In a commentary piece, Dr Benedict Koh, a professor of finance and the director of the Centre for Silver Security at SMU, shared his views on the importance of doing early financial planning and understanding the different investment strategies. The article is drawn from Personal Investments by Benedict Koh and Fong Wai Mun.
Education or experience - which matters more in fund management? In a talk at Singapore Management University's Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics recently, entitled 'Education or Experience: Managing Funds Successfully', Simon Davies, executive chairman of Threadneedle Investments, who has 30 years of experience in the industry, said the scale tips slightly more towards experience.
Despite a 49.95-point drop yesterday, the Straits Times Index ended 6.8% higher than closing on Sept 30. Prof M. Hashem Pesaran, a specialist in economics and the financial markets at Cambridge University offered his comments on market volatility on the sidelines of a lecture organised by SMU.
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