Strategies of a financial advisor (Sunday Times 24 Jan)
Jan 24, 2010
Strategies of a financial adviser
Options and CPF may offer better returns than stocks and fixed deposits
What do financial advisers do with their own money that most individuals don’t do? I can’t speak for advisers as a group, but I can give you a selection of insights into my own strategies. But bear in mind that these approaches may not be suitable for everyone.
I don’t use fixed deposits
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Does Divorce Make People Happy? (Smart Marriage)
Does Divorce Make People Happy?
Findings from a Study of Unhappy Marriages
By Linda J. Waite, Don Browning, William J. Doherty, Maggie Gallagher, Ye Luo, and Scott M. Stanley
Call it the “divorce assumption.” Most people assume that a person stuck in a bad marriage has two choices: stay married and miserable or get a divorce and become happier.1 But now come the findings from the first scholarly study ever to test that assumption, and these findings challenge conventional wisdom. Conducted by a team of leading family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, the study found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced were typically any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.
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Next Terrorist Attack: Advice from an Israeli Agent
Next Terrorist Attack: Advice from an Israeli Agent
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Pay rise likely for finance workers: Poll (ST 9 Jan)
Jan 9, 2010
Pay rise likely for finance workers: Poll
Over 60% of HR execs expect hike; key reason is to attract and retain staff
FINANCIAL industry workers look like they will be in for a pay rise over the next 12 months, according to a new survey.
It found that 62.4 per cent of human resource (HR) professionals in the industry expect basic salaries within their firms to increase over the year.
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Don’t put all your bets on IRs for a rebound (ST 6 Jan)
Jan 6, 2010
Don’t put all your bets on IRs for a rebound
Services will be the star, but it’s unclear how big a role resorts will play
The buzz surrounding Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa has intensified recently, as the resorts gear up for their big openings while Singapore readies itself for a robust 2010 recovery.
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8 things to roar about in 2010 (ST 1 Jan)
Jan 1, 2010
8 things to roar about in 2010
A ferocious animal lurks as Singapore enters a brand new year. According to the Chinese horoscope, the lunar new year beginning on Feb 14 belongs to the Metal Tiger – an animal that has little to do with scandals but a lot to do with changes. What should Singaporeans be watching for in 2010?
1 Election watch
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Looking for a “better fit” (Today 26 Nov)
Rather than aim for scientific breakthroughs, sell knowledge: Researchers
SINGAPORE – The buzz words “innovation” and “productivity” have long been bandied about, in Singapore’s relentless quest to stay ahead. Now it turns out the key to this could lie in fundamentally relooking the way policy makers define the two concepts.
The first Singapore Competitiveness Report by the Asia Competitivenes Institute at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy – affiliated to Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness – was released yesterday.
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Chefs get poached (Sunday Times 22 Nov)
The chance to work in various F&B disciplines and ‘orchestrate a group of chefs’ was what made Mr John Sloane (foreground) leave his post as executive chef at the Singapore Airport Terminal Services Catering to be the vice-president of F&B and culinary operations at Resorts World Sentosa. With him are some of Resort World’s other culinary staff: (from far left) John Sim, Li Kwok Kwong, Ong Soo Wan, Matsuura Toshihisa, Alan Orreal, Edmund Toh and Danny Zhuo. — ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG
Nov 22, 2009
Chefs get poached
Established eateries are feeling the manpower crunch as the integrated resorts roll out hiring
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Measuring S’pore’s mental well-being (ST 21 Nov)
Researchers from the Institute of Mental Health are developing a culturally appropriate scale to measure the level of positive mental health in Singapore. — ST FILE PHOTO
Nov 21, 2009
Measuring S’pore’s mental well-being
Economic prosperity no longer the best indicator of societal happiness
A FEW months ago, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy announced his government’s intent to include happiness and well-being as a reflection of economic performance – eschewing the gross domestic product as the indicator of a country’s progress and prosperity.
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Slowing the flow of foreign workers to Singapore (ST 13 Nov)
 It is inevitable that foreigner numbers will continue to swell but the crucial thing is how many the country can accommodate and how fast it wants to grow, says Prof Hui. — ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
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SINGAPORE could have gone ‘overboard’ in its quest to maximise growth over the last two years before it was hit by the recession.
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Have our English standards REALLY fallen (ST 7 Oct)
Listen to the never-ending hoo-ha over Singlish and you might believe that the standards of English in Singapore have dropped drastically. But is this the case? What do the studies really say? Insight examines whether Singaporeans need to worry about their children speaking like Phua Chu Kang.
TEN-YEAR-OLD Daniel Lo Tern Xuan is pretending to be a leatherback turtle in an English-language class on a sleepy Friday morning at Princess Elizabeth Primary School in Bukit Batok.
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Lessons from get-rich courses (Sunday Times 4 Oct)
Oct 4, 2009
small change
Lessons from get-rich courses
Moneymaking classes can impart strategies but can’t buy you time or teach self-discipline
By Lorna Tan, Senior Correspondent
It is difficult to ignore the many advertisements in the newspapers these days offering different ways to create wealth from the stock and property markets.
That millionaires seem to have made their money in such ways is a big draw for many.
One advert claimed: ‘Our graduate made 7,700 per cent profit and turned $1,000 into $78,000 from forex trading in two months.’
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Business growth: A matter of connections (ST 29 Sep)
Sep 29, 2009
ECONOMIC WATCH
Business growth: A matter of connections
By Michael Frese, For The Straits Times
IN CHINA and elsewhere in the world where there are Chinese businessmen, there will be guanxi, or network relationships. Guanxi can be regarded as a network of deliberately pursued personal connections that often involve intermediaries who help by, for example, introducing business owners to the right people.
While not unique to Chinese culture, guanxi is particularly important in China for at least two reasons.
First, the cultural trait of collectivism makes guanxi central in business.
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How much is a burger worth? (ST 26 Sep)
How much is a burger worth?
According to a recent UBS survey, Singaporeans can afford to buy less than what people in many other cities can because prices here have risen more than wages. Sue-Ann Chia and Alvin Foo examine the data and explain this potentially dangerous trend.
IF SINGAPOREANS feel they cannot afford to buy as many things as they could a few years ago, they are not imagining it, according to a survey by Swiss bank UBS.
The proof, so to speak, is in a burger.
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Face up to real jobless figures (My paper 17 Sep)
I REFER to media reports on the rise in the number of chronically unemployed.
For some time, reports have focused on a declining unemployment rate which has stabilised at a seasonally-adjusted 3.3 per cent for two straight quarters.
Singaporeans have been told to be flexible in job hunting, and that retraining would help in solving the structural-unemployment predicament here.
The repeated emphasis has been on the labour market but many international reports have confirmed that we have one of the best workforces in the commercial world.
