When I first reviewed my CPF balances, the phrase “Special Account housing withdrawal” sounded straightforward. I assumed the money in the account might be…
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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,…
The excitement was almost tangible. After months of reading prospectus filings, watching grey market whispers on Telegram groups, and pestering my broker with…
For the past three years, I have been logging my own CPF statements in a spreadsheet, line by line, every quarter. What began as a casual check on monthly…
The Financial MTC began as a way to log the everyday numbers of life in Singapore, from CPF balances to the latest SSB rates, and slowly turned into a habit of…
Living in Australia gives me a strange advantage when I look at the Singapore Exchange. The eight-hour time difference between Sydney and Singapore means I can…
Durian is often treated as a luxury purchase, but the experience can vary dramatically by cultivar, harvest timing, origin and storage. Musang King and Black…
Singapore's GST Voucher scheme is a piece of fiscal machinery that I had only vaguely noticed until I started tracking my monthly outgoings more carefully. The…
For roughly a decade now, I have kept a personal ledger of every dollar that lands in my Central Provident Fund accounts. The entry I look forward to most…