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Anonymous

24 Jul 2020

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How do I invest my income? Open to all suggestions. 25 y/o male, graduated from NUS last year, no dependents. Any advice?

I currently make around $10k/month on average from work income and spend less than 10% of it every month. I'm at a loss on where to invest the remainder of my funds. I'm not keen on purchasing actively managed financial products due to the management fees involved. Considering DCAing my funds into an S&P ETF but am unsure on the best way to do so (which brokerage, which products are tax friendly for Singaporeans). Open to ideas apart from this. Thanks so much!

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If you're keen on sp500, I would recommend a ireland domiciled fund on LSE that tracks it so the dividend withholding tax is lowered from 30-15%.

VUSD is my preferred one but there's VUSA (GBP denominated) and CSPX which reinvests your dividends automatically

in this case, I think IBKR is the best. Low commissions and the monthly 10$ maintenance can be offset with your trade commissions And since you are planning to do DCA, this Should work to your monthly advantage. They have pretty good exchange rates too so you don't have to fiddle around with 3rd parties like transferwise.

Saxo is really expensive because it has relatively a lot higher commissions, with a min. of 8 GBP to trade on LSE. Do 2 small trades a month (which is usually the case with monthly or even quarterly DCA) and it's way beyond the $10 you pay IBKR so for that reason alone, I decided to just move everything to IBKR​​​

Invest early, regularly, cheaply, passively, ultra long term, decidedly

avoid finance and insurance professionals and unit trusts

it could well be, also if that seems strange advice, that the only investment vehicle you'd need is a single one, f.ex. a large and cheap MSCI World or MSCI ACWI ETF (to not loose too much time & performance)

my own recipe (only for myself), here:

https://seedly.sg/questions/what-is-your-genera...

good luck!🍀

You may consider roboadvisor such as Syfe and KristalAI? I think KristalAI allows DCA of ETF funds w...

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