After Universal Assets Group (UAG) and Assets Wine Management (AWM) went into trouble, another wine company seems destined to follow suit. According to my sources, the company is still around but is having trouble giving back the wines that clients have bought. The firm seem to have used the same batch of wines [...]

There was a report on Wednesday’s (13th April) edition of The Straits Times about the staggering returns that a novice fund produced in 2009 (Novice investment fund outperforms big guns). I decided to check out that fund’s website.

According to the article, the fund was named by Thomson Reuters as the “best [...]

In Singapore, we are used to the practice of adding new rules and regulations whenever we encounter problems. This would seem logical, new problems, new solutions right?

By applying new rulings, we would probably be adding complexity. The problem may be solved, but new issues can be created a well.

A investor claimed he lost $350K of his CPF monies investing in shares in a ministerial dialog. 1 minister was quoted as saying “Most investors lost money because they are not savvy”.

Does this mean that savvy investors don’t lose money? What’s the meaning of being ‘savvy’? The freedictionary.com [...]

Instead of making money, many investors have done exactly the opposite. One of the reasons is the focus on the returns instead of the outcome. Read the Don’t Miss The Big Picture why an investor should focus on the big picture.

Investment scams have become more creative. No longer can the investor just rely on tell tale signs of unrealistic returns to separate the sheep from the goats. We offer some questions to ponder before investing. Read the article – Sounds To Good To Be True? It Probably Is to [...]