Author Archives: Gwen

About Gwen

Business Owner, Investor. Financial Guru, Educator. My passion is in business management, financial matters and education. Combining these favourites, I manage this blog to share the importance of money protection and growth. Today, I invest in business, stocks, forex and properties. Collectively, I own two overseas properties, a commercial and an industrial property in Singapore. Update: I've since sold my industrial property for a small profit. Have a question? Email me at gwenkok@moremorecash.com

Challenges as a result from a lack of money

  This video advertisement caught my eye. Office of the Public Guardian Commercial   It’s not the normal range of financial matters that I usually talk about in my blog but considering the kind of impact that this kind of … Continue reading

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About Passive Income and Having Positive Cashflow

  In my previous article, I mentioned income from salary forms my basic source of income for my investments.   This is known as ‘active income’. In other words, I’m exchanging my time for money. So what happens if I … Continue reading

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If you are an employee, this story will serve as a stark reminder

  I meant to post some time beginning of this month but got distracted with work. :p But nothing can take me away for too long from learning and sharing my financial knowledge and managing my own finances. So here … Continue reading

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Effect of starting early and compounding your returns

  Today I was sharing with my brother about investing in stocks for dividend payouts as part of one’s long term wealth accumulation and growth plan.   I also mentioned generally stocks can give a 5% dividend yield. And if … Continue reading

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Are your investments getting you the returns that you want?

  Out of curiosity, today I did a rough calculation how much investment capital one would need to generate a return of $2,000 per month. Depending on the type of investment, returns can range from 2% to 5% or more. … Continue reading

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Redeem your NTUC points before they expire!

  Another year had passed. If you are an existing NTUC member and had accumulated some Linkpoints in the year of 2013, please note that the points will expire after 30 June 2014.   Do remember to redeem your points. … Continue reading

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Waiver of EZ-Reload Top Up Fee

  If you use POSB Everyday credit card as your ezlink card, you can earn 2% cash rebates on your ez-reload transactions. However,  each ez-reload top up comes with a $0.25 transaction fee. From now until 30 June 2014, you … Continue reading

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The Importance of Delayed Gratification towards Building Your Networth

  I read an article today talking about being flat broke despite earning a high salary. And having to struggle making a positive networth.   To quote from the article that I felt sums it all up very nicely – … Continue reading

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Discount at AllDealsAsia.com with your Citibank card

  I bought something from AllDealsAsia.com recently.   For those who do buy from this deal site and have a Citibank credit card, here’s a good news to help you save on your purchases.   If you have a Citibank … Continue reading

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Credit card rebates are exciting

  I came across a nice quote today. “Tax savings are exciting, but the most exciting part of tax savings is using that money to increase your wealth.”   And it reminded me of how using credit cards wisely and … Continue reading

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