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Why a $200,000 Stock Portfolio is better than a $1,000,000 Property (Ongoing Article)
Surprisingly not clickbait. I draw on statistical public data to demonstrate that property investing locally is a weaker option than ever.
The Original Money Maverick
Jun 15, 20245 min read
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CPF-Shielded Retiree 'Loses' OVER $874,000 from 2024 Changes! The Bittersweet Satisfaction of Being Right
Through my entire career, I have had the occasion to warn people about relying too heavily on CPF. CPF Life began to gain popularity...
The Original Money Maverick
Feb 21, 20246 min read
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How to Qualify to Advice on F.I: Lessons for Both Readers and FAs to Take
What we can learn about Financial Advice from SG's No 1 Investment Blogger.
The Original Money Maverick
Dec 25, 20236 min read
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The Worst Investment I Made - Losing Almost $50,000 in Hard Earned Money
Sometimes my readers and clients look at me like I am infallible. This is simply not true - rather, I use my knowledge to help them...
The Original Money Maverick
Nov 1, 20237 min read
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I Made a Whole Life Plan MUCH More Cost-Effective than a Term Plan - Again? (Sort of)
2 years ago, I wrote this article. READ ALSO: I Made a Whole Life Plan MUCH 'Cheaper' (?) than a Term Plan Predictably, a butt hurt noob...
The Original Money Maverick
Oct 21, 20239 min read
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I'm Getting Married - Why and How I Brought Up My Prenuptial Agreement
This is the first in a multi-series set of articles that both seek to educate and update on my personal life. I am looking to conduct a...
The Original Money Maverick
Aug 19, 20236 min read
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How Unethical Investing Gave Us MANY TIMES MORE MONEY Than the Average Investor
In this article, I go over how a controversial approaches to investing yielded the highest market result for myself and clients.
The Original Money Maverick
Mar 15, 20237 min read
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Frequently Asked Questions About Financial Concerns, Issues, and Answers From Gay Clients
As a staunch Christian, I make no attempt to suggest that I am an ally or always have been an ally to LGBT groups. But as a Christian and...
The Original Money Maverick
Feb 25, 20237 min read
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No Longer a Millionaire - My Whole Investing Portfolio (November 2022) and a 20% Return Every Month
Fresh off a HIGHLY EXTENSIVE RESEARCH DOCUMENT on Energy (which if I'm honest I didn't put in as much time as I should to understand), I...
The Original Money Maverick
Feb 15, 20239 min read
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I Expose My Whole Portfolio Beginning in 2021: My Risks Do Have Limitations!
This article initially begun drafting Early December and was updated in Early January 2022 As a reader of Financial Blogs for quite a few...
Money Maverick
Nov 16, 20227 min read
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How to Prevent Money Maverick's Worst Investing Year - a Loss of Almost 40%
Last year was a pretty humbling year for me. After 4 solid years of beating the SNP500's results, the end of 2021 wasn't even close....
The Original Money Maverick
Oct 22, 20226 min read
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I Discovered A GUARANTEED 15% Property Rental Return with Pros and Cons
A short while back I received an invite-only introduction to an investment: 'A 15% Guaranteed Property Rental Return, Capital...
Money Maverick
Feb 17, 20225 min read
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Financial Freedom: An Interview with the Original Money Maverick on Early Retirement by 36
This article was created after a financial review conducted with Luke Ho in 2021, who was the author's Financial Consultant/Investment...
Money Maverick
Jan 19, 20229 min read
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Financial Freedom Lessons From A Thai Escort
TRIGGER WARNING: The following content has descriptions of tragedy, sex, abuse, self-injurious behavior. Read at your own risk. The...
Money Maverick
Jan 5, 202218 min read
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New Opportunities: The Role of Stablecoin Deposits in Modern Asset Allocation
In every portfolio we hold a cash element, used for buying investment dips or acting as a buffer for our day-to-day necessities. Cash is...
Money Maverick
Dec 29, 20215 min read
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How You Could Do Better Than The '18% Annualized' Investment Advertised
As an avid reader of this blog, I have always found posts on unethical entities amusing to read ( Read -> taking down unethical...
Money Maverick
Nov 17, 20215 min read
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How Money Mavericks Developed 9 Streams of Income Before Turning 30 (and how to get started)
Talking about multiple income streams has been all the hype, I decided to write one to talk about our experiences. By 'Our', I refer to...
Money Maverick
Nov 10, 20216 min read
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Introducing The New Money Maverick: How I Got Here and What's Next
Hi everyone, I'm Seth. I hope I will be better known as Money Maverick. By now, I hope that everyone has watched the previous owner's...
Money Maverick
Nov 3, 20218 min read
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Differentiation - How an Understanding of It Took My Investment from $12,000 to $45,000 in 1 Year
" Why did you decide to purchase Money Maverick?" Some of my circle were very curious about why I acquired Money Maverick and all its...
Money Maverick
Oct 21, 20216 min read
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Can My Bank Empty My Account For My Housing Loan? Featuring the 'Backdating Property' Fraud Case
Our mum didn't hit her first career break until about 8 or 9 years back. I didn't understand a lot at the time, but Mum had a new name...
Money Maverick
Oct 13, 20217 min read
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Should You Still Invest Your CPF-OA After 55?
My family likes to catch up on public holidays. Because Covid restricts the number of people in a home, it has been an interesting...
Money Maverick
Oct 6, 20216 min read
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I Made a Whole Life Plan MUCH 'Cheaper' (?) than a Term Plan
I'm going to provide some potential evidence for why 'Term Insurance' only attitudes are frankly, ridiculous. Maybe its because the...
Money Maverick
Jun 17, 20214 min read
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Why You Should Be Cautious of Investments Promising MUCH MORE Than 10% (especially without context)
Recently I was confronted by a prospect who basically mocked me, saying that my benchmark of 8% was too low and he could get better...
Money Maverick
May 26, 20214 min read
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A (Very) Small Peek Into Money Maverick's Personal Portfolio - The Problem with FIRE Pundits
I had a very enjoyable talk with a client recently. She wanted to pursue FIRE [Financial Independence Retire Early - the art of having...
Money Maverick
May 19, 20217 min read
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Which Level Of The 10 Levels of Investing Are You At? Consider An Investment Specialist.
Otherwise known as: a) Why Someone Who Has Investment Experience Should Still Consider Using a Financial Consultant, or b) How I made my...
Money Maverick
Apr 18, 20218 min read
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How to Lose All Your Capital through P2P or Venture Capital(CoAssets, Gobear), 1M65 SG stocks, etc
In my attempt to behave myself whilst my reference check is being conducted, I've simply been doing business preparatory work. Being...
Money Maverick
Mar 17, 20216 min read
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What People Keep Getting Wrong About Annualized Returns (and why they can't get 8%).
I ALWAYS get questions about 8% returns. Aside from being a lucky Chinese number, it also tends to be the most common illustration by...
Money Maverick
Mar 3, 20215 min read
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How I Manage My Christian Faith and My Love For Money [A Christmas Article on Financial Focus]
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other....
Money Maverick
Dec 28, 20207 min read
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How a Great ILP Fund Fell - Fortress Fund A (A Review)
When I first joined the industry and realized how much I love investing, I was still a wide-eyed kid at the time. I didn't know back...
Money Maverick
Dec 18, 20204 min read
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Why CPFIS Failed Before (and why it wont fail now)
Last week, I wrote an article on CPFIS Funds. As usual, some morons people were critical that past performance doesn't equal to future...
Money Maverick
Dec 10, 20204 min read
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4 CPFIS-OA Funds With 7% Historical Annualized Returns Or Higher
A few days ago, I got a message from my client. The client was curious as to his own investment returns, so he checked, sent me back a...
Money Maverick
Nov 30, 20204 min read
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Why Investors Chose The Singapore Market (And Why They Should Give Up)
Also: How My 2019 Clients Outperformed The Straits Times Index by Over 75% YTD (and counting) ...by the way, people seem to really like...
Money Maverick
Nov 21, 20206 min read
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Investment Context: Defining a Genius and an Idiot
Context is important before you randomly select investments from something you read online, like silly reviews.
Money Maverick
Oct 21, 20205 min read
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INDIRECT LOSSES! How They Kill Your Dreams (And How Investing Will Save You)
Indirect Losses are an area which very few Financial Planners understand and account for. Learn about them here.
Money Maverick
Oct 7, 20205 min read
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Geographical Risk - How I've Comfortably Beaten The SNP500 By Double Digits Year To Date
How exploration of investments outside of the country or the US could help you as an investor.
Money Maverick
Sep 23, 20205 min read
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Don't Jaywalk - Because Kids Are Watching! A Lesson in Employee Management And Investing
A short article on Employees and Investing before a technical article next month.
Money Maverick
Sep 16, 20205 min read
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Why Jamus Lim Would Suggest Going Into Debt to... Make Lots of Money? (with context)
A Short Write Up explaining the pros and cons more. Please seek a detailed consult from a licensed consultant such as Money Maverick.
Money Maverick
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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Are 'Private Annuity' Plans Superior to CPF? – A Gift for FI-35 and a Lesson for Others
Answering FIi35's question from 2 weeks ago. There is an actual answer.
Money Maverick
Aug 1, 20206 min read
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Assumptions Used/All Articles
The fact that I needed to create this at all to be compliant is sad.
Money Maverick
Aug 1, 20201 min read
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Waiting to Get Started in Investing? You Lose Over $7600 A Month While You Wait!
We rarely discuss the opportunity cost associated with investing too late. It can rack up a lot.
Money Maverick
Jul 29, 20204 min read
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The RECESSION-PROOF PORTFOLIO REVEALED - and other articles I placed in the reject pile
Money Maverick's reject pile - including a Recession Proof Portfolio and other snazzy articles.
Money Maverick
Jul 15, 20206 min read
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Statistical Probability, Kicking the SNP500 and a Personal Update
I discuss Investments in the last 7 months briefly, whether there'll be another market crash and a Personal Update.
Money Maverick
Jul 11, 20205 min read
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How to Bag Yourself a Top Insurance Agent in Singapore (Version 2.0)
With Consultants dropping out of your life like flies, this could be a useful guide to nailing a good one.
Money Maverick
Jun 3, 20206 min read
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A Step by Step Tutorial In Failing to Becoming A Successful Trader [So Don't Do It]
Clear, easy to understand details on the MANY pitfalls of trading. Stay till the end, the article is shorter than it looks.
Money Maverick
May 20, 20209 min read
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Investing 101 for Covid-19 - 5 Financial Lessons to Employ in a Crisis
I summarize some of the investment lessons I've taught over the last few years to apply during a time of uncertainty.
Money Maverick
Apr 8, 20204 min read
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Shorting - Making Profits From a Falling Market...Now!
The Flip Side of Value Investing - Faster, too.
Money Maverick
Apr 1, 20204 min read
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Investment Update, Corona Virus, MDRT and a Personal Note
Some assurances for investors using some facts and figures, what Money Maverick is up to (and in future) and other things.
Money Maverick
Mar 25, 20208 min read
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Net Interest Income – How I Avoid the Largest Fees of All
Net Interest Income is a concept which enables your institutions to make huge money while you pick up the peanuts. You can do better.
Money Maverick
Mar 11, 20204 min read
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How I got an 9% dividend every year - and why I gave it up
I used to love my 9% dividend, but I had to give it up. Here's why.
Money Maverick
Feb 5, 20205 min read
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Money Maverick's 2019 Expenses
If you've ever wondered whether a Financial Consultant practiced what he preached or spent his commissions on Rolexes...
Money Maverick
Jan 22, 20206 min read
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