by Hui-Chin Chen, CFP® | Last updated Aug 6, 2020 | Published on Jun 6, 2020 | Money and the heart, Work with financial planner
This post is the culmination of reflections on my person experience and world events so far in 2020. It’s fitting that I am committing them to writing on June 4th, a date memorialized for pursuit of freedom from an authoritative system by Chinese-speaking diaspora. As...
by Hui-Chin Chen, CFP® | Last updated Apr 20, 2020 | Published on Apr 1, 2020 | Money and the heart
It’s been over three months since I started following the development of Covid-19 pandemic. As most of the world now entering a new phase of combating the disease, I decided to put in words what I have been through and what I have been thinking about. They center...
by Hui-Chin Chen, CFP® | Published on Jul 30, 2019 | Money and the heart, Work with financial planner
Recently I encountered a situation that allowed me to discover a new approach to financial planning. Normally, clients come to me with some existing “goals.” They might not know clearly about the amount, the timing, or the importance of these goals, but they have...
by Hui-Chin Chen, CFP® | Last updated Jun 28, 2019 | Published on Jun 28, 2019 | Money and the heart
This post is about making the right financial decisions. To get to that, I’m going to start with a real-life basketball story. 2018-2019 NBA season just wrapped up a couple weeks ago. As an NBA enthusiast, I was glad to see the Raptors brought home their first...
by Hui-Chin Chen, CFP® | Last updated Nov 29, 2018 | Published on Nov 28, 2018 | Money and the heart
You are now reading the 100th post of this blog! Thank you for being part of this journey, no matter when you started. In 2014, while in Auckland, I began responding to some common personal finance questions from expats that I’ve seen over and over in community...
by Hui-Chin Chen, CFP® | Last updated Jul 20, 2018 | Published on Nov 29, 2017 | Money and the heart
Do you want to build wealth? In modern society, we seem conditioned to say yes to this question. Who wouldn’t want to build wealth? Build is a positive verb, implying that we work hard to create something that lasts. And wealth sounds better than money, like it...
I'm Hui-chin Chen, a globetrotter & certified financial planner helping you manage your finances from afar and on the go.