6 Dates That HDB BTO Flat Buyers Need To Know That Are On Their Agreement For Lease
When buying a home, you need to keep track of dates very closely. For example, for those who want to apply for a BTO flat during the October 2024 BTO sales launch, you should note that it is open between 16 October to 23 October, 11.59 p.m. Even before applying for a flat at the […]
10 Facts You May Not Know About MediShield Life
MediShield Life is a health insurance scheme that provides all Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents with universal and lifelong basic protection against large healthcare bills. This ensures that healthcare remains affordable for Singaporeans. For those of us who require healthcare, both the affordability as well as the quality of healthcare we receive are important. Here […]
Using Your Credit Card On Foreign Currency Spends: Should You Pay in Singapore Dollars or Foreign Currencies?
This article was written in collaboration with MariBank. All views expressed in this article are the independent opinion of DollarsAndSense.sg based on our research. DollarsAndSense.sg is not liable for any financial losses that may arise from any transactions and readers are encouraged to do their own due diligence. You can view our full editorial policy […]
T-bill? DBS, OCBC and UOB crashed? When to buy?
I produced a YouTube video yesterday after someone alerted me to buy some bank stocks.I thought the stock market had crashed.Did not look at stocks for 2 weeks prior to the alert with all that has been going on in my life.Anyway, if you have not seen the video, here it is: (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle […]
Bad things happen.

One thing I have blogged about on and off over the years is how things could go wrong.Bad things happen.Very often, they happen without warning.In my last YouTube video, I said that I was making trips to the hospital.The month of July has turned out to be much busier than I had planned.I have been […]
Expenses. T-bill. SSB. DBS, UOB and OCBC.
It has been more than a week since my last blog post.Things have settled into a new normal for me.In this new normal, my expenses have increased by 3x or 4x.UOB should be very pleased with me as I exceed the $500 minimum spending required on the ONE Card by a large amount to get […]
Singtel share price hit 4-year high

Lifetime Membership High, high into the sky! On 30 August 2024, Singtel share price smashed to a 4-year high to cross the pivotal $3.10 mark. The last time that Singtel share price was trading at this level was in February 2020 – the period right before the stock market plunged into chaos due to the […]
AEM share price in new chapter with Temasek

Lifetime Membership The last time I covered AEM Holdings was in May 2024 when AEM share price was trading at around the $1.90 bandwidth. However, that article was written before the train-wreck inflicted by the appalling 1HFY2024 financial results. The horror show caused another bout of meltdown of AEM share price as the counter tumbled […]
Sembcorp Industries share price lost steam

Lifetime Membership After conquering SGX in 2023, Sembcorp Industries share price looked out of sorts in 2024. Year-to-date, the counter has declined about 3.4%. Whilst the decline is not significant enough to warrant a concern, it appears that Sembcorp Industries share price has lost its all-conquering form of 2023 as the counter peaked at $5.80 […]
3Q 2024 passive income: Banks to the rescue!

Another quarter has gone by and it is time for another update.For a change, I will reveal the numbers first.3Q 2024 passive income:$85.223.17This is a slight reduction, year on year, as 3Q 2023 passive income was:$85,307.78Almost negligible difference but it is still a dip.The reason for this is the much lower contribution from Sabana REIT which […]