It has been said that you cannot go wrong buying the big 3 Singapore banks. Have they been good investments for you? STI ETF The best way to compare them is to compare versus the STI ETF. The STI exchange traded fund invests in a basket of Singapore blue chip stocks on Singapore’s main board. The largest constituents is of course Singtel and the 3 big banks. I wasn’t able to find a good chart of the STI etf, so I got this off the factsheet. Singapore did really well since the 2001 recession and you will not be disappointed with the returns. (click to view larger chart) I use my SGX Singapore Stocks Factsheet to calculate what would happen if a guy invests since 2001-2002 and what is his total returns is like [view my full spreadsheet here >>] The total annualized return is 9%. Of the ......