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First REIT – A Happy Dilemma?

May 23, 2013 by Derek Lim

With First REIT hitting historical high, there are three actions I can take: Do nothing. Sell everything. Sell some of it. Before exploring each option, I calculated my returns using XIRR. As seen from the spreadsheet above, I made an annualized return of 27.18%. There are many scenarios and I’m trying to come out with [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

XMH Stock

May 22, 2013 by Ah Tom

XMH stock is now the rage these days as investors chase up the stock after the former CEO of DBS bank, Koh Boon Hwee made a substantial acquisition of XMH stock . XMH stock stock made it to one of the top volume and top gainer stocks on SGX yesterday. With so much frenzy over [...]

in Categories: Investing

Tadas Viskanta: "Cash is a Drug for most investors"

May 22, 2013 by B

Tadas Viskanta – the author who wrote the book “Abnormal Returns” has recently tweeted: “Cash is a Drug for most investors. Easy to start, difficult to kick. Always a reason not to get back in” With the stock markets hitting a new high these days, the idea of holding cash becomes a scrutiny and natural options [...]

in Categories: Investing

Safety Bubble?

May 22, 2013 by financiallyfreenow

Two articles in today’s Straits Times caught my eye. One was “Reits look like good bets to yield-hungry investors” and the other was “GIC more cautious in going for higher returns“. Both talked about a “bubbly” situation. The first article touched on the FTSE ST REITs Index outperforming the Straits Times Index by 4% since [...]

in Categories: Market Review and Trends

An angry comment from a reader

May 22, 2013 by Greatsage

Attached below is a comment from one of my readers in response to my post “Why I don’t believe in financial advisor”. I feel that there is a need to clarify my position and let my readers know more about my background. I work in the aviation industry and has never worked in the financial [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Emmotional Spending – A.K.A Retail Therapy

May 22, 2013 by RetireSG

How often have you succumbed to this? What the hell is retail therapy? I feel that it is just another term coined by marketers and advertisers to make us feel as if we can reduce stress and be happier just by spending more money. I know that most of us work 8 to 10 hours [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

Daily Market Opinion for 22-May-2013

May 22, 2013 by Jay Chia

Daily Market Opinion for 22-May-2013 STI failed to keep its heads up yesterday and sinks lower as concerns of Bernanke’s speech looms the market. STI opened flat during the opening session but it failed to sustain the level. Sellers was quick to be seen during the morning session which pushed STI to as low as [...]

in Categories: Active Trading, Investing, Market Review and Trends, Technical Analysis

Market View 22 May 2013

May 22, 2013 by Stock Lobang

Ok, a few things to say this morning.I have done a write-up on the IPO, Soilbuild Construction in my IPO Blog so if you are interested, head there and take a look. It is basically a IPO punt for me and I will see how its Myanmar venture turn-up to be. The closing date for [...]

in Categories: Market Review and Trends

3 Parts to a Trading Strategy

May 22, 2013 by BigFatPurse

In recent years, I have been selective about the investment talks and seminars I attend. I found the talk on investment psychology interesting and I attended it on Sunday, 19 May 13. The speaker was Wong Kok Fai, who appeared in TV programs such as Money Mind, Business Tonight, 财经追击. He is currently an algo trader at Azurewing [...]

in Categories: Active Trading, Investing

Retirement Income for Life??? (12)

May 22, 2013 by Createwealth8888

Read? Retirement Income for Life??? (9) Read? Retirement Income for Life??? (11) Like it or not. One day, we must live on our retirement income for life. See the diagram below: Uncle8888 passed this copy of retirement planning worksheet to somebody. After simulating with the retirement planning Excel worksheet, he told me that his initial [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

The Truth About Buying a USA Investment Property

May 21, 2013 by Propwise.sg

By Gerald Tay (guest contributor) The success of my overseas property investments in the last three years is due to co-investing with trustworthy foreign partners, whom themselves have decades of property investment experience in that particular country both as a local and investor. I have never bought an overseas investment property from property seminars or [...]

in Categories: Investing, Property

Sell (stocks) in May and go away?

May 21, 2013 by Ah Tom

Amidst all the market actions on the SGX, it is important to keep a level-head at all times and take a step back some time to keep stock of what is happening on the stocks market. I mean, it is quite easy to get excited with the buzz of hot stocks with emotions becoming high. [...]

in Categories: Investing

Review of Boustead (Full Year) FY2013 Results

May 21, 2013 by B

I previously mentioned (link) that Boustead Ltd will report excellent results for its full year FY2013. EPS for the 9 months of FY2013 at that time of writing was already matching the full 12 months of FY2012. I wasn’t wrong. Since then, Boustead shares have gone higher and higher each day to a record high of [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

Keppel Corporation: Sells 6.7% of Keppel REIT at S$1.555/unit

May 21, 2013 by Createwealth8888

Keppel Corporation (KEP) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Real Estate Investment Pte Ltd, has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Goldman Sachs (the placement agent) for the sale of 180m units of Keppel REIT (6.7% of total issued units of KREIT) for S$1.555/unit. The aggregate cash consideration of S$279.9m took into [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

The five “suspected” asset bubbles in 2013

May 21, 2013 by Ivan Guan

Most of the articles you read will try to tell you what to invest, but today will share with you what not to invest. I am inspired by this twitter post. Though I cannot verify if it is indeed from UBS’s report, but I agree most of the points. A consequence of ultra-loose monetary policy [...]

in Categories: Investing, Market Review and Trends

Government confirmed that Singaporeans are discriminated in the financial industry

May 21, 2013 by Greatsage

Last week, I read a Straits Times article on “Government to boost pool of local finance experts”. Apparently, PM Lee was the guest-of-honour at the official opening of the Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC). Incidentally, I was at MBFC last month to meet up with Zane Lim from BullionStar Singapore. The office was indeed impressive and I thought [...]

in Categories: Career

Stock Update: Biosensors Receives CE Mark Approval for BioMatrix NeoFlex™

May 21, 2013 by Greatsage

Below is a press release from Biosensors. SG Web Reviews has been monitoring the company for quite sometimes and is of the opinion that Biosensor has a lot of potential to grow. Just like Apple, Biosensors has the ability to cannabalise its older products, which is a hallmark of a forward-looking innovative companies. Not vested in this counter. Biosensors International Group, Ltd. [...]

in Categories: Investing

Keeping HDB flats affordable.

May 21, 2013 by AK71

There is an on-going debate on whether HDB flats are actually subsidised. Personally, I believe that the flats are subsidised because the government could otherwise sell state land to private developers for much higher prices. A while back, Mr. Khaw Boon Wan, in an interview, revealed that ”every year, hundreds of millions of dollars of losses were [...]

in Categories: Property

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