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I am starting to really like STI ETF(ES3) recently after accumulating it solely during the downturn(although not enough!). This is just my own personal opinion as I am sure many people out there still prefer to pick individual blue chips in hopes to beat the market and get better yield.
STI ETF has a low expense ratio, and it drastically reduces unsystematic risk(One would get expose to that if they have concentration of a few individual stocks). I always believe in having a diversified portfolio both breadth(different uncorrelated asset classes) and width(different kinds in the same asset class). Of course one cannot assume a complete -1 correlation between any two asset classes, but a bond asset class and an equity asset class would make a good cookie cutter to ......