By Managing Your Money • April 10, 2018
Investors the world over chase alpha but struggle to get it. Nevertheless, their zeal for alphas does have one lasting effect: it nourishes an active...
By Managing Your Money • April 2, 2018
The move from active investing to passive has been a hot topic lately. Fund flows show that investors are voting with their feet. The news media has...
By Managing Your Money • March 26, 2018
I like mutual funds (unit trusts, as they called in Singapore). I like them not because most are great performers, nor because they offer affordable...
By Managing Your Money • March 21, 2018
I’ve not talked much about stock picking so far. This is partly because I have no expertise in picking stocks, which explains why I prefer a...
By Managing Your Money • March 20, 2018
I hope you find the formula given in the previous blog interesting. You can use the formula to estimate your median future wealth after investing $X...
By Managing Your Money • March 15, 2018
I can’t help you to divine where the stock market will be heading next week, but I can show you a formula that tells you what return you can...
By Managing Your Money • March 12, 2018
If you have been following this blog lately, I have basically been saying that (a) investors try too hard to beat the market by attempting to predict...
By Managing Your Money • March 6, 2018
The last few blogs sports a central theme: stock market prediction is a loser’s game for 99% of humanity (the other 1% are the odd investment...
By Managing Your Money • March 5, 2018
Unless you’ve been living on another planet, you would have come across experts musing about the potential of technology to revolutionize...
By Managing Your Money • February 25, 2018
Since we are in the era of ‘big data’ and fast computers, you may wonder whether machine learning has conquered finance, more specifically...
