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Better Alternatives to UOB Stash
Disclaimer: I loved UOB One, but nothing riles me up faster than a badly marketed financial product (okay fine, a badly marketed financial product through lifestyle influencers who mislead their…
FWD 2.02% Endowment Plan is back!
For the risk-adverse, higher interest rates on your money often come tagged with multiple requirements or a reallllly long maturity period. However, there’s a disruptive new offering that doesn’t require…
More Accountability Needed in Influencer Marketing
The Beautiful Teeth Whitening Kit, which was popularised by various social media influencers and sold like hotcakes earlier in the year, has now been confirmed to be potentially harmful by the…
How to spot a MLM scheme
MLM (Multi-Level Marketing), also known as pyramid selling, is a controversial marketing strategy where the revenue of the MLM company is obtained from the people who join the MLM. Typically,…
Financial Roadmap
Ever heard of FIRE? It’s the new age movement that is taking the world by storm – Financial Independence and Retire Early. Living in Singapore can be stressful. We’ve been…
How much can you earn as a Uber driver?
Ever wondered how much you’ll make if you quit your day job and turned to driving Uber (like Wolverine) instead? In 2015, I wrote about how I encountered a taxi…
What you should look at before buying an ETF
With a wealth of information out there today, it is easy for anyone to get lost in a sea of financial jargons and articles that keep telling you, XX things…
Should I get a HDB or a bank loan?
In my last post, I promised to elaborate more on the common dilemma faced by most new homeowners: should you get a HDB or a bank loan? To put things…
The 5 best housing loans right now
A number of readers have been asking me about housing loans lately, so I thought I’d touch on this topic today. I’m generally more inclined towards bank loans at this…
Her World Brides Feature: Bride on a Budget
Can you hold a (budget) wedding without looking cheap? The answer is, yes! See what our wedding looked like in the exclusive 6-page feature in Her World Brides (September 2017…