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Why Should You Stay Rooted In Your Investment?

Over the years, investing has been compared to riding the waves or being on a roller coaster ride. However, at Providend, we believe that investing is more like gardening. As long as we stay [...]

Financial Planning Is Also About The Now

When people do financial planning, they often scrimp and save for the future that might never come. That is why at Providend, we adopt the purpose-driven financial planning approach – To [...]

Here’s Why We Advocate Term Life Plan

Since Providend started back in 2001, we have always adhered strictly to two guiding principles that differentiated us – One is to go on a fee-only basis to remove all conflict of interest and [...]

What Gives You Contentment In Life?

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” —Socrates In our consumeristic-culture where discontent is promoted and material gratification is encouraged, learning to be content [...]

Want To Avoid Outliving Your Retirement Nest Egg? Here’s How.

There are two distinctive phases for retirement planning- Accumulation and Withdrawal. However, many of us tend to only focus on the accumulation bit pre-retirement and often neglect the [...]

Are You Addicted To Active Investment?

Active investing can stimulate a rush of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with excitement and, potentially, with addiction. Akin to gambling, active investing gives investors a thrill. The [...]

Are You Team Y.O.L.O or Team F.I.R.E?

Instead of living for the weekends, or counting down the years until retirement, you need a reason to get out of bed every day. And that reason needs to stem beyond money. After all, what are you [...]

What Goes Through Your Mind Right Before You Die?

Near-death experiences can not only change our perspective on death but also empower us to live more meaningful, fulfilled lives. Watch this video as Christopher Tan, CEO of Providend, shares a [...]

Don’t Make Long-Term Decisions Based on Short-Term Information

Do you know of any magic indicator that can always successfully point out the next market crash? If not, does that mean that all these economic indicators are useless? Well, we don’t think [...]

The Importance Of Building Wealth With A Purpose

Do you judge people by how much money they make? Money holds a lot of power both in our minds and in the real world. It can mean the difference between getting by or thriving, and it can also [...]

What Is The Key Driver Of Long Term Stock Market Returns

The market has fallen for the first time in 2019! But fret not. This video was recorded only yesterday and by today, the market has gone up again- further proving the point that it is almost [...]

Retiring in an Uncertain World

In a world with so much geopolitical issues and uncertainty, retirement seems to be a scary subject to think about. Retirement planning during withdrawal phase is more complex because retirees [...]

Keys To Successful Investing

All investors want to have successful investment experience. This is why many try to time the market in order to get the most out of their investment. However, this takes a lot of knowledge, time [...]

Do Low-Cost Investments Give Investors Higher Returns?

Many investors are too fixated on picking the right stocks at the right time. Instead, they should be fixated on their total return after all fees. Watch this video as Vincent Tey, Head of [...]

Investing Is Not Just About Returns

Many textbooks have defined investing as the act of committing money or capital to an endeavour with the expectation of obtaining an additional income or profit. Indeed, so much emphasis has been [...]

What You Need to Know About Retirement Planning

As you journey through life, the phases of your retirement planning process should progress with you. However, many retirement planning instruments available are meant for the earlier stages. [...]

The Purpose of CPF

When the Central Provident Fund (CPF) was introduced in 1955, it only had one intention and that is to help Singaporeans to save for retirement. Since its establishment, the fundamental of it has [...]

Insurance For Newborns

To all soon-to-be-parents, having a new addition to your family can be a wonderful yet nervous event. After nine months of preparation and anticipation, you are finally able to welcome your [...]

What Makes A Good Financial Adviser

Choosing the right financial adviser is crucial to the success of any financial plan. While there are many financial advisers out there, always look for someone who puts your interests first. [...]

What You Should Do During A Market Correction

As a financial advisory firm who has weathered several crises and most notably the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), we have learnt that while we cannot predict how high the markets will go or [...]

Why Evidence Based Investing Matters To You

We typically depend on research and data to do many things in the modern world, from medicine to engineering. Why should it be any different for investing? Using funds that are backed by research [...]

Kids On Retirement (Part II)

Kids on retirement Part II is ready! If only retirement could be as simple and carefree as they describe it to be. Watch this video to hear what the children of Providend have to say! If you have [...]

Kids On Retirement (Part I)

As a financial advisory firm which specialises in retirement planning, we decided to interview our children on retirement and take this as a chance to educate them because it is always good to [...]

Lump Sum vs Dollar Cost Averaging Strategy

Investing is always challenging because there is no perfect strategy. Watch this video to find out how Dollar Cost Averaging and Lump Sum Strategy will give different results depending on the [...]