Tag Archive: featured

Dying For Their Money

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This post was published first in http://www.ezfx.com and reproduced with permission.   A good friend of mine just returned after celebrating Xmas and New Year’s day in Bhutan, not before unsentimentally liberating herself… Continue reading

Singapore Corporate Bonds 2017 : No Rain, No Rainbow

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2016 has been a great hunting year for some investors, taking advantage of one of the darkest periods in Singapore bond market history to pick up obscene bargains while others footed the price.… Continue reading

Ad Hoc Commentary – 2017 heralds in The Great American Total Solar Eclipse and Orwellian 1984

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It is a tradition for the Federal Reserve to hold an annual policy symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming in late August: “…Each year, participants from across the globe gather in Jackson Hole, Wyo.,… Continue reading

Eat, Pray, Love – Stressed Out Singaporeans And The Singaporean Economy

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Photo courtesy of Mr KC Kan, on his mission to Nepal.   Bye Bye Golden Shoe – The Infuriating and Inaccessible CPI Basket Bus fares reduced by 4.2% from Dec 30, with fewer… Continue reading

Locker Room Talk : Trump’EM Down but Not Out for Singapore

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  Brexit times five or Brexit times ten ? Feels like that moment in that Rocky movie with Stallone floored, bruised and bloodied. And we have been warned on Brexit by Moody’s and… Continue reading

The US Vice Presidential Election and The Future of USD

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This post was published first in http://www.ezfx.com and reproduced with permission.   We know that the US elections is affecting more people than ever this time when Singaporean and Malaysian taxi drivers have… Continue reading

Q4: More of the Same?

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Photo courtesy of Ms Eleanor W., Perth, W.A..   Three quarters into the year, let’s take stock of where we are in terms of performance across the different equity and credit asset classes… Continue reading

FX Musings : Expecting An Unanimous MAS Monetary Policy Statement

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      A recalcitrant thought after this month’s Bank of Japan meeting and the FOMC, is why not just subcontract our central banking jobs to them for a while ? If the… Continue reading

Singapore Real Estate : A Landlord’s Insights 2016

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Photo courtesy of Ms Jeannie Tan, wildlife photographer, SF.   Back in 2013, friends and I arrived at the conclusion that the anchor of Singapore’s wealth lay in the thousands per square foot… Continue reading

A primer on Fishmeal

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*Disclaimer: The World Fisheries industry is rather poorly covered and reported. Research material and figures are often estimates given that there is always IUU (illegal, under-reported, under-regulated) activities on going. For the largest… Continue reading