A portrait by the modernist master Amedeo Modigliani has sold for over US$157m – rising nearly six times in value. But experts say you don’t have to be a millionaire to reap rich rewards from art investments. 

Guests: Blair Thomson, Co-founder and Director of the Addicted Art Gallery; and Troy Sadler, Managing Director of contemporary art investment company Art Works.

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With life expectancy rising, is retirement becoming redundant? And how can we make the most of a career change later in life? 

Guests: Diana Low, Partner with recruitment agency Page Executive South East Asia and John Holden, Executive Coach and Organisational Consultant with career coaching consultancy, Mind Odyssey.

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A new report has ranked Singapore 3rd out of 18 Asia Pacific countries for gender equality at the workplace. What have we got right, and how can we do better? Our guest this week is Junie Foo, Chair and Co-Founder of BoardAgender - an initiative to create awareness on the economic benefits of having more women on boards. She explains the importance of having women in leadership positions, and describes how she herself broke barriers during her career at a male-dominated Japanese bank.

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Companies in Singapore are reinventing their strategies to hire and retain millennial workers. Are they high-maintenance or just misunderstood?

Guests: James Loo, Executive Director of Group Human Resources at DBS Bank; Edward Tan, Technology Executive with DBS Bank; and Benedict Wong, Head of Product Experience and Design at online investment platform Fundnel.

They discuss how millennials are seeking new experiences rather than actively job-hopping (07:27), how competencies have become more important than qualifications (16:02) and examples of what's being done to keep millennials engaged at the workplace (22:00).

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CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted to Congress that Facebook collects data on non-users too. Do we have any control over our data?

Guests: Alex Capri, Senior Fellow and lecturer at the NUS Business School. And Sheena Chin, Country Director of the Singapore arm of digital management company Veritas.

They discuss how companies scrape our data (09:44), whether we have control over our data (10:52), and threats to Facebook's business model (20:02).

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Japanese e-commerce company Start Today Co. has offered to pay "genius" tech experts almost a million dollars a year. Is this the new normal? We'll also get an assessment of tech stocks after a rough week. Eeo Hui Ting, a consultant with recruitment agency Robert Walters Singapore, explains what qualities one needs to be considered a "genius" (3:44), why Start Today Co. is willing to pay so much (4:24), what to consider before embarking on a career in the tech industry (12:47) and how to tell if someone is worth a million dollars (14:40).

Geoff Howie, Market Strategist from the Singapore Exchange asseses the fundamentals of the tech sector (24:04) and examines investor sentiment amid the threat of a US-China trade war (28:55).

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En bloc fever is back in Singapore, with the sale of the Pacific Mansion condominium set to turn its owners into millionaires. We ask experts why developers were willing to fork out S$980 million for Pacific Mansion (4:47), how to tell if a property has the potential to be sold en bloc (11:00), and to describe the state of the rental market (24:28). Guests: Winston Lee, Regional Head of Special Projects from the PropertyGuru Group. And Daryl Lum, CEO of private equity firm More Assets Investments and Insurance.

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What is the best way to put your career in the fast lane to success? An MBA, a specialist master’s degree, or neither? Guests: Nilay Khandelwal, Regional Director of employment agency Michael Page Singapore. Kevin Tan, MBA student and tech entrepreneur behind the mobile food and beverage ordering app, CutQ.

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Sales of electric cars are accelerating, but what happens when the battery runs out? Also, will autonomous vehicles become mainstream by 2025 (20:15)? Guests: motoring journalist Sheldon Trollope, and Franck Vitte, Managing Director of electric car sharing company BlueSG.

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We ask if the latest offerings from the 2018 Mobile World Congress, such as the Samsung Galaxy S9, will help boost falling smartphone sales. Guests: Kiranjeet Kaur, Senior Research Manager from market intelligence firm IDC. And Wilson Wong, technology journalist with Techgoondu.com.

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