Professor (Education) Benedict Koh, who is Director of the Centre for Silver Security under the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, note that those who embark on financial planning only after they retire will have to choose more aggressive instruments with high payout to counter the short time span they have. But he cautioned that higher payouts also mean higher risks.
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said that he had worked closely with the local universities when he was at MAS such as with SMU's Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics.
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said that he had worked closely with the local universities when he was at MAS such as with SMU's Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics.
Distinguished Term Professor of Economics Peter C.B. Phillips and Professor Yu Jun, Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, co-wrote a commentary on what constitutes a sound system to warn against property bubbles.
In a discussion on who is poised to take over as chief of the IMF, Prof Jun Yu points out that this crisis provides an interesting opportunity for the debate that it may be a good idea to open the door to new thinking.
FT Tilt
A writer penned her thoughts after attending the Sim Kee Boon Institute Conference on Financial Economics that there is no such thing as a sure bet in a complex system like the market.
Experts have called for a global central bank and financial authority to monitor and regulate markets to help avoid a recurrence of the 2008 worldwide crisis. Speaking at a conference organised by the Singapore Management University yesterday, central bankers and academics spoke of the difficulties of tracking money globally.
Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of MAS, said that the important lesson from the financial crisis is that we need better regulation and better functioning markets rather than greater regulatory controls when he was speaking at the inaugural conference organised by the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics.
Mr Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, was the guest-of- honour at the opening of the inaugural Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Annual Conference on Financial Economics at SMU yesterday.
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