When stock markets rallied dramatically last year, soon after the financial crisis, it was mainly the bold and the brave who leapt right in. Many others were wary. Was this a false dawn, only to be followed by more market mayhem? They were reasonable fears, given the prognostications of so-called experts. But now that the [...]

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For a graduate couple in Singapore earning median salaries, the goal of becoming millionaires is not too distant, at least on paper. That is, if they save a third of their income from age 25, and invest prudently to earn a modest return of three per cent a year. This does not include non-liquid assets [...]

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SINGAPOREANS generally have not planned well for their retirement, according to a survey by global bank HSBC. The majority of Singaporeans polled in the survey – aged between 30 and 70 – said that they saved only $100 to $200 a month for their retirement. This works out to a total of less than $100,000 [...]

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Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Credit controller Linda Reay was sorting the daily pile of bills back in 2005 at the bed- manufacturing factory where she worked near Carlisle, an industrial city in northwestern England. Then she took a phone call that would destroy her retirement dreams. The smooth-talking caller identified himself as a London stockbroker named [...]

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