Ching Poy Seng

Investors need to know when to be on the offensive and when to be defensive. One way of doing so is by using the ‘trend following’ approach.

Protecting capital in a market downturn

One way to do so is to employ trend following, as did eminent investors Paul Tudor Jones and George Soros

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Can transformative businesses such as AI reward most investors over time?

Previous instances show it is extremely hard to pick the long-term winners

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Investing in a bubble

Should investors just sidestep the bubble, short it, or ride it with or without safety belts?

The question for investors is whether they want to grow their money quickly or slowly, while bearing in mind the degree of difficulty and chances of success for each approach.

Taking the emotions out of investing

Managing investors’ emotions and behaviour has an outsized impact on their long-term return

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, testifies at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on immigration, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 30, 2009. Greenspan said that illegal immigration makes a "significant" contribution to economic growth by providing a flexible workforce. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg News

Trend following amid irrational exuberance

It can help investors to protect their capital during market downturns and ensure that they can also stick to their portfolios through...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 06: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on August 06, 2024 in New York City. Stocks opened up slightly up in the three major indexes a day after the Dow Jones and the S & P 500 had their worst day of trading since 2022, amid a global market sell-off centered around fears of a U.S. recession.   Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
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Combining ‘value investing’ and ‘trend following’ strategies to beat market returns?

It can help investors to achieve good returns with substantially lower losses. It might even beat the market if the strategy is...

“Trend following” not only helps investors to stay and profit from the rising trend, but also to reduce losses, especially in a severe decline.
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Trend following versus Buy-and-hold

At the end of the day, investors would need to choose between a higher level of wealth or a lower drawdown

Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway., during the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2022. Berkshire Hathaway delivered about 20.5 per cent annually from 1965 to 2018.
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Learning from the world’s greatest investors on avoiding investment scams

IT IS sad to hear about more and more people falling into investment scams. The misfortunes have led to billions of dollars...