Seems the prediction is shaping up really well. After Astrea IV 10 year 4.35% and Temasek 5 year 2.70% bonds , SIA followed their cue to release a retail tranche for their just announced bond issue. SIA will be releasing $500 mil worth of bonds, with the public being allocated $300 mil out of this and the rest going to institutional investors. Should the bond be oversubscribed, they will expand it…

Some of my friends alerted me to this post where they quote what I have written. The lady, Marianne, loves a good challenge. So she proceeded to see if she can survive on $5 a day . By all accounts, she failed. She cites the great Financial Samurai who said that if you are not hurting while you are trying to save, you are not trying hard enough. And then proceeded to throw me into the mix by saying…

I took a deep breath, straightened my chest, walked up to my boss and asked if he could spare me a few minutes “I promise it won’t take long” I said to him as he nodded agreeing to my request We couldn’t find an empty meeting rooms as we walked past a few of them and finally we had to settle down at one open empty area. We sat down and braced ourselves for the discussion. I started off by…

Growing up, I used to have some relatives and friends telling me not to buy 4D . It is one Singapore lottery that seems to be less popular as I grow older. My parents used to buy it. Strangely, non of my colleagues, or co-worker mention buying it. Now TOTO , which is another form of lottery, that is another story all together. During Chinese New Year, when the pool of money snowballs to a large…