Category Archive: Views & Commentaries

Part 2 on HENRY (High Earners Not Rich Yet)

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Loosely continued from last week… Private hire car stops abruptly in front forcing sharp braking, and he reverses so you can see the rude finger gesture and refuses to move until cars behind… Continue reading

Singapore’s HENRY Generation – High Earners Not Rich Yet

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A good friend was raging about her hospitalization insurance bill which SPIKED 40% higher (despite no claims for 12 years) which was a whopping $1k higher for both herself and her teenage son… Continue reading

The Great Singapore Real Estate Sale

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It just keeps getting crazier for us, the zombies. Toronto Raptors wins their very first NBA finals in history, defeating San Francisco in a bad omen for Silicon Valley even though Beyond Meat… Continue reading

Warning – Hedging is Hard Work

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Excuse us for being just a little paranoid but it has been a tough week that has continued from 2 weeks ago when we were vacillating between feeling gloom or doom after an… Continue reading

Market Thoughts – Vacillating between Just Gloom or a Worse Doom ?

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What better way to spoil a friendship, for the lack of “lunch kaki’s”, most of whom are too depressed to eat and overwrought to talk, than to start a lunch conversation by innocuously… Continue reading

The Singapore Monetary Policy Statement and the Thankless Job of Central Banking – Thank You, MAS !

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photo courtesy of Ms Su Tan of HK, taken on a wine tour of Sicily.   October is looking to be a painful month with an estimated US$ 876 billion wiped off bond… Continue reading

Nobody is Going to Actually Notice if Sibor is Higher

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Happy versus Unhappy People World happiness levels are at a 10 year low, according to a Gallup survey, as US stock markets powered to a record high on this Autumn Equinox. Yes, we… Continue reading

Running Out of Ideas a Decade After Lehman Brothers

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Why do we have all these 2020 downturn stories and Ray Dalio with a new book, A Template for Understanding Debt Crises, that he is giving away as a free PDF, all calling… Continue reading

A Tribute to the Traders of the Singapore Bond Market

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photo courtesy of Mr P.Tham   Who would have thought that chopping onions would be the perfect catalyst for the inspiration to write a post to applaud the Singapore bond market traders? Yes,… Continue reading

Not Really About The Singapore Spring Monetary Policy Statement

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April 2018 is probably the best month to have a non-G3(+China) central bank meeting because no one would be paying much attention to you in such times of market upheaval amidst geopolitical uncertainties.… Continue reading