CFA Singapore Insights

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Geopolitical shocks: What moves first and why it matters

 A portfolio career generates income across multiple streams from a mix of skills and experience. It requires intentional effort: upskilling or carving out time to explore alternative paths.
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Can the portfolio career be another piece of the retirement puzzle?

Much like the equity market prior to EQDP, the SGD fixed income market has remained in a state of relatively low liquidity and insufficient supply issuance.
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Revitalising Singapore’s bond market

Investing skill is about constructing portfolios that are aligned with one’s objectives, constraints and tolerance for uncertainty.
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What retail investors should focus on: stable market principles

While the theoretical S&P 500 grew US$1 into US$333 between 1926 and 1986, a realistic mutual fund return for that same period would have been only US$137.
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Your portfolio isn’t a century-old magical compounding machine

Viewed in isolation, tight stop-losses appear prudent. But what looks like good risk control at the trade level can become opportunity destruction at the portfolio level.
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Why tight stop-losses often hurt investors

By taking a direct equity stake, the government signals long-term commitment to domestic chip manufacturing, reinforcing Intel’s role as the only advanced semiconductor manufacturer operating at scale on US soil.
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How US state capital is reshaping strategic supply chains

While synthetic risk transfers are more standardised and transparent than pre-2008 collateralised debt obligations, their bespoke nature and limited public disclosure still make some observers uneasy about assessing the true distribution of risk.
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How scary are synthetic risk transfers?

Hurricane Melissa triggered a 100% payout of a US$150 million World Bank catastrophe bond for Jamaica.
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The growth story behind insurance-linked securities

Regulators and banks rightly treat seniors as vulnerable and try to minimise product risk. Yet, they should also be thinking about longevity risk – the danger of outliving their assets.
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From super savers to secure retirees: Rethinking how Singaporeans invest through life