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A small company hired a part-time masseuse in 1999. The job made her a multimillionaire just 5 years later. This is a true story (see NYT article). That company was Google. And that masseuse was Bonnie Brown. She exercised all her Google stock options in 2004, getting millions of (US) dollars in return. I just [...]
It’s hard for people to compare income and net worth with each other. The easy (and sometimes superficial) way is to compare the stuff they wear, the cars they drive, and the type of housing they stay in. We know that driving a BMW and staying in a condo both exudes a certain snob factor. [...]
Are you a university graduate who’s proud to be one of the top 20% of your cohort? Or were you in the top 10% of the PSLE cohort offered to take Higher Mother Tongue Language*? Or maybe you were invited to join the Gifted Education Programme, which means you’re in the top 1%? Gasp. But [...]
Read the full article at Income BenchmarksExactly 5 months ago, I suggested that a mentor is the way to riches and that luck may play a part. Now we have hard data that luck really plays a part (at least according to a report by trusted names like Capgemini and Merrill Lynch). A high net worth individual is defined as having [...]
Read the full article at How to be rich (part 2)Following its World Wealth Report 2007 released in June (see my post Lots of Millionaires), Capgemini and Merrill Lynch have recently released more details on the typical millionaire in Singapore. In their Asia Pacific Wealth Report 2007, they repeated the old information: Singapore has 67,000 High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) Singapore has the fastest growing [...]
Read the full article at Typical MillionaireForbes has released the list of richest people in Singapore. (The title of this post is not exactly right – a couple of them are women.) Can we learn a thing or two about getting rich from this list? Maybe. First, more than a handful of these 40 people are into property and banking (i.e. [...]
Read the full article at Richest Men in SingaporeThe number of tax payers with an annual income of more than a million dollars have increased to 2,121, screamed the headlines in the major newspapers recently. Yes, these people made a million bucks in just one year. Most of us take a lifetime, or longer. Out of these 2,121 high earners, “only” 31 were [...]
Read the full article at More millionaires in SingaporeYour net worth is a measure of how wealthy you are. A person may be cash rich, while another may be cash poor. But because the cash poor person owns a property, both of them could have equal net worth. And do you know there’s a rule of thumb for telling whether your net worth [...]
Read the full article at Calculate Net Worth and Benchmark ItA wealth report released by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini puts Singapore as home to the world’s fastest-growing population of millionaires. Here’s a quick summary of what I found out from the report: Singapore saw the highest growth (21.2%) in High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs), followed by India (20.5%), Indonesia (16.0%), Russia (15.5%), UAE (15.4%), South [...]
Read the full article at Lots of millionaires in SingaporeOne year after the Medisave Contribution Ceiling (MCC) was adjusted to $33,000, CPF has announced that MCC will be adjusted upwards again, this time to $33,500 effective 1 July 2007. If your Medisave account balance already stands at $33k, which is the previous cap, you’ll need to “top up” $500. This can be accomplished in [...]
Read the full article at Medisave Contribution Ceiling now $33,500
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