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Sun Tzu – War On Business Part 9 (Meru Cabs)

July 7, 2010 by Musicwhiz
Part 9 of the very interesting and insightful Sun Tzu series brings us to Mumbai, India, where James meets up with a budding entrepreneur called Neeraj Gupta (“Neeraj”), who is tackling the bustling city’s transportation issues by setting up a luxury taxi service called Meru Cabs. Meru Cabs is a modern taxi service which relies [...]

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Decreasing Term Life Insurance can be your low cost insurance solution

July 6, 2010 by Drizzt
Insuring so that your dependents not able to pay huge financial burden can be cheaper than you realise As a working adult aged 20-35, some of the hardest financial risks you are likely to face is:What if you are not around leaving your wife and kids to pay for the biggest financial burden, your mortgage. [...]

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Meeting with a Full Time Trader – TW

July 5, 2010 by Alvin
The good thing about sharing in this blog is that, it is presenting the opportunities to meet some people that I would not have met. Talk about TW, a full time trader, who emailed me for a chat. As usual, with the defensive nature of humans, I was trying to figure out “what does he want out of [...]

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CAGR II

July 4, 2010 by La Papillion
Recently, I was given an opportunity by a reader to explain more about CAGR. It’s not a brand of cigar. It’s refers to compounded annual growth rate – a calculation to find out the compounded returns per year (note that this is different from simple interest rate). I actually wanted to share how silly this [...]

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June 2010 Portfolio Summary and Review

July 2, 2010 by Musicwhiz
Call this an extremely slow and boring month, which June has traditionally been in terms of corporate news flow and updates. Add the fact that no companies are releasing any financial results this month and you can somewhat get the idea of how stagnant things can get. The World Cup, which began on June 11, [...]

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Money, Wealth and You

July 1, 2010 by Alvin
I have heard from different sources about value creation brings about wealth. You get richer only if you increase the value that you give to others. Zig Ziglar said, “you will get what you want if you help enough people get what they want.” Initially, I am not sure about this principle even when teacher [...]

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Do not live below your means. Learn how to own it!

June 26, 2010 by Alvin
I am not sure if thrift is part and parcel of Chinese’s culture. What I know is that I was brought up with the thinking that there are alot of things in this world that my family cannot afford, and I should not compare my situation with other rich people. Failing which, I would make myself miserable. Thus, [...]

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Sun Tzu – War On Business Part 8 (Skoda Cars)

June 25, 2010 by Musicwhiz
Part 8 comes back to Singapore again, and James Sun tackles a very “hot” issue amongst Singaporeans – that of cars. With recent news that COE prices have sky rocketed, this has not made it easy for cars to get sold, especially the smaller, lesser known brands. Though I suspect that this episode could have [...]

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Case Study of an Unplanned Hospitalisation Financial Disaster

June 23, 2010 by Martin Lee
Patrick (not his real name) suffered some discomfort late at night. As the normal clinics were already closed, he went by himself to a private hospital to seek consultation. While waiting for the test results, Patrick collapsed and went into a coma. His condition worsened and he ended up having multiple organ failure. Four specialists [...]

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Back from a short break…stock market technical indicators looking positive except for China…..

June 22, 2010 by Kevin Scully
Just got back from a short break with the family – missed the flood on Orchard Road but did see some pictures of it.   Not enjoying the World Cup – problems with the Germany, French, Italian and UK teams seems to be caused by the Euro crisis now filtering into the soccer areana too. Back to the [...]

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Boustead – FY 2010 Financial Analysis and Review Part 1

June 21, 2010 by Musicwhiz
Boustead released their FY 2010 results on May 27, 2010, and followed this up with an audiocast of the results along with a presentation and question and answer session. The results were in line with what I had expected and also what the CEO Mr. FF Wong had mentioned early on during 1Q 2010, that [...]

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The velocity of money

June 15, 2010 by La Papillion
I was re-reading this book by Garrett Gunderson – Killing Sacred Cows. It’s a very wonderful book with very refreshing concepts, so I make it a point to revisit some of the concepts espoused in the book every year when I have the time to do so. It’s so easy to read that if you [...]

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Buy and Hold is Overrated

June 14, 2010 by Musicwhiz
At this juncture, as the news flow from pundits and economic forecasters grows more and more shrill and jarring, an ever-present “die-hard”, core group of investment believers continues to espouse the (seemingly) timeless wisdom of “Buy and Hold”. They proclaim loudly and in a resounding tone that one should simply buy and hold and ride [...]

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A little reflection

June 10, 2010 by La Papillion
These days I hardly look at the market. I remember when I started, I keep staring at the prices, as if by some eye power, I can change the prices of the stocks that I owned. These days, it’s just a waste of time. I suppose as I get more mature and hopefully wiser, my [...]

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Untiming the Market

June 9, 2010 by Panzer
When you participate in the stock market, timing your purchases and sales is important. You want to buy low, hold and sell high. Or you want to sell high and buy low or you want to buy a dividend paying share at a low price. In order to buy or sell at the price you [...]

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Market Outlook – summary of the main points during my presentation at AICE (Asian Investment Conference and Exihibition) last Saturday

June 7, 2010 by Kevin Scully
Last Saturday I was invited to give my brief views about the market outlook and then participated in a panel discussion on the same topic.   The panelists included Tony Sagami (Harvest Advisors), Tan Teng Boo, MD& Fund Manager (Capital Dynamics), Vasu Menon, VP, OCBC Bank’s Wealth, Management Unit. Moderator: David Gerald and myself.  A copy of [...]

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Sun Tzu – War On Business Part 7 (Zak Surfboards)

June 6, 2010 by Musicwhiz
Part 7 of this series is an interesting one, as it focuses on a sport which is not very familiar to me and can be considered “niche”. This sport is surfing and the business in question is one of selling surfboards in Melbourne, Australia. The business is owned by a guy called Zak Koniaris (“Zak”), [...]

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SGX – trade review

June 4, 2010 by La Papillion
I was reviewing some of my past trades. This is one of them. The counter here is SGX. It’s not exactly good for trading because the cost of 1 lot is quite high, so while the absolute value might be the same, a higher amount of capital is tied up in case the trade goes [...]

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