How Much is Enough?

How much is your retirement fund? Is your retirement fund enough for you to retire comfortably? These are few of the popped-up messages in my daily news reading. There are numerous online articles discussing retirement plan. Suggestions for saving target of retirement fund are given ranging from an amount 10 times more than your salary …

How to Beat Investing Mammoth

Last Friday, March 29th, Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), one of the investment mammoths of Malaysia announced its dividend distribution of a record high of RM15bil for the financial year ended Dec 31, 2018. The same article said PNB has successfully maneuvered through a challenging economic environment in 2018 to achieve a 6.9% increase in assets …

How to Handle Market Volatility?

Last week I accidental came across an investment coaching video entitled “How to Handle Market Volatility?” I thought this would be very helpful lesson when we are now in the midst of market extreme volatility. In fact I would say, it is a very good teaching. The gist of the lesson is during market volatile …

December Market Analysis

The Big drop overnight yesterday in the US markets became headlines over major news carriers causing some attention or fear from investors worldwide. However, a closer look at the chart would tell that the drop was not a severe phenomenon but rather it was merely a “buyer protest” of their disappointment over the mixed or …

When the Two Elephants Fight …

With the high surge in Asian markets on Friday, investors were given a breather out of the trade war threats for the past 2 weeks. Will such a surge be a recovery process from recent market rout or just a technical rebound positioning for further dip next week?  Let’s explore some background works before coming …