Inspired by blogger friend Kevin of Turtle Investor, whom I hold high regards of in terms of his personality and his writings, I dug into my annual income tax return recently, and started to tabulate my salary and earnings. Over the years, I have seen many financial bloggers posted their Investment returns, but rarely have I seen anyone post their salary growth and be so transparent about it, except Kevin.
Frankly, I have never posted the actual figures of my portfolio. Likewise in this article, I will not share my actual salary figures and total earnings. Alternatively, I will normalised my first full year salary as 100 percent, and with the rest of the earnings benchmarked against it. You can have your own guess.
There are a few reasons for my lack of total transparency in this blog. First, I am still an employee, and it is a bit sensitive in my position
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