If you’ve started investing or are learning about investing, you’ve probably heard of the term ‘expense ratio’.
But what exactly is an expense ratio?
How does it work and why does it matter?
Keep reading to find out the answers … Read more
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No one likes paying fees.
Fees are an additional cost to products or services that, more often than not, we can’t avoid paying, which means that we end up paying more than otherwise if there were no fees.
And I … Read more
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Which is better – the S&P 500 or a World index?
Or, more specifically, is CSPX (representing the S&P 500) or VWRA (representing the FTSE All-World index) better?
If you’re thinking about investing in global ETFs, this dilemma is … Read more
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Why You Should Start Investing ASAP
If you’re into personal finance, you’ve probably heard and read a lot about investing.
Perhaps you know that you should start investing, but for one reason or another, you haven’t taken that first step.
There are certainly many reasons to … Read more
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5 Investing Takeaways From 2021
As 2021 draws to a close, I reflected on my investing journey over the past year to look for my lessons learnt.
While taking note of the mistakes that I’ve made and the realisations I’ve come to after putting more … Read more
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How Do Accumulating ETFs Work?
If you’re familiar with ETFs, you probably know that they can differ in the way they handle dividends depending on whether they’re Distributing (Dist) or Accumulating (Acc) ETFs.
I wrote a post going through some of the differences between … Read more
I’ve talked a lot about Interactive Brokers (IBKR) on my blog and how they’re the best broker for do-it-yourself (DIY) investing in Singapore.
However, the biggest downside to it is that it’s not intuitive to navigate as a platform, especially … Read more
Disclaimer: All data in this post is accurate as of 15/11/21.
In my beginner’s guide to ETFs, I talked about how there are often multiple ETFs that track a single index.
For example, the S&P 500 index has many … Read more