Jeffery Tan

THE WRITER IS A LAWYER AND SENIOR ACCREDITED DIRECTOR OF THE SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS. HE SERVES ON SEVERAL BOARDS INCLUDING THE GLOBAL GUIDING COUNCIL OF ONE MIND AT WORK AND THE SGLISTCOS COUNCIL

SGX RegCo’s new disclosure rules require boards to explain more clearly the reasoning behind important choices while preserving room for commercial judgment.

Boards should get ready to explain ‘why’ amid new SGX rules

2026-10-18T23:00:00.000Z
The wealthy buy time, synthesis and judgment. Everyone else is handed information and left to assemble it themselves.
THINKING ALOUD

Singapore’s wealth management success should extend to everyday families

2026-10-12T23:00:00.000Z
Behind each achievement are decisions made with incomplete information, disagreements worked through and practices refined over time.
THE BROAD VIEW

Why corporate award winners should pay it forward

2026-10-02T23:00:00.000Z
In a society that prizes self-reliance, dependence can feel like a loss of worth, but dependence is not a failure of ageing – it is part of being human.
THE BROAD VIEW

In a super-aged Singapore society, we must learn to differentiate independence from dignity

2026-09-18T23:00:00.000Z
The circular economy challenges an assumption deeply embedded in modern consumption – that when something breaks, its useful life is over. Sometimes it is. Often it isn’t.
THE BROAD VIEW

Sustainability begins with learning to repair

2026-09-11T23:30:00.000Z
Boards seldom destroy companies in a single meeting. They erode trust one choice at a time.
THINKING ALOUD

Boards need to pay attention to their invisible balance sheet

2026-09-02T23:00:00.000Z
For more than six decades, Singapore’s greatest natural resource has been neither land nor minerals, but people.
THINKING ALOUD

Singapore must be prepared for a race that is always changing

2026-08-10T23:00:00.000Z
Psychologists have long distinguished solitude from loneliness. Loneliness is unwanted isolation. Solitude is chosen aloneness – and increasingly recognised as restorative rather than harmful.
SWITCHING LANES

What I’ve learnt from solitude in retirement

2026-07-31T23:00:00.000Z
Fifa sparked global controversy when it rescinded the red card given to US striker Folarin Balogun amid pressure from US President Donald Trump to review the decision.

The Fifa red card fiasco is a mirror for governance

2026-07-09T09:00:00.000Z
Singapore’s next generation of listed companies has the potential to reshape perceptions of the local equity market.

The new currency of markets is narrative; SGX companies must learn to master it

2026-06-07T23:00:00.000Z