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Investing in Property is far safer than stocks?
By Create Wealth Through Long-Term Investing and Short-Term Trading  •  August 20, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3220" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photo by chanchan222"]Photo by chanchan222[/caption] Since STI low at 1205 on 11 Mar 2003, we are having jolly good times in the Stock Market all the way up to peak until ... OMG! Our lunch was quickly stolen by the Bear! We quickly realize how damaging and fearful the Stock Market can be? Company stock price can crash 80-90% so fast before we could even overcome our emotions to hold or cut losses, and some even went to ZERO before we can do anything! With such fearful experience in the stock market, retail investors (those with smaller capital) start thinking in the current environment of low loan interest rate of less than 2% fixed for 3 years, it is better to invest in property. Property will never crash 80-90% like stocks. So it must be safer as a long term investment over the future bear markets. We have to be extremely careful as retail investors (those with smaller capital) as objective comparison between property and stocks is tricky, because property is typically a leveraged investment, in which the retail investor makes a down payment equal to only a fraction of a property’s value and borrows to finance the rest. Read more...
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By Create Wealth Through Long-Term Investing and Short-Term Trading
I am 62 yrs old uncle living in HDB heartland who has achieved financial independence @ 56 and finally retired @ 60 from full-time job as employee on 1 Oct 2016. Single household income since 1995 with three children. Eldest son and daughter are now working and youngest son still in his 3nd year Uni in SUTD. I have been doing long-term investing and short-term trading in Singapore stock market only since Jan 2000 so I am that Panda or Koala in the investment world; but I am still surviving well in the wild. I am now executing my Three Taps solution model to maintain sustainable retirement income for life till 2038. Cheers!
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