In my last post I talked about ASB loans vs. periodic savings, so here I’ll delve a little further into calculating returns. One of the main concerns raised is that the loan is only beneficial for as long as your returns exceed the interest rates charged by the banks. For example, if the bank charges…
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ASB Financing – how does it work?
Ages ago, I wrote a post briefly talking about ASB loans, and how they work, some people found it useful, so I thought I’d reproduce it here. One of my earliest tasks when I first started working as a personal financial consultant was to promote the ASB loan to prospective bumiputera clients. The product, offered…
Technically speaking – Corona, what corona?
Two weeks ago I ‘forecasted’ that the market would head upwards to 1470 before making a slight pause. Well, it did just that – it went to 1470 on the 29th of May and paused – mainly because the market closed. The next couple of days, it just sailed upwards, seemingly not wanting to look…
Technically Speaking – another update
A quick follow up to my last post. Seems like the weakness I expected never materialised and the market held up quite well at the 1370 Fibonacci line and has completely flew above two resistance areas (marked red and green respectively). What could be driving the rally? I don’t really know, as far as I…
Technically Speaking
I really try to not do this because I’d prefer to not write about the stock market on my website. But since I’m not really keen on documenting my personal life at this moment, I reckon, this will have to do, plus, people always seem to like talking about the market anyway. In November 2019,…
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