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Explosive documents and phone tapes reveal an investor’s worst nightmare about stockbrokers. Stuart Washington reports.
PETER McGUIRE is, by all appearances, the super-successful stockbroker fronting CWA Global Markets, with a fondness for $200,000-plus Mercedes cars.
At the height of the boom his business was selling risky financial products like hot cakes, allowing its top broker to [...]

Forget a house – buy an island
Owning an island is likely to be something that few people would ever seriously consider. While it is exciting to imagine what living on an island would be like – palm trees, sunsets, gentle breezes – most people could never afford to own a piece of paradise. Or could [...]

S’pore’s richest keep getting richer
 
The latest list of Forbes wealthiest individuals and families in Singapore indicated that the top 40 richest Singaporeans are now worth US$45.7 billion (S$62 billion), up 17 percent from US$39 billion in 2009. The list is made up of popular entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists.
 
In the number one spot again this [...]

Singaporeans opt for pricey homes, says report

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Foreigners no longer accounted for most buyers who purchased homes at more than $5 million, according to a recent study conducted by Savills Research and Consultancy, revealing that Singaporeans are now buying up pricey homes.
The report showed a stunning turnaround in a trend which has [...]

Overseas S’poreans should look at home growth post—crisis & return
CHICAGO: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes that Singaporeans based overseas will realise the country’s developments and economic growth particularly after the financial crisis and return home soon.
He was speaking to some 150 Singaporeans who are studying and working in Chicago. Mr Lee was wrapping up [...]

Government releases four residential sites in one go
 
The government has released four more residential sites for sale, which can accommodate more than 1,200 private home units.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said yesterday that the potential land supply from the government’s land sales programme, as well as the supply from projects in the pipeline will be [...]

Mass market private homes established a positive start to the recovery of the property market last year, which was spurred by stable demand and priced-to-sell projects in the early part of the year.
Home buyers, dominated by HDB upgraders, were responsible for the overcrowding in showflats during that period. The increasing numbers of units appearing on [...]

Increased buying spurred sales of developers in July 2009 to an amazing 2,772 units. The figure is more than three times the monthly average sales of 700 to 900 units for the last 10 years.
If the monthly average of more than 1,400 units sold did not make policymakers sit up, the robust sales certainly caught [...]

In some recent editorial I have referred to methodology and making sure whatever system you use is well founded and has been successfully tested. I would like to elaborate a little more on this.
Firstly let’s look at methodology. Basically these fall into four categories. The first is Fundamental and even though I don’t personally use [...]

WOULD YOU BE interested to invest in a company which has never suffered a loss in its twenty two years of operation, and in fact, has registered a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20% for its revenue from 2002 to 2008?
Techcomp Holdings (www.techcomp.com.hk) is one such company. It was listed on SGX Main Board [...]