The Straits Times Podcasts S2E27: Should you invest your CPF?
Investing your CPF might be exciting, but ensure you have enough too for housing and retirement.
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Retirement seems like ages away for a young person, and the CPF that accumulates can feel like money just sitting in a fund.
But what can we use CPF for? And should we all invest our CPF?
In this episode, ST business correspondent Sue-Ann Tan looks at how to use your CPF, whether for investment or housing needs.
Her guests are Angeline Teo from CPF Board and Gen Z undergrad Quang Long.
Highlights (click/tap above):
2:58 What are the different CPF accounts?
9:54 How do CPF savings grow?
11:50 Using CPF for housing
14:55 What CPF cannot be used for
16:28 How to invest your CPF
20:05 Other considerations when investing your CPF
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Host: Sue-Ann Tan (suetan@sph.com.sg)
Produced & edited by: Amirul Karim
Executive producers: Ernest Luis, Lynda Hong & Joanna Seow
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