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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 […]

To begin with, let’s start with a quote from someone that I forgot: “When unmanaged, expenses always rise to income levels”. I think it’s a very meaningful quote, because it’s quite common to see rich executives spending lavishly, even to the extent that their savings can’t sustain their living expenses for a month. Coming to this, I read […]

It’s been some time since I last reported on my finances, how my funds are doing and how much income I’m getting. Well… my mutual funds have pretty much gone back to the pre-correction levels, so it’s pretty good that I’m still having a little bit of profits, somewhere within the region of 3-4%. It’s […]

The market had given many investors a bad belated Chinese New Year present and I’m one of those investors affected. In fact, bad is an understatement. Well… just these past 2 days, my overall portfolio had dropped over 6%, which is enough for most investors to declare the end of their investing journey. From a […]