19 October 2021
Market View: The launch of the Bitcoin ProShares ETF, merger between ESR REIT and ARA Logos Logistics Trust, China's Q3 GDP, Fantasia Holdings, P&G, J&J and Singapore's stocks in early trade
What is the advantage to the investor of the launch of the Bitcoin ProShares ETF today? What can we make of consolidation in the REIT sector? Were China's third quarter numbers a surprise? What can we make of earning season so far?

Michelle Martin and Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management at Financial Alliance discuss.

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13 October 2021
Bigger Picture: IMF trims global growth outlook, warns about dangerous divergence
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses what investors should take away from the latest forecast by the International Monetary Fund, which warns that the recovery momentum is fading and poorer countries are struggling to get access to vaccines.

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16 September 2021
Bigger Picture: China's clampdown on casinos
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses how China is cracking down on the "seven deadly sins" and reports about Temasek and GIC planning to invest more in the local stock markets.

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2 September 2021
Bigger Picture: Changing paradigm with herd immunity a more distant hope
Sani Hamid, Director, Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses how the recent shift in thinking in managing COVID-19 affects how investors approach vaccinated and unvaccinated economies.

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19 August 2021
Bigger Picture: Fed Minutes signal tapering this year
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses what investors should takeaway from the Fed's latest minutes and where the division in the views lay.

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8 July 2021
Bigger Picture: China expands crackdown on overseas listed firms
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses the impact of China's expanded crackdown on overseas listed firms, the less hawkish tone from the FOMC's latest minutes and the upside for the STI amid restrictions being lifted.

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27 May 2021
Bigger Picture: Big Oil under bigger pressure to go greener
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses the investment prospects of oil companies amid renewed pressure on them to go greener faster, and where crypto currencies fit alongside gold in an investment portfolio.

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1 April 2021
Bigger Picture: Biden's infrastructure plans & tax hikes
Sani Hamid, Director of wealth management, Financial Alliance discusses how markets will price in official unveiling of President Biden's infrastructure bill, which is alongside plans to hike tax rates to 28%.

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4 March 2021
Bigger Picture: Does the STI need a makeover urgently?
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses whether the Straits Times Index needs a revamp to have more diversity of sectors and equal weightings of individual companies.

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18 February 2021
Bigger Picture: Texas deep freeze threatens oil market crisis
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth management, Financial Alliance, discusses the spike in oil prices as 40 percent of US crude production goes offline, and if the inverse relationship between bonds and stocks is still intact.

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21 January 2021
Bigger Picture: Lookback on wealth management in 2020 & Outlook for 2021
On Bigger Picture, IG Senior Market Strategist, Pan Jingyi speaks to Sani Hamid, Director for Wealth Management, Financial Alliance who shares a summary of wealth management in 2020 and trends he is looking into for 2021 in terms of asset allocation.

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7 January 2021
Bigger Picture: Markets shake off Capitol Hill chaos
Sani Hamid, Director of Wealth Management, Financial Alliance, discusses why investors are more focused on the Blue Sweep of Congress than the unprecedented storming of Capitol Hill by hundreds of Trump supporters.

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