You can’t afford to give the stock market a miss. Start now to have enough later!
Would you agree or not? Have you ever felt a drop in motivation to actively take care of your investments? If you are not intrinsically motivated, your default option is usually extrinsic motivation. That leaves you foraging for carrots (money,…
Correct, Microsoft. Microsoft has gone through a massive leadership style change in February 2014 from Steve Balmer to Satya Nadella. Under Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, Microsoft’s share price stagnated despite Microsoft’s financial success at that time. His management style was…
How do you value time versus money? Let’s first understand a crucial difference between them: As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic:…
I had a sobering meeting with a former colleague from work. We had not met for years. But I vividly remember him making a commitment at the end of our previous coffee chat in 2016 or was it 2017 that…
This will have some long-term implications. As a rational optimist, I do believe that the vast majority of the 7.6 billion people in this world wake up each morning to build a better life for themselves. The younger they are…
Sorry, what did you say? “You are a bit late with your forecast, Tacomob. It’s already February!” Well, dear reader, what’s a year anyway? It’s merely the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun. But…
Singapore is small by many standards. Certainly very small in terms of population. We only have 5.6 million residents. Roughly a quarter of municipal Shanghai or less than 0.1% (0.073% in fact) of the global population. A mighty punching-above-their weight…
A bit volatile out there recently, isn’t it? How do you feel? Calm or nervous? I choose to tell myself to stay calm and use the opportunity to refresh my memory on what I should do in order to be successful in…
After the recent days of heightened market volatility I was curious to check out how the S&P 500 component stocks have faired over the last 12 months: Hmm, looks to me as if the bull market is mainly hinged on those…
There are people out there who want to be rich—without the risk, the sacrifice, or the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate such wealth. But you and I—logically—do not belong to that group. Of course not! Well, in my case, that statement is a tiny bit of wishful…