Finance Gnome
Hi, I’m Calvin! I’m a lucky husband and father of two wonderful kids. I work as an aerospace engineer at my 9 to 5. I’ve been investing since 2011, but my investing journey started off pretty terribly. Many of the stocks I bought lost me loads of money, call it tuition fees. Thankfully most of the time, I managed to bail out before losing everything.
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Invest By Finance Gnome • December 11, 2024
Portfolio Update November 2024 – Year End Party Started Early, Green All Around Christmas came early this year. Stocks are rallying like no tomorrow, which started with Trump’s election victory. I’m not complaining, since our...
Invest By Finance Gnome • October 17, 2024
Portfolio Update September 2024 – Fed Rate Cut Sparked Portfolio Gains Thanks to the Fed cutting interest rates by 50 bps and sparking a rally in almost every asset class, our tech-heavy portfolios benefitted greatly....
Market Review and Trends By Finance Gnome • September 14, 2024
Markets Pushing All-Time Highs: Why I’m Turning Cautious Markets are back to all-time highs again, for the third time this year and just over the past 3 months. Who knows whether third time’s a charm but...
Invest By Finance Gnome • September 5, 2024
Portfolio Update August 2024 – Mostly Away But Didn’t Miss Much We were away for the first half of August on vacation, so I missed out the July update (been a while since I missed one). However, seems like the...
Invest By Finance Gnome • July 12, 2024
Portfolio Update June 2024 – Big Gains Driven by Big Tech, Tesla and Palantir Big Tech pushed the market higher in June, and our portfolios benefitted. Even Tesla (TSLA) and Palantir (PLTR) joined in the party this time....
Invest By Finance Gnome • June 19, 2024
Portfolio Update May 2024 – Nvidia Carrying but Tesla Dragging The party continues in May and so far also in June. Nvidia (NVDA) continues its crazy run, while Tesla (TSLA) continues to disappoint. As a result,...
Invest By Finance Gnome • May 21, 2024
Portfolio Rebalancing May 2024: Trimmed ETFs and DBS with Markets Back at All-Time Highs With markets back at all-time highs, our Family Retirement Portfolio (FRP) crossed my arbitrary $1k threshold to trigger a rebalance. Both S&P 500...
Invest By Finance Gnome • May 10, 2024
Singapore Savings Bond (SSB) June 2024: 3.33% Yield, Third Highest in Recent Times Next month’s Singapore Savings Bond (SSB) June 2024 issue offers a very attractive 3.33% average yield over 10 years. Applications close 28 May...
Invest By Finance Gnome • May 8, 2024
Portfolio Update April 2024 – DBS and Tesla Holding the Fort After a pretty good March, the markets turned back down in April. Thankfully for the portfolios, DBS and Tesla held the fort this time, cushioning the...
Invest By Finance Gnome • April 19, 2024
Portfolio Update March 2024 – Divergent Performance Between Portfolios This update is super late this month because I was away on vacation in Japan with my family in the first 2 weeks of April (and spent a bomb). Side...
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