
Invest
The MoneySmart Guide to Retirement Part 3: Growing Your Wealth
Money means different things to different people. For some, it’s a new handbag, a bespoke cocktails and ski holidays in Hokkaido.
Call us lazy, but t...
20 September 2021

Invest
What is DeFi? A Singaporean’s Guide to Decentralized Finance
One of the crypto buzzwords of 2021 is “DeFi”. Sounds like an underground resistance movement, but it’s actually short for decentralized finance, i.e....
15 September 2021

Property
DBS Home Equity Income Loan Review: CPF Scheme for Private Property Owners
Unless you’re willing to live with your parents forever or have had a look at rental prices and not had a heart attack, you’re going to have to fork o...
14 September 2021

Health Insurance
The MoneySmart Guide to Retirement Part 2: Insurance Protection
So, you made it through the Singapore education system and now have a job that pays you an okay salary. You’re even saving and investing for financial...
13 September 2021

Property
9 Cheapest Condos in Singapore: Studio Apartments Under $600K
“Cheap” is a relative term. To people from anywhere else in the world, nothing in Singapore is really cheap except the bus, MRT and hawker food.
But i...
8 September 2021

Property
The MoneySmart Guide to Retirement Part 1: Home Security
Your home is your castle, your refuge, your love nest, your (wo)man cave, and also what you have spent or will spend a large chunk of your life paying...
6 September 2021

Invest
Guide to CKA & CAR for Specified Investment Products (SIP) in Singapore
If you’ve already tried investing in Singapore, you might have come across something called a CKA (Customer Knowledge Assessment) or CAR (Customer Rev...
27 August 2021

Invest
Xfers Account Singapore: Step-by-Step Guide to How Xfers Works
The days when Bitcoin was a goldmine have dissipated together with our mask-free pasts, but you might still be thinking of trying your hand at this wh...
26 August 2021

Home Loans
Voluntary CPF Housing Refund: What Is It, and Should You Do It Too?
Emptying your CPF Ordinary Account (OA) to pay for property and service your mortgage is one way you can get some utility out of your CPF savings befo...
25 August 2021

Education
Teaching in Singapore: Is It Better to Be an MOE Teacher or a Private Tuition Teacher?
On the face of it, MOE teachers seem to have it good. Decent pay AND long holidays? Sign us up!
Yet everyone has that ex-teacher friend who quit to gi...
17 August 2021
