Justina on December 4th, 2009

Basically, Mr Ng was 31 when he ’set his plan in motion’. Initially he was invested in unit trusts. But he had read Robert Kiyosaki’s ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad‘ before, and decided to sell off his unit trusts and in 3 years, manage to acquire enough dividend paying stocks to meet his monthly expenses.
This [...]

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I was reading wilco’s “Media Server Solution” when I saw his recommendation of Plex for Mac. I’ve been looking for such an app, and so I checked it out and boy is it cool. It makes me want to run out to buy a mac mini just so I can hook it up to the [...]

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Justina on April 8th, 2009

The market has been rather volatile, and thus I managed to make some money off it. Not millions of dollars unfortunately, but much better than CPF returns! So far, year-to-date I’ve managed to make realised gains of $969 off just 2 stocks. On average, it’s already more than twice what CPF interest pays, and only [...]

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Justina on April 16th, 2008

I’ve been playing around with shares and funds over the past few months, using the logic that even if I do lose $$, the sums would be small, and it counts towards “educational fees”.
I have learnt a few things:
1) No point playing the stock market with little capital.
It’s harder to make money with [...]

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