By Finance Gnome • May 10, 2024
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...
By Finance Gnome • May 8, 2024
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...
By Finance Gnome • April 19, 2024
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...
By Finance Gnome • March 10, 2024
With risk assets rallying hard recently, our combined portfolio has broken the S$300k mark for the first time. Slowly but surely, our portfolio is...
By Finance Gnome • February 23, 2024
If you’ve been investing in the stock market on your own for some time now, do you know how you’re performing against S&P 500 or other...
By Finance Gnome • February 14, 2024
Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon! Whenever CNY comes around, some of my wealth transfers over to my kids via angbao. If your kids are below the...
By Finance Gnome • February 12, 2024
Markets continued to rally in Jan 2024, but our portfolios were left behind. Tesla was the huge drag on performance, followed by Apple. The rest of...
By Finance Gnome • January 26, 2024
Tesla (TSLA) just reported Q4 revenue and earnings below expectations, and guided for notably lower growth rate in deliveries for 2024. Investors...
By Finance Gnome • January 7, 2024
What a fantastic Santa rally to end 2023 on a high. The portfolio likewise benefited, hitting all-time highs as well which made the holidays even more...
By Finance Gnome • January 4, 2024
Every time year end comes around, I end up scrambling to figure out what to do with CPF and SRS. This year, I’m trying to plan ahead and have better...