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Speaker 2: in a few words, could you give us your thoughts

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Speaker 2: on the following

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Speaker 2: retiring in Singapore expensive but worth it by investing, definitely

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Speaker 2: worth it. But you have to learn how to do

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Speaker 2: it first. Financial advisors be careful about who is going

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Speaker 2: to be advising you and trust. But verify versus unit trusts. Oh,

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Speaker 2: for sure any day, ideal retirement amount depends on your lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: In my case, excessive amounts of money. We all wish that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on money talks. I'm Sarah Khaldi.

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Speaker 2: Many of you have said you want to invest but

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Speaker 2: don't know how you've given us positive feedback on our

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Speaker 2: first episode on the importance of investing. But we've also

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Speaker 2: got questions about how to go about it. The golden

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Speaker 2: rule is don't do anything you don't understand. So we've

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Speaker 2: brought back David, co co founder of the smart investor.

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Speaker 2: To help you understand how you should put your money

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Speaker 2: to work

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Speaker 2: for those of you guys who haven't heard our last

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Speaker 2: chat with David, it is the first episode of this podcast.

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Speaker 2: Go check it out. It talks about why we need

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Speaker 2: to invest. But David, could you give us a brief

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Speaker 2: recap of why we have to start thinking and planning

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Speaker 2: for our retirement and not leave it to chance? Well,

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Speaker 2: I think the sooner you invest, the sooner you start

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Speaker 2: thinking about what is going to happen on that day

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Speaker 2: when you are no longer working

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Speaker 2: It is vital. And for some people, that period of

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Speaker 2: time could be 30 or 40 years and for other

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Speaker 2: it really means that you need to take greater risks

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Speaker 2: amount of risk. So the simple rule is, you need

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Speaker 2: to know where you are today, how much money you

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Speaker 2: And what you think you will need on that day

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Speaker 2: And what you don't want to do is to see

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Speaker 2: of course as with most things Sarah, if you are

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Speaker 2: course you're not going to be pressured because you are

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Speaker 2: to do this podcast with you. I left home early

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Speaker 2: is a nice situation to be in. What you don't

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Speaker 2: please Because I have an interview at 10 30 he goes,

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Speaker 2: well it's already 10 20 now. How much faster do

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Speaker 2: If this is all too overwhelming. David for some of

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Speaker 2: our listeners, should they get an advisor to help them

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Speaker 2: Is there any value in getting an advisor when technically

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Speaker 2: thing at the moment that came about in the year

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Speaker 2: for free at the different kinds of experts, advice on

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Speaker 2: urge people trust but verify in other words, there's no

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Speaker 2: There is no ulterior motive that they're not trying to

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Speaker 2: So it is a learning process investing is simple. That

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Speaker 2: picking good companies. And here in Singapore we have this wonderful.

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Speaker 2: We mustn't listen to people who tell us, oh, go

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Speaker 2: But what really means is that people have been putting

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Speaker 2: I think there is a case and I think there

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Speaker 2: If you want to start investing yourself, Exchange traded funds

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Speaker 2: And the beauty of opening the brokerage account is you

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Speaker 2: And it is a bit like when you're riding a bicycle,

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Speaker 2: and how you go about analyzing the company. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much David for giving us insights into how to

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