in print this week

SINGAPORE (Dec 3): Best World International, which sells a little-known brand of skincare through a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, saw its share price rocket from just $1.21 on Aug 21 to $2.27 on Nov 22. That’s because its business model is very a

SINGAPORE (Dec 3): In 2015, the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) helped commodities trader Noble Group organise two shareholder meetings: one was a pre-annual general meeting session; the other was for the purposes of “shareholder communicat

SINGAPORE (Dec 3): Singapore authorities have summoned EY (Singapore), the auditor of Noble Group’s subsidiary, Noble Resources International, to assist in a joint investigation that was announced on Nov 20. NRI is under investigation for potential non-

SINGAPORE (Dec 3): In a sweeping transformation to prepare for a future of electric and self-driving cars, General Motors, the world’s top automaker, last week moved to shut down five North American plants, laying off 14,000 people, by the end of next y

SINGAPORE (Nov 30): Singapore authorities have summoned EY (Singapore), the auditor of Noble Group’s subsidiary, Noble Resources International, to assist in a joint investigation that was announced on Nov 20. NRI is under investigation for potential non

SINGAPORE (Nov 2): Singapore does not have a minimum wage policy for fear of causing businesses to go bust and raising unemployment rates. But companies should be able to afford competitive wages anyway.

SINGAPORE (Oct 29): As a financial adviser representative, a common complaint I hear from clients on regular investment plans is that dollar cost averaging is a little simplistic. Sure, investing the same dollar amount every period helps increase returns

SINGAPORE (Oct 29): The escalating trade feud between the US and China is increasingly viewed as the opening campaign of a new cold war. But this clash of titans, should it continue to escalate, will cost both parties dearly, to the point that even the wi

SINGAPORE (Oct 29): In his Facebook post about British company Dyson’s decision to set up an electric car manufacturing facility in Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote that when he met inventor James Dyson last month, James told him that it

SINGAPORE (Oct 12): Moving deeper into the digital age, companies that produce experiences or provide services such as robo-advisory and mobile payments — the so-called disruptors — are part of everyday life. But what are these companies and how shoul