Gregory Van - Endowus Insights

New CPFIS fee caps should mean better investment outcomes

The Science of Wealth - a new column in collaboration with The Business Times discusses how CPFIS fee drops should help bolster the industry.

Investing

How to start managing and investing your money (#adulting)

I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 18. My uncle opened a brokerage account for me and smirked, “Go ahead and play the market, this will be the best present anyone can give you.” I thought to myself, “I can be quick, nimble and disciplined. It can’t be that hard.”

Investing

Endowus Cash Smart: Earn up to 2% returns per year with no lock-ups or limits

There's a new way to save and grow your cash with no lock-ups and no limits. Earn up to 2% returns per year.

Investing

What would the worst investor in the world do right now?

How would you have done if you only invested at every market peak before drops of more than 20%?

CPF

Retirement planning: Chickens, eggs, and investing for retirement in Singapore

Evidence-based retirement planning: growing and sustaining your wealth through systematic investing during retirement

Investing

Living through the trenches of 1917, and the barbed wire of investment returns

Greg, our CEO, writes about how the journey of investing through the recent crisis is analogous to the award-winning film 1917 - emotional & tumultuous.

News

Security and safety of your assets

Gregory, our CEO and co-founder shares how safeguards, security and continuity are built into every layer of our platform.

Webinar

Webinar: Supercharging your CPF growth

Find out how to grow your CPF efficiently, and effectively with us as Gregory, CEO of Endowus, shares market insights and the recipe to CPF success.

Stats and resources on the Wuhan 2019 Novel Coronavirus

We wanted to share some web resources that have been helpful for us in staying up-to-date on the latest stats and news with regard to the ever-developing Coronavirus.

Investing

The biggest companies in the world

Let’s take a look back at the largest companies in the world for the last four decades.

CPF

Evaluation of CPF investment returns & benefits

We receive a lot of questions about why, given the government legislated CPF Ordinary Account (OA) interest rate of 2.5%, anyone should take risk by using their CPF to invest in the financial markets.

Investing

How Endowus calculates your performance and returns on investment

How Endowus calculates dollar value gain or loss, total return, time-weighted rate of return, and annualised internal rate of return.

ETFs & Funds

The first index fund, ever, and an introduction to Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)

You can think of the birth of index investing and what Dimensional continues doing today as just a part of the investing evolution, as curious scientists and practitioners continue to pursue the truth in the hope of a better future.

Investing

Raja Ampat and the rewards of time rather than timing

Staying invested over time is important. We just don’t know what will happen to market prices in the near future, and missing those few days can be very detrimental to your long-term returns.

Investing

The annoying efficient market hypothesis and how to beat it

Eugene Fama, 2013 Nobel Laureate, is credited with developing the Efficient Market Hypothesis, on which intelligent investment decisions can be made.

Investing

A (lack) of forecast for 2019: The key to stock market predictions

It’s safe to say that short-term predictions are fairly worthless, and paying attention to market forecasts is a wasted effort.

Investing

“Hindsight is 20/20”: Why we should stick to consistent, global diversification

Over the course of 20 years from 1970 to 1989, Japan market rose over 6,100%, US market rose 890%, and the rest of the developed world rose just over 1,100%.

Investing

Are good investors skilful or just lucky?

Michael Mauboussin believed that the reason why luck is so important in investing is not that investors are not skilful - it’s actually the opposite.

Investing

"I'll invest when the market crashes" is flawed - it's about time in the markets rather than market timing

Even the worst market timer can be way better than average investor.

ETFs & Funds

An inconvenient truth: Taxes on US-listed ETFs

Why US-listed ETFs are not necessarily cost efficient for you and me. Tax, if not careful, can shoot low-cost investing in the foot.

ETFs & Funds

Spoilt for choice: ETFs vs Unit Trusts

You walk into a restaurant, get seated, and you’re handed a book. It’s the menu masquerading as an encyclopedia - page after page, there are so many items to choose from that you can’t decide what to order.

Investing

The value risk premium in equities investing

One should have greater exposure to companies that are cheaper than their intrinsic value and how the market is pricing them.

Investing

Bonds can be an essential part of your portfolio

The media tends to almost exclusively focus on the gyrations of the stock market, but the bond market is actually the largest securities market in the world.

Investing

Unit trust investing: What are trailer fees and how do they eat into your investment returns?

When you buy a fund, you may pay your bank or brokerage (the ‘distributor’) an upfront sales fee. But what is not immediately transparent is that the fund management company pays the distributor a recurring distribution commission, or ‘trailer fee.’

Behaviour

Survivorship bias: Why you’re not seeing the full picture when it comes to fund management performance

Survivorship bias can be quite significant for the long-term investor because it can distort performance figures. As you can see, less than half of the equity funds and 57% of the bond funds survived over the 15-year period.

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