To get ready for your retirement, or your financial independence, you will need a recurring stream of cash flow. We often have clients seeking our help to evaluate certain financial products which can provide them with a regular income component. They would like to know how these products fare against their current portfolio of financial assets…
Are your investments liquid or illiquid? When a holding is liquid, it simply means you can sell it anytime the market in which it trades is open for business, without losing your proverbial shirt in the exchange. If it’s illiquid, you cannot sell it, at least not for anything near what it’s worth. Degrees Of…
We are A Family Serving Families. Learn about our purpose and you can trust our financial advisers to provide honest, independent and competent advice to our clients. Experience The Providend Difference today. We do not charge a fee at the first consultation meeting. If you would like an honest second opinion on your current investment…
Despite going against the grain of the industry, we will continue to advocate our promise of honesty. Honour (Singapore) has chosen to honour Providend as an organisation which embraces such values. Through this video that Honour has created, hear our story and how far we have come. Providend was founded and established as the first…
It has been eleven years since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. This event has changed the economy of the world, the mindset of investors and the investment philosophy of Providend today. Watch this video as Christopher Tan, CEO of Providend, shares the lessons we have learnt from the GFC to help our clients achieve…
Pre-order a copy of “Money Wisdom – Simple Truths For Financial Wellness” at https://www.providend.com/money-wisdom-order/ today! Written by Christopher Tan, CEO of Providend, this book is a compilation of broad and penetrating insights over the past twenty years. It includes content such as risk mitigation, insurance planning, retirement planning and personal finance, all of which are…
Many skeptics, especially people who have never invested before, regard investing as another form of gambling. Even though there’s a thin line between the two, they are two vastly different concepts. Do you know if you are truly investing or “gambling”? Watch this video as Christopher Tan, CEO of Providend, shares three factors that you…
The true value of a good financial adviser you can trust is not in the type of life insurance and investment products he sells to you. It is much more than that. If you wish to find yourself a good financial adviser, look for these three unique attributes: Knowledgeable Experienced “Good Bedside Manners” Let me…
It’s 11th September again. It has been exactly 18 years since Providend was first established as a fee-only financial advisory firm. For those who are unfamiliar, back on 11th September 2001, the celebratory yet fateful day when Providend first signed our office lease, it was also the day terrorism changes the world we lived in. Today, we would…
A few days ago, Michael Burry, a fund manager whose massively successful bet against the US subprime housing market was dramatised in the film, “The Big Short”, said that passive investing was a “bubble” that had caused investors to neglect small caps and value stocks.1 This drew an energetic response from financial adviser Joshua Brown of…
