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Cash, courage and collateral: The share financing debate

Leverage investing is a seductive but high-risk move where most lose everything. Experts help Howie Lim navigate this danger with tools like the portfolio pyramid.

Many families are realising that wealth transfer is the new frontier of risk management.
Opinion & Features

Why two-thirds of Singapore’s wealthy fear their legacy won’t last – and what must change

How to engineer portfolios that can survive human behaviour

Singapore also offers depth through a mature wealth-management sector with trustees, banks and advisers experienced in private markets, cross-border structures and other operational demands.
Opinion & Features

Why Asia’s family offices are moving to multi-hub models

Even as market access broadens, Singapore remains the centre for governance and oversight

OpenAI’s private market valuation stands at US$500 billion.
Opinion & Features

Is an AI price war about to begin?

Assumptions underpinning valuations of big US groups might be too optimistic

While Budget 2026's policy direction applies across the economy, outcomes will become more uneven, with stronger firms better able to absorb volatility, and weaker ones exposed more quickly.
Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

How policy-driven growth shifts investment risk

As Singapore Budget 2026 accelerates internationalisation and AI adoption, investors must focus on firms’ execution quality

A digital bridge is rapidly connecting rural communities across Asia's hinterlands. The next half-billion Internet users will mostly come from Asia's villages and small towns in the next few years.
Opinion & Features

Galloping across the digital bridge: rural Asia’s ‘fire horse’ transformation

The momentum behind the region’s digital bridge is now unmistakable

Chinese EV players such as BYD have transformed their brands and quality levels.
Opinion & Features

Three AI investment opportunities outside the indices

For those concerned about an AI bubble, the answer is not to retreat from global equities, but to look beyond the giants

The pre-condition for achieving a positive outcome for CPF life-cycle funds is the ability to stay invested for the long haul. This is harder than it sounds.
Opinion & Features
NEWS ANALYSIS

Is CPF’s new life-cycle investment scheme for everyone?

The portfolios’ returns will hinge on a long horizon and some hand-holding

If US exceptionalism is fading, what are the implications for investors who are mostly overweight the US because of Big Tech and AI?
Podcasts

Is US exceptionalism truly dead?

Investors must decide: US focus or diversification. Why will the US growth formula persist and where lie new opportunities? What about threats like debt sustainability and global governance changes. G...

It is useful for partners to assess their differences in income and money management strengths to determine their division of financial duties.
Opinion & Features
MONEY MATTERS

Power of two: Going from ‘mine’ to ‘ours’

Seven tips to build your shared financial future

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