Investing – Page 9 – GFM Asset Management

February 20, 2017Investing, Personal finance

How I invested my first 10 years of savings, bonuses and 401(k)/IRA contributions and top 10 lessons learned

Of all the habits I started early in my career, I would rank the habit of paying myself first, saving at least […]

February 15, 2017Investing, Personal finance

Funding your 2016 and 2017 IRA now and automatically – the #MillionDollarDifference

There are still two more months before the April 16th, 2017 deadline to make a 2016 contribution to your Individual Retirement Arrangement […]

February 7, 2017Investing

Understanding the "Fiduciary Rule" and why investor education is so important

Update on March 8th: Tony Robbins recently posted a video similarly emphasizing investor education on Investopedia. Last Friday, US President Donald Trump […]

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February 3, 2017Investing

10 Emerging Markets to Watch in 2017: The Closed-End Fund Sentiment Indicator

I have long been a fan, observer, and investor in emerging markets, ranging from the most frontier the most developed of emerging […]

January 16, 2017Investing, Lists

Top Hong Kong listed ETFs by volume, expense ratio and board lot size

Hong Kong still has a “board lot” requirement that shares of stocks, ETFs, and other HKEX exchange-traded securities still be traded in […]

December 27, 2016Investing

Brief Review of @Motif Investing Platform

This year, I started looking at the Motif investing platform, and for my clients, offering managed accounts through Motif Advisor. Basically, Motif is […]

December 19, 2016Books, Education, Investing

A 63-year chart of US Interest Rates and the 35-year old bond bull market

I love long-term charts, and recently started re-reading the 5th edition of Jeremy Siegel’s classic “Stocks for the Long Run“. Being naturally […]

November 8, 2016Investing

Performance of the GFM Singapore 20 vs the Straits Times Index Tracker Fund 2016

In Hong Kong, we aim to outperform the Hang Seng index through a proprietary selection of stocks we believe are higher quality and/or better valued than the market-cap weighting of the 50 stocks of the index, and in most cases in Hong Kong we also try and avoid low-float companies. For the 12 months ending […]