors. It will also give attendees and idea of what my presentation would be like at the end of the month. An important question investors are curious to know is whether deep value strategies outperform a...

Here’s an update. This week on Wednesday the kind folks of Maybank Kim Eng bought me and two other finance bloggers to lunch to apologise for the margin call made on my account. ( As I was the only guy who got margin called, I accused the other bloggers of getting a free meal out of my misery ! ) The lunch was somewhat hipsterish –  we ate octopus at this place called Venue by Sebastian. The highlight of the session if not so much the free food but just how surprisingly insightful the folks of Maybank are. I...

I’m really excited to talk about our next event which will feature 7 speakers and last one entire Saturday afternoon on 29 July 2017. This event will be the first time BigScribe would be selling tickets for 250+ seats.  You can place your order through this link. This time round, I’m really excited to be on the same panel as Teh Hooi Ling, who is currently the President of Aware and my super-senior in the NUS Masters of Applied Finance programme. I have to admit that I am the fan boy this time and I have all of Teh Hooi...

I felt that a recent article on AEON sums up my approach to life for the past 2 decades. Today I’d just like to talk about platforms, why they matter in a world of inconspicuous consumption and follow up on margin trading which is causing a small stir on other financial blogs. a) Platforms matter  The article on inconspicuous consumption discusses new ways by which people signal social economic status. All of these approaches are fairly cheap in terms of money but can be horrendously costly in terms of time. I use a more general term of platforms when thinking...