CPF

“Money in your CPF account is your money”?

TR Emeritus 26 May 2014 http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/05/26/leong-money-in-your-cpf-account-is-your-money/ We refer to the article “‘Money in CPF account is your money’: Tan Chuan-Jin” (Straits Times, May 26). “Money…


Minimum sums increased 184%?

We refer to the article “Singapore Parliament reopens: CPF schemes for retirement to be improved, says President Tony Tan” (Straits Times,  May 17). CPF schemes to…





80% OF SINGAPOREANS ARE POORER THAN A CLEANER IN NORWAY

The Real Singapore 30 April, 2014 http://therealsingapore.com/content/80-singaporeans-are-poorer-cleaner-norway By Leong Sze Hian, Han Hui Hui and Roy Ngerng We went to Oslo, Norway earlier this month. Norway has…


CPF returns are the lowest in the world?

Countries’ pension funds with the lowest historical returns? According to the study “Pension fund performance” (Antolin, P. 2008, OECD working papers) – the Czech Republic…