All posts tagged with "Investing".
The Fed raised rates this week for the first time since 2023, and every feed has a table of what happens next. We ran all six first hikes since 1994 on free public data — US shares, gold and the STI, in Singapore dollars — with the usual outcome beside every number. The one-month dip is real; the rest is six observations.
The 30-year US Treasury yield is back at levels last seen before the global financial crisis, and the headlines say the bond market is coming for shares. So we took every month since 1954 and asked what actually happened after the 10-year yield rose. The answer is calmer than the coverage — with one condition attached, and it is not the one the headlines are watching.
Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO, and no price exists yet. Here's how RE is thinking about the valuation math, how it compares to the SpaceX listing, the "next Google" argument, the China competition risk — and, in first person, what RE personally plans to do about it.
It is the most reasonable-sounding plan in investing: hold the cash, wait for a pullback, buy the discount. We tested it across a hundred and fifty years of market history. The problem is not that it fails when the dip comes — it is how often the dip never comes at all, and what that costs while you wait.
Gold is now the biggest ETF on the Singapore exchange, and the case for owning some — debt, debasement, negative real rates — is everywhere. This piece does not argue that case or its opposite. It answers the question that comes after: which of the five ways to own gold fits the job you are hiring it for, and what does each one actually cost?
Korean retail investors put billions into 2× Samsung and SK Hynix funds this June. Five weeks later, S$10,000 in that fund was worth S$1,351 — while the stock itself had merely halved. Yet on other markets the same structure made fortunes. What separates the two is not the product. It is whether you can sit through the path.
Singapore abolished estate duty in 2008, but US shares and US-domiciled funds above US$60,000 remain exposed to US estate tax of up to 40% — even in a Singapore brokerage account. An interactive look at how the rule works, and what changes it.
A stage-based framework for laying the financial foundations that matter most in your 30s — before chasing higher-return, higher-effort strategies.
