One of my main missions as a fee-only investment advisor is to shine light on how every day professionals can best save and invest for retirement, and know exactly what they’re paying for such services and what they get from those services. I was glad to see this latest Barron’s article highlighting US teachers’ 403(b) […]
Your bank is probably the worst place for you to keep any more money than you plan to spend in the next 1-3 months. For years, I have downgraded from HSBC premier and Standard Chartered priority banking to the most basic service levels of each, so that I only keep about 1 month’s expenses in […]
When coming up with lists of stocks to avoid investing in, starting with companies with the most excessive executive compensation can often be a good place to start. While I do believe top-talented executives should be paid well for making us shareholders wealthier, I feel I get a better sense each year of which multi-million […]
Webb-site.com recently wrote about the vote yesterday to take Hopewell Holdings (SEHK: 00054) private at a roughly 40% discount to book value. This is still a premium to its earlier trading price of more than 60% below book value, so investors in 00057.HK still made money, though not as much as if the whole book […]
This tweet by @nategeraci, @cerulli_assoc and @daniilatcerulli was one of those I found good enough to share and save here for future reference. It ranks what non-ETF users are currently looking for and waiting for before using ETFs. The first and third ones are the most obvious: about half of non-ETF users surveyed said they […]
Anand and I are long time fans and students of Warren Buffett. The recent news that the legendary investor’s firm Berkshire Hathaway lost $2.7 billion last month on their stake in Kraft-Heinz did not reduce my respect and admiration of his wisdom by even one bit, but of course drove me to ask how I […]
Today’s infographic comes from Bloomberg, whose article on the soon-to-be open bridge from Hong Kong to Macau and direct high-speed train to Guangzhou included a bubble map of the relative GDPs of the “Greater Bay Area”. At the turn of the century, I lived in San Francisco where I often heard the term “Bay Area” […]
Interview with Jose Allan Tan of Enterprise Innovation on Fintech, AI, and Robo-Advisors
Tune in Saturday, Feb 17th at 8:30am to RTHK Money Talk Xtra, where Peter Lewis and I explain convertible bonds and how every day investors can understand and decide whether to invest in them.
Today we completed another successful webinar with SGX and Interactive Brokers explaining how everyday investors can use currency futures contracts to access and hedge FX risk at institutional prices in the US$5 trillion/day currency market. Feel free to contact me for a copy of the spreadsheet, or information on how to sign up for our […]