Author: The Bedokian Portfolio

Star Wars aficionados will know this line, uttered by Darth Vader to Moff Jerjerrod, who was overseeing the construction of the second Death Star, at the beginning of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The whole dialogue started when Vader …

With gold and silver rising (and taking a breather) recently, there was talk among my various channels on another overlooked precious metal: platinum. Platinum is a silver-grey metal which is non-reactive and highly resistant to corrosion, like gold. P…

About 20 years ago, I have had heard that the average price for a typical lunch meal in Japan was between 800 and 1,000 yen, which in 2004 terms, was around SGD 12 to SGD 161. That cost, in local terms, was reserved for restaurants, not hawker centres …

The phrase above came from none other than Alfred E. Neuman. In case you did not know this person, he was neither a famous investor nor a historical figure; he is a fictional character created by the now-defunct Mad Magazine, which for those who rememb…

The markets were reeling from the latest not-so-good United States (US) consumer price index results and geopolitical jitters. With a recent capital injection and the resulting asset allocation skewness of our Bedokian Portfolio, plus a perceived delay…