• All blog entries
    • Calculators
    • Case studies
    • Cost of living
    • CPF Are You Ready?
    • CPF Matters
    • Credit Management
    • e-Learning
    • Estate Planning
    • Events
    • Financial advisers
    • High Networth
    • Insurance
    • Investments
    • Letters to the Press
    • Magazines
    • Others
    • Retirement Planning
    • Scams
    • Surveys
    • Tragic Stories
    • Unethical sales process
    • Videos
  • Legal
  • Testimonies
    • Individual testimonies
    • Gallery
  • My Account
Hi, looking for a fee-based financial planner in Singapore? Read this article now!
  • Home
  • About
    • About Wilfred Ling
    • Why do you run your own professional financial planning practice?
  • FAQs
    • FAQs on Wilfred Ling’s Financial Services
    • FAQs on Financial Planning
    • FAQs on Investments
    • FAQs on Insurance
    • FAQs on Estate Planning
  • Services
    • Overview
    • Create a financially secure plan for your young family (package details)
    • Retirement Planning
    • Investment Portfolio Management
    • Insurance Planning
  • Fees
  • Cool Tools
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
You are here: Home / Archives for Investments

You are viewing articles categorised under Investments

The Three Problems of Investment

11, January 2007 by Wilfred Ling Leave a Comment

"The difference between speculation and investment is that the former is concerned with large returns over the short term period while the latter is concerned with gaining reasonable returns over a long period of time. Unfortunately, most people are neither good at speculating or investing. As a professional investment adviser, I advocate investment as the method of gaining good returns. (I don’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Investments, Magazines

How to save $200k in 18 years for school fees

14, November 2006 by Wilfred Ling Leave a Comment

(This article appeared in Sunday Times on 19 February 2006) BY THE time Patrick Sin's kids are ready for tertiary education in more than 10 years or so, the costs of the courses plus living expenses for four years could total about $200,000. But the father of three is prepared. Mr Sin, a bank manager in his late 30s, uses a combination of endowment policies, unit trusts and stocks to save up for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Investments, Magazines

Total Cost of a Tertiary Education

1, November 2006 by Wilfred Ling Leave a Comment

(A concise version of this article appeared on Sunday Times newspaper 15 January 2006 entitled "A degree could cost $125,000 in 10 years" ) A LOCAL tertiary education is 860% more expensive then the entire school fees from primary school to junior college. A local medical degree is 3341% more expensive then the first twelve years of school fees. It cost $2,472 in school fees to have a student … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Investments

Risk and Reward in investments using Value At Risk

13, June 2006 by Wilfred Ling Leave a Comment

In this article, we shall examine the basic concept of risk and reward in investments and remind ourselves how risk and reward is linked. We then introduce the concept of value-at-risk. The article will conclude with practical applications for all investors. Reward from investments Investments have often being mistakenly to be similar as speculations. Speculation has to do with attempting to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Investments

Risks involved in investing in foreign ETFs

1, December 2005 by Wilfred Ling Leave a Comment

I have been advocating investing in low cost passive fund because active managed funds returns tend to produce poor returns despite the similar level of risk. In Singapore, there is limited number of choices for passive funds and most of them have problems such as high cost or poor liquidity. I personally invests in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) listed in AMEX. These ETFs which I had invested … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Investments

Lessons In The Dot.Com Era

16, September 2005 by Wilfred Ling Leave a Comment

Many of us started investment during the technology dot.com era which resulted in many losing a lot of money. Due to this bad experience, many people turned away from investment permanently. Others picked up the pieces and move on repeating the same mistakes again. To make mistakes is not unusual but not learning from the mistakes is the worst kind of mistake. In this article, we will go back in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Investments Tagged With: lose money

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21

WILFRED LING, CFA

WANT TO GET REGULAR TIPS ON FINANCIAL PLANNING?

JOIN with thousands of other subscribers in getting tips on all aspect of financial planning such as "What is the minimum salary required?", "How avoid insurance that is not suitable", etc.


WILFRED LING IN THE NEWS

Click HERE to find out more.


THE KIND OF CLIENTS I AM LOOKING FOR

NEW TO US?

Learn how you can fully benefit from this massive website: HERE

For Registered Users Only (free)


View All

For Clients Only


View All

Recent comments

  • mah weng kong on Is PruSelect Vantage plan a good or bad product?
  • Rafi on Wilfred Ling’s Story, the beginning
  • ECE7 on Wilfred Ling’s Story, the beginning
  • Tan Boon Seng on What is meant by pre-existing conditions in real life?
  • Kapil Verma on 70% loss because insurance agent did not provide review for 11 years
  • Ng Ricky on 60’s with no dependants – which insurance is a must have and nice to have?

To be notified of new blog post, like this facebook page

To be notified of new blog post, like this facebook page

Read articles based on different categories

Chartered Financial Analyst

CFA

Chartered Financial Consultant

ChFC

Featured Blogger

IM$avvy

© Copyright 2006-2023 Wilfred Ling

This advertisement or publication has not been reviewed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore

hollow-nasty
hollow-nasty
hollow-nasty
hollow-nasty