Live Well with Michelle

Join Michelle Martin , as she speaks to Rohith Murthy, Founder and Country Manager, SingSaver and  Elizabeth Huang, Head of Consumer Services at Credit Bureau Singapore , about credit scores, credit reports and how both will prove crucial to planning one’s expenses, where the use of credit cards is concerned. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks with Royston Yang, Writer, The Motley Fool , about all the latest developments in the REIT market, identify the best types of REITs to invest in during times of economic uncertainty and give advice on what to absolutely not do when it comes to REITs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you are a retailer or runs a business and have yet to adopt new payment tools, you might want to jump into it because you could miss out on as much as 20 per cent more revenue by not adopting these new payment tools. Roelant Prins, Chief Commercial Officer at Adyen shares more. Adyen is the payment platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies such as Singapore Airlines, Gr...

Join Michelle Martin, as she speaks with Kenneth Lou, CEO of Seedly and independent financial advisor Hariz Maloy on their top tips on how to maximise your CPF savings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At Changi Exhibition Centre owned by SME Experia Events, 15,000 solar panels will be installed on the roof-top, in a long-term agreement with Sembcorp Industries. Whe completed in November 2019, the solar energy system is expected to produce over 7,800 megawatt hours of power annually or enough renewable energy to power more than 1,750 four-room HDB flats for a year. It will also help to avoid ove...

Are retailers in Taiwan looking at crypto for payment systems? Are crypto assets viewed as marginal in Asia or is that changing?   Michelle Martin , as she speaks with  Wong Joon Ian, Managing Director, CoinDesk about the future of money and gets heads up about a new dollar backed "stable" coin to be issued by Paxos, the New York-based exchange and digital coin issuer and crypto exchange...

William Wongso, Indonesia's famous culinary expert shares how he handles being a chef despite having Type 2 diabetes and how going keto has helped him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is property still a great way to grow your wealth in Singapore? Having a BTO flat was extremely important for our parents’ generation because it was key to their first pot of wealth. But is this still the case for us today?  Mohamed Ismail Gafoor, Chairman and CEO of Propnex Limited - Singapore’s largest real estate agency group - shares more. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

The next time you land and find your bags have not, don't worry! Changi Airport's services and ground handling firm SATS’ ‘Ready To Travel’ 2.0 app allows its passengers to keep track of and find their lost bags in any country in the world with its new baggage location service. If your bags are not found after 96 hours, you will receive payouts of between $1,100 and $2,200 per ba...

Their web comic makes finance understandable for everyone! Join Michelle Martin , as she speaks with He Ruiming and Goh Wei Choon of The Woke Salaryman , about not staying broke, getting out of student debt and how to change perspectives on money ( so you have can have more). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to the UN’s 2019 State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World research, some 820 million people did not have enough food to eat in 2018, up from 811 million in 2017 and represents the third consecutive year of increase, with over 513 million of those hungry people calling Asia home. In a move to address this global problem, CropLife Asia - a non-profit society part of a glob...

Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks with Kim Iskyan, Global Investment Analyst, Stansberry Pacific Research , about the latest developments of the ongoing US-China Trade War and the implications they have on stock trading in the Asia-Pacific Region. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to the Economic Intelligence Unit’s - or EIU - 2019 Global Liveability Index, financial hubs like London, New York and Singapore did not fare well in a survey of the world's most pleasant cities to live in. Singapore slipped three places to 40th spot, behind Hong Kong at 38th place, but still ahead of big cities like London at No. 48 and New York at No. 58. Vienna took the top spot...

Entrepreneur Lynn Tan, Managing Director of Ales Group Singapore Pte Ltd started her business armed with belief in her product and a $50 000 loan from an uncle. She's grown a one-woman show to a thriving business with 80 staff and S$15 million annual turnover in less than 10 years. She tells Michelle Martin how changing her business model mid-way was part of the evolution of her brand story. See o...

Michelle Martin finally chats with the author behind a book she has been trying (unsuccessfully) to check out of the library. Engaging, funny and thought-provoking, author Nicholas Walton contemplates if the recipe for Singapore's success so far will see us into the future. He takes us beyond the pages of his book 'Singapore, Singapura: From Miracle to Complacency'.  See omnystudio.com/listen...

Join Michelle Martin , as she speaks with Kenneth Lou, CEO, Seedly and Yeap Ming Feng Ming Feng, Head of Content and Growth, Seedly about the Open Electricity Market, how to identify the best plan for your power needs and debunk myths that surround this new development. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More Singaporeans are now living longer. In fact, Singapore topped the world in life expectancy in 2017 with an expected lifespan of 84.8 years, surging ahead of the traditional chart-topper Japan by more than half a year. But are we ready for retirement here in Singapore and Asia? Andrew Byrne, CEO of Aegon Asia shares more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why is temperament more important than intelligence in investing? What's second level thinking and how do you use it? Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks with one of Singapore's most awarded fund managers, Daniel Chan, Founder, DCG Capital ,  on the art of picking winning stocks and lessons anyone can use from Daniel's own journey as an investor across almost 40 years. See omnystudio.c...

Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks with award-winning Irish bestselling author, John Connolly, about his latest title 'A Book of Bones', his popular Charlie Parker series and how he has continually created books that resonate with readers for almost 20 years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks with Xav Fung, Director of Lipper Asia Pacific Research , about the most recent developments in the CPF Investment Scheme, the various investment instruments under the Scheme, the sort of returns we’ve seen recently and what you need to know before investing with the CPF-IS.  He also compares the latest quarterly results with those of Q1, and d...

Join Michelle Martin , as she speaks with Timothy Chen, Co-Founder and CEO, MaxFinx , LIVE from Suntec City, about the rise of digital banking, how it will impact traditional players, and how MaxFinx plays a role in the shift in the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Being born as a refugee in Vietnam in 1979 when there were no papers claiming to any state back then, he lived through a difficult childhood when food was scarce and his home country was in turmoil from the tails of the Third Indochina War. But his determined parents fought hard for the family's survival despite the adversities. Fast-forward to today, he has his own restaurant and aims to bring ho...

Michelle Martin , asks  Christopher Long, Founder, Cryptotrader SG , if anyone can build passive income streams with cryptocurrency today and how to buy into altcoins. What's the difference between using a crypto ATM and buying online? Does Chris think there is still opportunity to make money with Bitcoin if you enter the market now? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks to Mattia Asti, Business Development Manager, APAC, Getronics , about the future of Smart Buildings and how 5G technology will play a key role in the development of smart buildings here in Singapore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Singapore’s banking industry is liberalising. In June this year, MAS announced that it will issue up to five new digital bank licences, extending the digital bank licences to non-bank players. This is in addition to any digital banks that the Singapore banking groups may also establish under the existing internet banking framework. Join  Michelle Martin , as she speaks with Rohith Murth...