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Book Review: The Women’s Guide to Successful Investing: Achieving Financial Security and Realizing Your Goals

The author of The Women’s Guide to Successful Investing is Nancy Tengler. She has experience of managing tens of billions of dollars globally. She is also a columnist, author, financial news commentator, and university professor. This book’s primary audience is women and the author wants to increase the readers’ financial IQ. Layout of The Women’s …

EPF Dividend 2020

The Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) has declared its dividend for 2020 and the rate is 5.20% for conventional savings and 4.90% for Simpanan Shariah. I think this represents a commendable result. Dividend history As my own account is the conventional savings, I am going to list its dividend rate of the past five years. 2015: …

Book Review: The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

The author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated is Howard Marks. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, an American global alternative investment management firm with expertise in credit strategies. There are five commentators in this book and they are Bruce Greenwald, Christopher Davis, Joel Greenblatt, Paul Johnson and Seth Klarman. The …