In Singapore, ‘Henry’ also worries about retiring with enough

The country’s ‘high earners but not rich yet’ are not immune to financial insecurity

In Singapore, women can expect to live four years longer than men, according to the Department of Statistics.
MONEY MATTERS

Mastering long-term wealth for women

This International Women’s Day (Mar 8), let’s close the gender gap in financial literacy and wellness

The most interesting shift in boardrooms today is the move from fear to experimentation. Human-AI partnership is not a technical upgrade, but a leadership transformation.
THE BROAD VIEW

Partner or perish: the board and C-suite must embrace AI – fast

Leaders must design intentional human-artificial intelligence partnerships instead of deploying the technology as a cost-cutting tool

Smoke billowing in central Israel from reported missiles launched from Iran on Friday (Mar 6). Geopolitical shocks in war and peacetime tend to lead to lasting fiscal expansion.

The Iran war presents a ‘guns and butter’ nightmare for investors

How long the conflict will last, and its energy impact, are unknown, but mounting global debt and inflation risks are all too real

Singapore-listed sustainability plays have underperformed the market in the immediate wake of the Feb 28 attacks in Iran.
ESG INSIGHTS

Issue 185: Sembcorp, Keppel underperform in wake of Iran attacks; Singapore makes climate adaptation plans

This week in ESG: Singapore-listed sustainability plays offer little insulation from Mideast conflict; national adaptation plan slated for 2027

The building blocks of the technology industry are deeply dependent on petroleum flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Hormuz is the hidden risk to the AI economy

The current geopolitical emergency shows that chip-producing South Korea and Taiwan need to increase the use of renewables

Retirement is a phase we have to invest in by preparing well for it. It is not something that just happens because we are getting too old for the economy.
SWITCHING LANES

Lessons from ‘pretirement’

Take a sabbatical to stare the reality of retirement in the face – if you can afford one

Researchers find that girls fare as well as boys at Go when instructed by AI instead of humans.
THE BROAD VIEW

How AI can help overcome gender bias in science

We must do what we can to ensure human prejudice does not perpetuate through technology

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's "norms and practices underpinning democracy substantially deteriorated", says one academic, yet he remains one of the world's most popular elected leaders.
THE BROAD VIEW

The paradox of democratic backsliding

Authoritarian and populist leaders are eroding civil liberties and weakening checks and balances. But many voters apparently love it. Why?