Dexter Tiah was only two years into his first job when he accumulated enough to start his first S$100,000 investment portfolio.
The investor and author of the personal finance book Laughs, Losses and Lessons, shares with Andrea Heng how he achieved this.
Dexter Tiah, investor and author of personal finance book Laughs, Losses and Lessons, talks about how to build a S$100,000 investment portfolio on the Money Talks podcast. (Photo: CNA/Tiffany Ang)
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The investor and author of the personal finance book Laughs, Losses and Lessons, shares with Andrea Heng how he achieved this.
I put a large chunk of my monthly salary, I put my bonus that I received into investments, and those were the kind of steps that I needed to take in order to reach this goal (of a S$100,000 portfolio).

Dexter Tiah, investor and author of personal finance book Laughs, Losses and Lessons, talks about how to build a S$100,000 investment portfolio on the Money Talks podcast. (Photo: CNA/Tiffany Ang)
Jump to these key moments:
- 2:13 Is S$100,000 a reasonable goal to aim for?
- 6:53 Be disciplined and regularly contribute to the portfolio
- 10:55 Building blocks in a S$100,000 portfolio
- 19:04 Various risk levels
- 24:31 Rectifying bad investments
Find more episodes of Money Talks here.
A new episode of Money Talks drops every Tuesday. Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify for the latest updates.
Have a great topic for us? Drop the team an email at cnapodcasts [at] mediacorp.com.sg
Continue reading...