Financial magazine review(s)

Motivation

I have been faithfully subscribing and reading the Economist and the Edge for the past few years (ever since I started investing) until I decide to stop the latter. Instead of just saying why am I dissatisfied with The Edge, I might as well write a simple review of the three finance or business magazine I deemed useful for my interest.

The Economist, my main workhorse of info after the newspapers

Besides the news on papers or over the Internet, I get the most useful geopolitical, macroeconomic information from The Economist. Though I might not agree with all the articles, some are actually biased collection of facts to shape reader views, most articles are nicely written and well argued, especially the articles in the 'Business' and 'Finance and economics' sections. I like it most whenever there are 'special' coverage of a particular topic, e.g. the economy of a particular country, her strengths and weakness, her challenges and opportunities. Price-wise, it really depends on how good a deal one can squeeze from the distributing agent. I always bargain for a 2-year subscription (at quite a steep discount to newsstand price) at the World Book Fair and get the agent to throw in 1-year subscription of any magazine for free (that's how I got The Edge). Anyone with an even cheaper but timely alternative (other then reading from the library free) please let me know. Thanks!

The Edge, thanks but no thanks

I have to say I like to read The Edge... whenever there are nice articles, especially when they ran exclusive coverage of certain companies or particular fields of business. But unfortunately, these articles made up just a tiny portion of each issue, with advertisements, charts, stocks and property listings almost practically filling the rest of the pages. I find myself reading less than 10% of each issue. Info per dollar wise, each 'useful' content in The Edge is really expensive. Thus after renewing for a year when my free subscription of The Edge ends (that comes with The Economist), I terminated it.

Pulses, a better replacement to The Edge

I need to find a finance or business related magazine that give a more Singaporean perspective, the local businesses, the market environment that's closer to me etc. I discover this magazine while loitering around a newsstand when I was too bored, can't remember whether I was too early for an appointment, or the person I'm meeting was late. Anyway, at least 50% of the magazine is 'useful' material. The magazine can be subscribed from SPH:

http://circulation.sph.com.sg/worldatyourdoorstep/product_detail.asp?pd=94&pt=M

Conclusion

We live in an information age and sieving through the tonnes of garbage for useful stuff is getting harder each day. Life can be more pleasant if there are better one-stop, customised source of useful information one can easily digest to become knowledge and attain the wisdom to translate these into concrete results.