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Start Investing With Only $500 — Her World

Quite glad that an article I have been helping a writer with has finally been published. The November 2014 issue of Her World carries the article Start Investing With Only $500, and I am pleased that it even found a little spot on the cover page.

I also realised that it is quite challenging to write an article for a magazine, and also very different from writing on this blog where I have full editorial control. The article would have been quite different if I wrote it from scratch, but I suppose the end product is more fitting for a magazine. (You can view the article at the end of this post.)

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Television Interview About Gold Buyback Schemes and Gold Investment

I was recently asked to speak on a television programme catered for the elderly about the topic of dubious gold buyback schemes and a few proper ways of investing in gold.

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NTUC Income’s First Ever Bond Issue Oversubscribed

NTUC Income recently debuted its first ever bond issue of $600 million 15-year bonds which was open to the public and corporate entities. The coupon rate was 3.65% and NTUC Income has the option to redeem the bonds in full at the end of 10 years.

Oversubscribed would be an understatement: the subscription rate was 15 times its $600 million offer, a cool $9 billion which attests to the attractiveness of the returns vis-à-vis the strong credit rating of NTUC Income. (And that’s a lot of money wanting to be invested.)

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Financial Planning for Retirement

There will be a talk on retirement planning for those in their thirties to fifties this coming Saturday (4th August 2012).

In this highly sought-after interactive seminar, Wilfred Ling will speak on the topic of retirement planning. Topics include the strengths and limitations of CPF, SRS, how to invest for retirement, case studies on the advantages and disadvantages of common retirement products in the market,etc. The speaker is a practicing practitioner and therefore the talk will focus mainly on practical aspects.

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