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| 10 September 2009: Finding Your Second Wind |
Retrenchment can be a difficult time but does not mean it's a dead end. Find out how to assess your financial situation for peace of mind, so you can find new opportunities in life to focus o
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| 01 July 2009: Changing The World Of Philanthropy: The Gift Of Giving In Troubled Times |
Gary Harvey discusses the gift of giving even in volatile
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| 01 July 2009: Seeing Through The Hocus Bogus |
How do you see through a scam? Brian Goh explai
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| 01 July 2009: A Will That Reflects Your Wishes |
Chintana White emphasises the importance of making a will for parents with young children, in order to protect their
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| 30 June 2009: Ask The Adviser: Surviving A Layoff - Prime Magazine |
Advice on how to manage your finances during a career trans
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| 25 May 2009: Life After Retrenchment |
Tips from Brett Waller on how to survive and triumph over redundan
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| 19 May 2009: Teaching Workers To Be Money Savvy - Straits Times Recruit |
Offering financial advice as an employee benefit is important in good times a
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| 18 May 2009: Ask The Adviser: Cover Your Bases |
Find out from Stephenie Low how much insurance a working mother might
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| 15 April 2009: Property Investing - Doing The Math - Business Times |
Roy Varghese examines two real-life scenarios to show investors the importance of timing in calculating risks and re
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| 15 April 2009: Never React To Market Chatter - The Business Times |
There has been no dearth of sensational headlines relating to the financial world in the media over the past few weeks. Oil prices are fast approaching US$100 per barrel. Financial institutions are taking accounting charges for sub-prime write-downs. CEOs have stepped down. The US Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates to ease credit in a slowing economy. Unemployment rates are down and inflation is an on-going worry. Minerals and metals, especially gold, are trading at new highs. The US dollar is sliding fast. Global stock markets have been very vo
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| 15 April 2009: Resilience Amidst Doom And Gloom - Business Times |
Roy Varghese outlines three important principles for the successful investor to stay resilient amidst doom and gloom.
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| 25 March 2009: Time To Start A Small Business? |
Roy A Varghese looks at why starting a new business may be a strategic outcome from the recession of 2009
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| 05 March 2009: If Not Careful, Expats Could End Up Worse Off - Human Resources Online |
ipac speaks to Human Resources about how expats can better manage their resources during their overseas sta
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| 17 February 2009: EQ And IQ, Fear And Greed; Who Wins And Who Really Loses? |
| For capitalism to thrive, one of the requisites, I would say, is the fine balance between greed and fear. Greed, properly managed and controlled provides gainful employment creating profits that enable further growth. But equally important is fear as it can make people think and stops many businesses from bad decisions. However, looking at recent events and the need for huge market bailouts, I would say that this balance has gone. It appears that rationale and logic have now been overwhelmed by fea
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| 17 February 2009: Expat Files Revisited: IQ + EQ = IIQ |
The average expat, who has experienced working overseas, may recall living with a niggling sense of apprehension that events beyond our control could change our circumstances dramatically and even as swiftly as overnight. This may not be the case during boom time, but how many expats anticipate a worst-case sce
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| 05 February 2009: Penny-pinching Tips For The Unemployed - Human Resources Online |
Human Resources Online interviews ipac about tips for employees facing retrenchment and advice for how best to deal with financial challeng
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| 21 January 2009: Smart Money For Smart Women: What's Your Five Year Plan? |
As confident, smart, engaging women, we believe we have what it takes to be in control of our lives and the journey we embark on. However, to be totally in control of one's life all the time can be overwhelming and majorly taxing so much so that sometimes we overlook the important aspects of our need; perhaps not the issues for tomorrow or next year but what our lives will be like in five or ten or twenty years down th
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| 18 January 2009: 6 Ways To Survive The Downturn |
Don't get beaten by a depressed economy, get frugal instead. &nb
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| 18 January 2009: Ask The Adviser: A Plan For All Seasons |
We addresse a reader's question about delaying retirement during an economic downtu
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