SGX Daily Pulse: Singapore's #1 Ranking Can't Outrun Inflation | EP1662 🦖

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SGX Daily Pulse: Singapore's #1 Ranking Can't Outrun Inflation | EP1662 🦖

ingapore just reclaimed the “world’s most competitive economy” crown, but the investor who plays it safe with cash is suddenly on the wrong side of the numbers. When 6‑month T‑bills are paying about 1.48 percent while private economists are lifting their core inflation forecasts to around 2 percent, the textbook definition of “risk free” quietly turns into a guaranteed loss in real purchasing power for anyone sitting on large CPF OA, SRS cash, or idle bank deposits.

For a 55‑year‑old in Bedok, the question is no longer whether Singapore is doing well, it is whether your personal balance sheet is keeping up with the new inflation path when your safest options are yielding less than the rising cost of groceries and healthcare. That is why I keep hammering the 4.7 percent minimum yield hurdle, not as a magic number, but as a sanity check on any move out of CPF and into the market in a year where MAS, private economists and even the T‑bill auctions are all pulling in different directions.

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