Author: Finance Gnome

Next month’s Singapore Savings Bond (SSB) June 2024 issue offers a very attractive 3.33% average yield over 10 years. Applications close 28 May 2024 9pm. This month’s SSB yield is the 3rd highest in recent times, only surpassed by the 3.47% yield…

After a pretty good March, the markets turned back down in April. Thankfully for the portfolios, DBS and Tesla held the fort this time, cushioning the decline overall. I took advantage of the weakness in April to deploy cash into equities, details belo…

This update is super late this month because I was away on vacation in Japan with my family in the first 2 weeks of April (and spent a bomb). Side note, Japanese Yen is very low now so take advantage if you can. In March, the performance between the Fa…

With risk assets rallying hard recently, our combined portfolio has broken the S$300k mark for the first time. Slowly but surely, our portfolio is growing. Glad to hit these milestones as it encourages me to stay the course, and to stay strong and in t…

If you’ve been investing in the stock market on your own for some time now, do you know how you’re performing against S&P 500 or other benchmarks? Besides measuring your portfolio performance by its compound annual growth rate or CAGR w…