Tong Kooi Ong

(Oct 2): In the past few weeks, there were many catastrophic events, ranging from the wildfires in Canada to the hurricanes in the Caribbean and the US. Close to home, we have the humanitarian crisis in Rakhine state in Myanmar, where hundreds of thousand

(Sept 11): There are plenty of narratives in the matter of active versus passive investing. I, too, have discussed this issue at length here, in the past.

SINGAPORE (Aug 11): Forget the US Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. There is far more to be feared from the imminent reversal of quantitative easing (QE) by both the Fed and the European Central Bank (ECB).

SINGAPORE (July 7): It is amazing the number of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index mutual funds being promoted. Are these “passively managed funds” the holy grail of investments?

SINGAPORE (Oct 5): UPP Holdings has entered into an agreement to acquire shares and notes in Taiga Building Products from Berjaya Corporation and its unit, Berjaya Forest Products, as well as shares in Taiga from an entity linked to UPP director Tong Kooi

(July 28): On 22 June 2015, Xavier Justo, a 48-year-old retired Swiss banker, walked towards the front door of his brand new boutique hotel on Koh Samui, a tropical Thai island. He had spent the past three years building the luxurious white-stone complex