What’s more value for money, owning a car or taking grab daily? We’re here to break it down for you. Cost of Annual Car Ownership Annual Car Installment S$11,600 (Assuming S$100,000 car, 30% desposit, loan tenure of 7 years) Annual Road Tax S$168 (1.6 liter car) Annual Insurance S$2,400 (Assuming a Mazda 3) Annual Fuel […]

The Money Matters After the “worst recessions since Great Depression”, markets are looking forward to a global economic recovery. What are the experts saying? UBS: Long Value over Growth over Defensives. Forecast S&P 500 at 4,100 at end 2021E. Morgan Stanley Wealth Management: Forecast 10% gain next 12 months, sees opportunity in smaller cap stocks […]

Investing is all the rage these days. Even if you’re not actively investing, you probably would have felt its rise in popularity with the numerous YouTube and Facebook ads by so-called “investment gurus”. I’d hazard a guess that the financial instability and uncertainty in 2020 (now spilling into 2021) has got more people thinking about […]

Chinese New Year is a time for family, celebration, eating – and reading one too many Zodiac predictions in shopping malls.   Whether you believe it or not, it’s still fun to get some insights of the future. So we’ve put together our own 2021 Zodiac financial outlook, as adapted from thechinesezodiac.org.   Of course, […]

The talk about money cannot be missed in every Chinese New Year. If you’ve had enough of 2020, and you’re looking to make 2021 the best it could get for you, here are some pantang things to increase your luck during Chinese New Year. Don’t sweep or take out garbage All your spring cleaning should […]

“So money minded!” is usually not the nicest thing to say about someone. But if we really think about it, who isn’t money minded? We spend most of our life toiling away at work for the simple fact that we need money to finance our lives. Money is usually the source of numbing anxiety, frustration, […]

Over the past year, the entertainment sector has been one of the worst-hit industries globally, with live concert and movie box-office sales collapsing as theatres shuttered in the wake of nationwide lockdowns and coronavirus containment measures. However, in a number of Asia-Pacific markets like Japan, China, Taiwan and Australia, where outbreaks have been controlled and […]