Few foods divide opinion quite like durian. The spiky fruit with the infamous aroma is worshipped across Southeast Asia, treated with suspicion in many Western…
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A small-cap stock can look simple on an SGX price screen: a low share price, a modest market value and a few years of financial history. The annual report…
Singapore Savings Bonds have become one of the quieter parts of my personal portfolio. They do not provide the drama of an SGX stock or the satisfaction of…
A missed CPF contribution deadline can mean different things depending on who was supposed to make the payment. For an employee in Singapore, the employer is…
I use my budgeting app as a record of what actually happened, rather than as a perfect forecast of what should happen. Singapore spending can look tidy in a…
A high dividend yield can look attractive when interest rates are uncertain and household budgets are under pressure. Yet the percentage shown beside an SGX…
Rambutan and cempedak are the sort of fruits that make a grocery receipt interesting. They may appear briefly, arrive in uneven quality, and change price…
When I first reviewed my CPF balances, the phrase “Special Account housing withdrawal” sounded straightforward. I assumed the money in the account might be…
Singapore is a useful place to examine the cost of keeping a car because the purchase price tells only a small part of the story. A vehicle may provide…
For anyone who has set money aside for a rainy day, the question is always the same: how do you keep it safe, easy to reach, and quietly growing? In Singapore,…