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I just can’t sleep tonight… not just yet… The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is being held as I’m typing. This meeting may play an important role as to how stocks will perform over the next few weeks. Everyone is expecting a 25 basis point cut, which is equilvalent to 0.25%. Anyway, I belong to […]

As some of you may have noticed, I sold away my mutual funds just before the recent correction. While many people were throwing insults at their brokers, I was quietly breathing a strong sigh of relief. Then, my friends started asking me about my rationale for dumping all my mutual fund holdings, since I appeared […]

Two days ago, I finally decided to sell off all my mutual fund holdings. The decision was made after a few days of internal struggling and I decided that it is not worth keeping the funds emotionally. I still do not know the deal prices that the funds will get sold at, but I would guess that […]

I just looked through my Mutual Funds portfolio and noticed something interesting. Out of seven funds that I am holding, only one has not turned a profit yet. It is even more interesting as I dug out my previous posts and noticed that I once blogged that this fund may be my worst performing fund. […]

I have been seeing many posters on Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs) recently and they are basically promoting ETFs as having superior performance compared to Mutual Funds. Of course, there are many people who would look at these posters and shout “Oh! It’s SGX who puts up these posters, they got to be right since they […]