GYC Insights

Articles on real-life financial issues written to educate and enlighten.

Bruce Tan Bruce Tan

Dividends Are Like Desserts

Dividends doesn’t magically appear out of nowhere, it represents a portion of the company’s value being paid out to shareholders. A slice of cake once eaten, means less of the cake remains

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Carl Chay Carl Chay

How Much Cash Do I Need?

An important determinant is what your goals are and what is the priority and importance of achieving them. A robust investment plan can place the life you want within your reach.

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Bruce Tan Bruce Tan

The Active Component in Passive Investing

Two well known Growth indices, the S&P 500 Growth index and the Russell 1000 Growth index rose by +42.68%. and +30.03% respectively during the 2023 recovery. Why the big difference in performance?

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Carl Chay Carl Chay

Buy Now or Wait?

Waiting to enter the market will result in opportunity costs, which adds up to a lot. But should you enter all at once, or do so in installments?

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Carl Chay Carl Chay

The End Of The Rally?

Following each all-time high, less than 1 out of 10 times has the market ended negative 1 year out. When you extend the time horizon to 5 years or more, has not ended negative, that number drops to 0.

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Carl Chay Carl Chay

The Best Inflation Hedge

From transport prices to a bowl of fishball noodles, recent inflation spikes have made it an important element to consider for financial planning.

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Bruce Tan Bruce Tan

Why Are Market Prices Volatile?

Every single day, $675.8 billion is traded in the market. In the short term, prices vary for a wide host of reasons, but it is the fundamentals that set the stock prices in the long-run.

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Bruce Tan Bruce Tan

Global Stocks: A Long Run Review

Bear markets can have negative per annum returns while having positive average annualised rolling returns. The individual investor experience is better expressed through the latter.

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Carl Chay Carl Chay

The High Cost of Complexity

Financial institutions being accused of mis-selling products for profit is a tale as old as time, and as long as their revenue models do not change, then it is unlikely to be the last as well.

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Bruce Tan Bruce Tan

How Losing Gets You Ahead

If you knew that you will be going through some of the worst market declines in history within the next 10 years, would you go ahead to invest? Or would you wait out the crisis and invest later?

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An Opportunity

The recent pullback came back as expected, with many economics calling for it to be just the beginning of a larger correction. But when considering several points of data, market signals, and financial evidence, we believe this presents an opportunity get into the market and supercharge those long-term returns.

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Bruce Tan Bruce Tan

It Is Possible To Beat The S&P 500

The S&P 500 is known as a broad base allocation to U.S. stocks. Accessing these companies through an index fund or ETF, you’d think that you’d be investing into the five hundred largest companies in the U.S. And you’d be wrong.

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