For many people, the COVID-19 outbreak came at a bad time. Worldwide, supply chains are slowing to an excruciating crawl, placing the world economy under unprecedented pressure. Pan-sector retrenchments have only just begun and plunging stock prices gnaw at once-healthy portfolios. For those with life...
The book ‘The Five Love Languages’ by Gary Chapman has graced the shelves of all self-respecting bookstores for decades. While impossible to summarise justly in a few words, the book addresses the means through which we give and receive love, and helps us to make...
Perhaps you’ll understand – protecting our lifestyle means a lot to us. Well-meaning suggestions to live healthier or save more are usually met with paralysing inertia, and whereupon dismissed. But we get it – change is scary! And yet, sometimes, a change in lifestyle is...
Art collecting gets a weird rep. To the layman, the practice is dismissively associated with all manner of elitist hobbies afforded only to the crème de la crème of haute society. While such an assumption would probably have held a century or so ago, art...
Google ‘retirement planning’ and you will be bombarded with what can only be described as a barrage of information of what to expect, how much money you will need and how to start saving for your retirement. Read on and perhaps you’ll notice that a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Retirement. Everyone knows someone with crazy visions of what they’d like to do when work life as we know it expires into memory. Some want to move to the Cameron Highlands to start their own farm, and others intend to buy an island in the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At some point or another, most of us would have wondered what life after retirement will look like. Imagine not having to go to work… How will we occupy all this time? But this life transition shouldn’t frighten you – life does not end after...
Parents worry for their children, even when they are well into adulthood. Indeed, one of the greatest worries as a parent is that our children grow up without achieving financial security. We can provide for them as much as possible, but ultimately, they will need...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Anna V. Haotanto - First published on December 19, 2017 on The New Savvy [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" padding_top="10"][vc_column][vc_column_text]To provide Singaporeans easier access to insurance policies, insurers in Singapore are constantly innovating. Aiming to change the way life...
There are certain days of the year – New Year’s Days, birthdays, etc, during which we are more likely to reflect on our lives. Inevitably, we are struck by the realisation of how fast time flies, and how quickly we are going through the various...