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Singapore’s AI push needs a defensive shield to protect workers

While Singapore invests heavily in helping businesses deploy AI, it offers inadequate protection for the workers who are most exposed to AI-driven displacement.

Save more in CPF now if you want to invest in the new scheme in 2028

Use more cash to pay to repay home loan so that you have a higher balance in CPF to invest in the new scheme.

New life-cycle funds suited for CPF members with longer investment horizon: Financial experts

Life-cycle funds are designed to automatically adjust a portfolio’s asset allocation from higher-risk assets, such as equities, to lower-risk assets, such as bonds, as retirement nears.

Commentary

Is Singapore prepared for a ‘rent-a-human’ world?

Near term financial implications for corporations aside, AI’s impact and widening spread are unquestionable, says the writer.

News analysis

PARF changes likely to spur more COE renewals, tilt balance further towards EVs

Revised PARF rebate scheme makes EVs even more attractive to car buyers, by hitting non-EVs more..

Commentary

6 months to show you that AI is much more than a smarter Google

Career resilience increasingly depends on the ability to self-direct development and experiment with new competencies before transitions become urgent.

$15.1b budget surplus reflects uncertain economy, cyclical windfalls, say economists

The difference between the government’s estimate and the eventual budget surplus reflects Singapore’s exposure to global profit cycles, said one economist.

Will an endowment of $300,000 per child move the needle?

Modest transfers do little to offset a lifetime's "motherhood penalty". What can Singapore do to encourage family formation?

News analysis

Enhanced ComLink+ packages give low-income families a stronger nudge up the social ladder

The new measures reflect an acknowledgement that families with the fewest resources face multiple, complex and persistent challenges that are not easily overcome.

Commentary

Budget 2026: Singapore’s SkillsFuture reset must go beyond just AI readiness

PM Lawrence Wong announced during Budget 2026 that Workforce Singapore and SkillsFuture Singapore would be merged into a single agency overseeing skills training, career guidance and job matching services.

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