Practical Finance Education
Make Better Finance Decisions. Become A Better Investor.
Which way do you learn best?
#1 - Daily discussion via an Active Facebook Group
BIGS World is where personal finance and investing discussions take place daily.Some of the interesting topics thus far include:Which bank account should I should to maximise my savings?Is it really better for a family to have dual income...and some of the traps to be aware ofHow should you best manage your expenses...if you are working to reach financial independence early?and many more happening dailyIt's free to join.Our group members are very friendly and generous with their sharing and discussions - anyone can ask questions, and anyone can share their views.Our admins are highly vigilant about spams. If you are caught spamming, you'll be booted immediately.And! We don't discriminate against lurkers, we know you can be busy.
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#2 - Live Workshops / Events
These usually involve speakers who are practitioners themselves. And best of all, we (try our best to) discourage any sales.Look out for the next workshop here: Upcoming BIGScribe WorkshopThus far, we have organised about 6 workshops.Each workshop focuses to breakdown specific financial questions that you might be facing, such as;
REITs Investing: What Works Today
We invited a professional fund manager and a profitable practitioner to share about REITs investing, and how they approach it. The debate was interesting with both sides sharing tidbits about a wide range of tools to maximise their REITs portfolio.
Money and Love: How Should Couples Manage Their Money
"Happy Wife, Happy Life"? 3 finance bloggers at different stages of marriage (from newly wed to a happy father of 2) share how their household accounts are managed. This was a popular session for couples.
Optimising your CPF for Retirement
How should you manage your CPF account, to ensure you are ready for retirement?3 speakers (SG Budget Babe, Tree of Prosperity and Createwealth8888) from different phase of life share how they are building their CPF, and how they are allocating their CPF monies to optimise their CPF accounts for retirement.
Stress-Free Investing
Unlike popular belief, profitable investing doesn't have to be stressful. Neither does it need to take up hours daily. Cheerful Egg, Dr Wealth and Tree of Prosperity share their views on how you can still invest to grow your wealth, without having to actively monitor your investments daily.
Building Cash Flow from Stocks
Can you build a regular cashflow from stock investing? Bloggers at Tree of Prosperity, InvestmentMoats and Forever Financial Freedom say you can. They share how it is done.
More coming your way!Look out for the next workshop here: Upcoming BIGScribe Workshop
#3 - Free Finance Guides and ebooks
BIGScribe has allowed financial bloggers like us to get together and compile our various financial experiences into a single resource.With that, we've created a series of finance ebooks focusing on various niches of investing:
Investing Your 1st $20,000Learn how you can maximise your first $20,000 investing as 14 Singapore Finance Bloggers who are also active retail investors share what they would have invested their first $20,000 if they had started with all the knowledge they have today.
Crowdfunding - Demystifying the investing frontier for Retail InvestorsCrowdfunding is an alternative investing tool that has started attracting retail investors since 2014. However, what are you really investing into when you take part in Crowdfunding? And, is Crowdfunding suitable for every retail investors?
Gold and Silver - Uncloaking the Mysteries behind Gold & Silver InvestingWe uncover some of the nuances in precious metal investing and give it to you in this book. You might be shocked to learn the true costs that comes with investing in physical gold and silver.