Savvy Maverick, Author at Smart Retirement Today

Why BYOB Should Be Your Guiding Motto In Life

Life is a party, BYOB! Just kidding. By BYOB I don’t mean…Bring Your Own Booze instead what I mean is ‘Be Your Own Boss’. This is singularly the best and most…

November 5, 2022 2

Experiences

Should You Save The Best For Last?

They say you can guess someone’s character by watching how they eat. There are those who save the best for last, some who will try a bit of everything and…

October 25, 2022 2

Finances

Dealing With A Triple Whammy – Rising Interest, Inflation And Bear Market

A triple whammy of rising interest rate, surging inflation and bear market are upon us. And to make matter worse, recession and nuclear war threat are stoking the fire of…

October 12, 2022

Finances

When Is The Right Time To Sell An Investment Property?

Buying an investment property is a deliberate decision undertaken after much consideration and research. Totally appropriate and sensible given the quantum of purchase that can run into millions of dollars…

September 28, 2022

Experiences

Are You Wasting Your Greatest Gift?

This summer has been superlative in many ways – travel, family, friends, sailing, BBQs, the weather. Despite being the 6th driest in Dutch history, it has produced bountiful harvests of…

September 11, 2022

Experiences

Choose Early Retirement And Give Up These?

The re-opening of economies after 2 years of pandemic-enforced shutdown has seen a sudden resumption of activities, causing acute personnel shortage across industries. Air-travel, transport, horeca (hotel, restaurants, catering), retail,…

August 31, 2022

Finances

Why Net Worth Is Not A Good Indicator Of True Wealth

A recent wealth report cited by several financial publications caught my eyes and tickled my mind. The HSBC report projects that by the year 2030, Singapore will have the highest…

August 25, 2022

Finances

A Cause For Renewed Excitement In Cryptocurrency

If you have made international funds transfer before, it is likely you have used the services of SWIFT (Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication). It is a messaging network that…

August 17, 2022

Experiences

Bet You Didn’t Know Hearing Loss Leads To This!

We live in a society surrounded by sounds and noises pretty much 24*7. Take a stroll through the streets and you will see people walking around with headphones and earphones,…

August 8, 2022 2

Experiences

Ready For Digital Innovation And The Metaverse?

So many aspects of our lives have changed the past 2 years that I now think of life as pre-Covid and since Covid. Though the outbreak is somewhat under control,…

July 28, 2022