Investing Endowus Cash Smart: Earn up to 2.2% 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 2.2% 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 Why using CPF to invest is important 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 "Buying a bond only for its yield is like getting married only for the sex” - Benjamin Graham 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.
ETFs & Funds 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.
Behaviour Pizza massively outperformed Amazon and Google Let’s rewind to the start of this decade. If you had to choose one stock through the decade for the best returns, would you have bought the cutting edge tech titans (Apple, Google, Amazon) or a company that delivers greasy pizza to your neighborhood at discount prices?
Investing That’s why I chose Yale: the endowment investment model 34x returns. That’s how much you would have made if you invested with the Yale endowment fund over the last 30 years. The Yale Investment Office has had annualized returns of 12.5% during this period.
