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Your Ability to Spot Financial Bullshit Predicts your Financial Well-being

Andy 17th July 2022 17th July 20220

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 – 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵.

Financial Literacy Lesson #3 – Stop the goalposts from moving

Andy 22nd May 2022 22nd May 20222

We should stop once we’ve had enough.But what is “enough” for you?Would you recognize “enough” when you saw it? Have you written down your $$-amount that you consider enough? And how often has this $$-amount changed over the years? Do…

Is the Home Bias good or bad for you?

Andy 13th March 2022 13th March 20222

Where do you think Singaporean investors rank in terms of domestic equity allocation in % of total equity? Do we have more or less than 50% of our equity invested in the Singapore stock market? … From my anecdotal encounters…

Have we reached peak oil demand yet?

Andy 6th June 2021 6th June 20210

Could it be that we have seen the peak in global oil demand back in 2019? I wouldn’t know. Due to COVID-19, experts are predicting that the oil demand peak might happen earlier than previously thought. BP says it could…

Extreme Discounting

Andy 4th January 2020 4th January 20200

It’s the time of the year again where we start out with a bag full of New Year’s Resolutions and than slowly … one by one … fail to execute them. Do you happen to have set the resolution to…

Does Indecision Bias spoil it for you too?

Andy 10th March 2019 10th March 20190

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…

Are you invested in Africa?

Andy 24th February 2019 23rd July 20211

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…

It’s about time to remind myself of the 25 traits of the perfect stock investor

Andy 31st October 2018 31st October 20184

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…

Is such a kind of “bull market” sustainable?

Andy 26th October 2018 27th October 20180

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…

Would you please take care of your PFC

Andy 31st August 2018 31st August 20180

My apologies, in case I puzzled you, but we do love our acronyms here in Singapore. I have mentioned the PFC previously under the “Framing Bias” but to expound further, the PFC is your Prefrontal Cortex; a brain region that lies…

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