Gregory Van - Endowus Insights

Investing

Keeping all of us in the dark

Kickbacks embedded in the cost of funds that users unknowingly pay for, eat into their returns over time

Personal finance

Managing tail risks: Investing & saving for your pets

Find out how you can plan your finances around pet ownership

My family contracted COVID-19 and this is what I learned

Writing while quarantined in the hospital ward, we talk about the human experience of COVID-19, statistics, and investing in markets

Webinar

Webinar: Choosing the right robo advisor in Singapore - Comparing Endowus with the rest

Find out more about how Endowus compares with the rest in the robo advisory space in Singapore.

CPF

The hunt for your nest egg, living to 100, and the hidden jewels of CPF

No one likes thinking about a nest egg. It's boring. With extended life expectancy, not planning today will affect your quality of life in the future. Do we want to live out our last years with a lower quality of life? What can we do today, for a better tomorrow?

News

Endowus raises S$23 million in new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Ventures Asia

Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia, Endowus raised S$23 million to fund future expansion.

Behaviour

Investing in your kids' future with their Chinese New Year Hong Baos 🧧

Did you know that investing your CNY hong bao since young would have gotten you 3.5X the value today?

Investing

Endowus Wealth Insights 2020

We are humbled by our clients' trust in our platform, and also glad to share our milestones for the past year as we punched through a year of volatility, with bigger ambitions to come.

Webinar

Webinar: 10x your CPF, SRS & Cash towards your life goals

Global financial markets experienced never before seen volatility in 2020 as the world came to a standstill due to Covid-19. For many, this phenomenon cast doubts on their long-term investing philosophy, with the

SRS

Billions in SRS, delayed gratification, and the need to do more now

The Science of Wealth - a new column in collaboration with The Business Times discusses the opportunity cost of leaving your SRS monies idle.

Investing

The data behind US presidents and markets

The Science of Wealth - a new column in collaboration with The Business Times discusses how investors adjusted their asset allocation prior to the US presidential election. Are these jitters warranted?

CPF

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.

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