Behavioural Finance – What’s your favourite bias?
What’s Behavioural Finance? If you haven’t come across the term “behavioural finance” before, then it’s something I’d suggest that every investor gains at least a working knowledge of. In a nutshell, behavioural finance is the study of the effect of...
Active or Passive Investing – which do I chose?
Background & History There have increasingly been two distinct, opposing schools of thought around investment methodology over recent years: “Active” (the traditional approach over many decades) in which a fund manager picks stocks that they believe to...
REITs – Pros and Cons of “Virtual Property” investment?
So, what is a REIT? A “REIT” (Real Estate Investment Trust) is, quite simply, an investment asset type in the same way that a “Bond” or an “Equity” is an investment asset type. Just as an “Equity” (e.g. as identified by...
Portfolio Analysis Basics #4 – Focus on “Asset Type Diversification”
Diversification can be neatly summed up by the well-known phrase “not putting your eggs in one basket”. In the context of investing, the “eggs” can be thought of as the funds or other assets held within the “basket” of a portfolio....
What is this site for, exactly?
I’ve created the site for three purposes:
• “Advice”: to share tips, tricks and general pointers on a number of topics that I often find myself answering questions on, such as “why are you…”, “how do you…” and “what do you think of…”.
• “Music”: to share the music I’ve composed, played and produced (with some potentially music-techie commentary on the process and tools involved).
• “Personal Finance”: to share general thoughts on investing and to highlight problem scenarios for which I can offer solutions in my role as a certified Financial Adviser in Singapore.