Time flies , It has been more than a year after my first published of STE Smart Beta concept and bench-marking against STI Index.
FYI , I have started my STE Smart Beta on 28th Aug 2016 with capital of $100K with equal weighted investing in 14 stocks which fall under the criteria of PE<10 or Dividend Yield >5%.
You may find the detail in this link (here ).Now , let’s look at the result of STE Smart Beta vs STI Index from 28th Aug 2016 till 25th Aug 2017 :
It seems that STE Smart Beta has out-performed the STI Index by 5.7% exclude dividend.
YZJ Shipping clearly out-performed others with outstanding returned of 103% and follow by GLP (75%) , DBS (35%) , UOB (31%) and OCBC (27%).
Banking stocks have shown good returns in 2017 till YTD which have greatly contributed for this better
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