Jul 21, 2021 | About Gold
June hasn’t been a great month for gold – it lost 6.5% over the month. But then again, it hasn’t been a great month for many investors- the KLCI fell by 3.2% and Bitcoin fell by 5.5%¹. I would like to put the sharp gold fall into perspective and to offer an...
Mar 4, 2021 | About Gold, Financial Security
Finally. The vaccine has arrived in Malaysia! Finally. We can all start to imagine our lives one day returning to a semblance of normality. Finally. We can look forward to an end to this exhausting stop-start cycle of MCOs that was imposed to control the number of...
Jan 25, 2021 | About Gold, Financial Security , Investment
2020 was a confusing year for me – on one hand, the pandemic created unprecedented uncertainty for everyone; but on the other hand, by end of the year, stock markets emerged up or unharmed by the pandemic. And now, with the arrival of vaccines, all of us are...
Dec 23, 2020 | About Gold, Financial Security , Investment
I can’t believe that it has only been a year since I went on my pre-Covid-19 Christmas holiday with one of my two sons. The pre-pandemic world seems like a lifetime ago. So much has changed and then again, so many things remain the same. On the one hand, Covid-19 and...
Nov 25, 2020 | About Gold, Investment
For the longest time, I have had a hunch about how the average Malaysian and folks similar to him / her in emerging markets should invest. It was just a hunch based on observations rather than hard analysis backed by data. My hunch was that people in Malaysia who are...