Investment

I was born five years after Singapore’s independence. My late father came from Malacca during his teenage years to work for the Singapore Traction Company, which ran trams. It was a blue-collar [...]

Did you know that Dave Butler, Co-CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), was a former professional basketball player? Standing at over two metres tall, how did he come to and stay in his role at [...]

Having a roof over your head is one of the necessary aspects of life. However, nowadays, many people in Singapore view properties as an investment and often even prefer these over equities. So, [...]

With the latest changes to investment-linked policies (ILPs), many investors may be contemplating the inclusion of this product in their investment portfolios. This prompted our CEO, Chris, to [...]

It is inevitable to avoid crises or market downturns during your long-term investment journey. While we acknowledge that some turbulence is normal in any flight, it doesn’t guarantee our [...]

In the past two decades, we have not used investment-linked policies (ILPs) when constructing investment portfolios for our clients because we do not deem them suitable. However, over the years, [...]

At Providend, we’ve always advocated an evidence-based approach when investing your money and do not attempt to time the market. One might assume that, as long as you invest your money this [...]

More often than not, many investors assume that once they have completed their wealth plan when they are younger, they do not need to revisit it. However, this is not a reliable approach to [...]

It is Saturday evening, January 28th, and I find myself sitting with a group of close friends in one of their homes. It is still the Lunar New Year season, and we are having a game of Texas [...]

Over the past months, during the various webinars that I did, I have been asked this same question several times: How does Providend ensure that our client advisers always do the right thing for [...]

After finding the right instrument to invest in, the next question many investors might have is whether they should invest their entire amount all at once (Lump Sum) or spread it out over a few [...]

The third quarter of 2023 has been a challenging three months, as the MSCI All Country World IMI Index and the Bloomberg Global-Aggregate, our references for equities and bonds respectively, both [...]

Investment-Linked Policies (ILPs) have always been a heavily debated and controversial topic among investors. To make matters worse, there are multiple types of ILPs being sold, and all with [...]

At Providend, in order to help our clients achieve enough returns in the most reliable way to enable their life goals and life events, we started using the Ibbotson-Chen Model early this year to [...]

When I first started my career in the financial services sector in the late 90s, comprehensive financial planning was not widely practised. Most of the time, it was really just product sales. I [...]

“When you say people get free advice here, I laughed because in the end when you think about how this world works, nobody works for free. So you are paying for what you are getting somehow. [...]

As we appear to take a ‘passive’ approach to investing by not doing the typical tactical asset allocation (TAA) or market timing approach, many seem to think that nothing much is done [...]

In the past quarter, we have seen multiple trends emerging in the investment market, most notably the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI). Many investors watching the AI trend are curious [...]

From time to time, we will get this question about the way we manage wealth for our clients: “why should clients pay you an ongoing advisory fee if you take a “passive” instead of an “active” [...]

Property prices in Singapore have been rising for the past few years, particularly for landed projects, despite higher mortgage interest rates and government cooling measures. It is no surprise [...]

At Providend, we appear to take a “passive” approach to investing by not doing the typical tactical asset allocation (TAA), stock/fund selection or market timing approach, so it might seem that [...]

“There have been many bad money decisions because I know how to buy (stocks) but I don’t know how to sell!” In many industries like healthcare and legal, it is a norm for people [...]

Aside from conventional investment assets like stocks and bonds, there are other alternative investments that investors can consider. Among these, investing in private equity is deemed to be more [...]

With all the buzz surrounding Singapore Treasury Bills (T-Bills) over the past 18 months due to its rising yields, our CEO, Christopher Tan, took the opportunity to explain the nature of these [...]

Interest rates had been on a steep rise since last year as central banks around the world moved quickly to fight inflation. I previously wrote about how higher interest rates impact leveraged [...]

Bonds are not typically the best asset class if there is unexpected inflation, but one type of bond which investors use to keep pace with the inflation rate is the Treasury Inflation-Protected [...]

On a recent episode of Providend’s Money Wisdom Podcast, I was asked a bonus question about retirement strategies that plan for a drawdown of one’s capital versus perpetuities. I shared that for [...]

We all know Kyith as the brain behind Investment Moats, Singapore’s most well read financial blog, but how much do we know about his motivations and money values that led him to where he is [...]

With so many new and exciting investment products on the market now, how do you assess which are suitable to be included in your portfolio? In this episode, our Head of Investment, Cheng Chye [...]

In a competitive investment environment where everyone blindly strives for the highest return, Providend firmly believes that our client’s needs drive our investment philosophy and hence [...]