Intro to Smart Beta Passive Investing for Singaporeans
Some of us who have been investing for some time may feel very strongly about our stock or financial securities selection criteria. Some of us …
Passive Investing
Would Bond Funds Die Like the Volatile Early 1980s?
I have not seen bond yields this low before. As we entered 2021, the 10-year US government bond yields have recovered to 1.11%. Recovery in …
Should We Add MSCI World Small-Cap ETF (WSML) to Our Passive Portfolio?
At our annual Christmas event, our head of advisory Vincent brings to our attention that there was one year where the Russell 2000 index outperformed …
Infinity Global Stock Index Fund – the Wrapper Fund for Vanguard Global Stock Index Fund in Singapore
I first introduce the Infinity Global Stock Index to readers in 2014. 5 years later, I think it makes sense to do an update since …
IWDA vs VWRA – Are There Significant Performance Differences Between the Two Low-Cost ETFs?
There are two exchange-traded funds that passive investors are considering for their long term wealth accumulation. The iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF – Ticker …
A Real Passive Allocation involves Bonds as well. How Japan’s Bonds balances up their Poor 20 year Equity Returns
I enjoy financial blogger Cullen Roche’s work at Pragmatic Capitalism a lot. What I enjoyed the most is of him trying his best to take …
A plug for Turtle Investor and his 3 ETF Portfolio for Singaporeans
We talk a fair bit about a rather passive approach to index investing in a USA context and Singapore context with the Infinity Global, STI …
A Lump Sum investment in STI ETF near the top of the Great Financial Crisis
In the past I wrote two posts sharing about a friend who starts dollar cost averaging 2 months before the great financial crisis. You can …
A 66% crash in the STI ETF vs a 200% rise
I came across a rather interesting simulation of index investing. It tries to bring readers into a discussion whether you would want the index of …
MSCI World rolling returns over 20,15,10, 5 years net of dividends reinvested
A day ago I presented the rolling results for the MSCI World Index over a long period. I missed out on the dividend reinvested. I …