Fundamental Analysis 101: A basic overview of the fundamental analysis of stocks

Source. In this post, I would like to give an overview of the principles and concepts in the fundamental analysis of stocks. What is fundamental analysis? Well, fundamental analysis (FA) is the analysis of the fundamentals of a company. The fundamentals of the company are trying to capture essentially the health of the company, in … Continue reading Fundamental Analysis 101: A basic overview of the fundamental analysis of stocks →

REITs 101: Introduction to real estate investment trusts – Part 2

https://i.etsystatic.com/6111470/r/il/35f144/1417264877/il_fullxfull.1417264877_awhp.jpg The Singapore skyline at night. Source. This is Part 2 from the post "REITs 101: Introduction to real estate investment trusts – Part 1". Be sure to check that out before going further here. In my previous post, I started talking about the real estate investment trusts, or Reits for short, in the following fashion: … Continue reading REITs 101: Introduction to real estate investment trusts – Part 2 →

Medtech 101: An overview of the medical device industry

https://www.flintec.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/medical.jpeg Source. In this post, I will be doing a 101 dissection of the medical device industry. It’s a somewhat not-so-popular industry from the perspective of retail investing, but I have had some prior experience in this space, so it’s a tad easier for me to conduct some levels of analysis on companies in this … Continue reading Medtech 101: An overview of the medical device industry →

REITs 101: Introduction to real estate investment trusts – Part 1

https://i.etsystatic.com/6111470/r/il/35f144/1417264877/il_fullxfull.1417264877_awhp.jpg The Singapore skyline at night. Source. This post is a 101 dissection of real estate investment trusts, REITs or Reits in short. As the full content of this topics is pretty long and I plan to make this 101 comprehensive, I will be publishing this piece in 2 parts, touching on the following: What … Continue reading REITs 101: Introduction to real estate investment trusts – Part 1 →

An uncommon approach in tackling class imbalance

Class imbalance. Source. In supervised learning, one challenged faced by data scientists is classification class imbalance, where in a binary classification problem, instances in one class severely outnumbers instances in the other. This poses a problem as model performances may be misleading: a naive example would be to always predict negative in a 10% positive-90% … Continue reading An uncommon approach in tackling class imbalance →

A guide to dollar cost averaging in Singapore – Part 2

Dollar cost averaging and regular savings plans are good ways for long-term investors to build up their nest egg in Singapore. Image source. This is Part 2 from the post "A guide to dollar cost averaging in Singapore – Part 1". Be sure to check that out first before going further here. In my previous post … Continue reading A guide to dollar cost averaging in Singapore – Part 2 →

Stylized facts in statistical finance

Stylized facts play an important role in the study of statistical finance. Source. In statistical finance (as well as in certain areas in social science), stylized facts are empirical observations summarized in a theory-like form, and are generally representative under broad circumstances. Stylized facts are commonly used in statistical finance to address and summarize phenomenon … Continue reading Stylized facts in statistical finance →

Reviewing means of stashing cash with impending recession in sight

Inversion of US Treasury yield spread. Source. With the US Treasury yield curve inverting for the first time since 2007, we have our first reliable signal from the market that a recession is around the corner, perhaps by 2021 or earlier. From a simple retail investing standpoint, an impending recession means that we want to … Continue reading Reviewing means of stashing cash with impending recession in sight →

Seven tips for working on analytics delivery projects

Image not relevant to content below. Source. Following are seven tips / tricks / hacks that I came to learnt (some of them the hard way) and compiled as a data scientist / delivery consultant / data science consultant. In brief, they are: You to yourself Develop a strategyKeep a delivery journalPlan your daily activitiesFrontload … Continue reading Seven tips for working on analytics delivery projects →