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Two Ideas That Will Change Your View About Investing Forever

May 17, 2012 by FF
One day, when I was taking a shower (now readers know where all my inspiration comes from!!), I reflected on my years of working, investing, conversations with friends/family/colleague and tried to distill what were the two most important ideas or messages that I should tell anyone who was getting started on investing/retirement planning/personal finance. You [...]

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Bill Ng Rangers Bid

May 11, 2012 by FF
Glad to read in the newspaper about a Singaporean, Bill Ng, who made a bid for Rangers football club and is now in the running again to buy the club despite earlier suggestions that he was out of the race. Reminds me of Peter Lim, the billionaire who was also bidding for Liverpool football club [...]

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Why I Write

May 11, 2012 by FF
I was sad to discover that a fellow blogger had stopped writing.  He gave his farewell posting a few months back and I chanced upon it while I was just surfing around.  I am happy for him that he has decided that there are more important things to tend to. Anyway, it got me questioning [...]

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GAMCO Global Gold and Natural Resources Income Trust (GGN)

May 11, 2012 by FF
Just bought another 200 shares of Gamco Global Gold and Natural Resources Income Trust.(GGN).  GGN pays out a monthly dividend of US$0.14.  The dividends have been paid out steadily over the years so I thought I should just load up more of it when the market is down.  Bought 200 shares at US$14.60 which is [...]

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Dividends and Passive Income for April 2012

May 8, 2012 by FF
Dividends and passive income for April 2012 was close to $600.  This was contributed mainly from selling off my Pacific Andes rights and collecting the dividends that were also paid out by Pacific Andes.  Pacific Andes is a stock that I have been holding for some time now but I just did not feel comfortable [...]

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Innotek Dividends and Ex Dividend Share Price

May 8, 2012 by FF
I have been holding Innotek for a few years now and am pleased that it had recently announced that it would be paying out 5 cents in dividends per share again for this year.  Innotek has been paying out dividends consistently over the past few years that I have owned this stock.  Anyway, Innotek was [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

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The Death of Reading

May 5, 2012 by FF
Reading is slowly becoming a dying hobby.  I am not surprised that many bookshops around Singapore have closed down.  First it was Borders at Wheelock, followed by PageOne at Vivocity and also Harris in Great World.  Will bookshops become a thing of the past?  Why are these bookshops not profitable? These are questions that I [...]

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First REIT – Sold Off Again

April 28, 2012 by FF
I bought First REIT just recently.  After the share price rose by more than 10 cents in the last month or so, I decided that it was a good time to lock in some profits or more than a thousand dollars.  Just sold off the 10 lots that I owned at 89.5 cents a share. [...]

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Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

April 24, 2012 by FF
Certain that many people have read this article before but guess it is always good to re-visit this article.  Tamworth-based writer and blogger Bronnie Ware shared from her experience as a palliative care nurse the various main life lessons from hours spent with the dying.  These are the top 5 regrets and it is something [...]

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Long Weekend

April 7, 2012 by FF
Wishing all Christian readers a  most blessed Good Friday and Easter.  Hope you all enjoy the long weekend and find rest.  It has been a restful weekend thus far for me and I hope all readers find the same rest that I have been having.  Just lounging around and doing nothing much.

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Silver Bullion and Coin Collection

April 4, 2012 by FF
Have been slowly building up my coin collection of silver including a few bullion.  As of today, I have the Canadian Maple Leaf, American Eagle, Austrian Philharmonic, Buffalo coins and some Scottsdale Silver bars.  Many of them are mainly 1 troy oz and some of them are sealed in airtight containers. The coins are nice [...]

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Crossed the 250,000 Page Views

April 1, 2012 by FF
Not too long ago, I shared that this blog has crossed the 210,000 pageview mark.  I am happy to say that this site has surprisingly and beyond my wildest expectations crossed the 250,000 page view milestone earlier this week.  Thank you readers for your support, advice, comfort, jokes that you have shared with me along [...]

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Dividends and Rights Issue

March 26, 2012 by FF
Being a very analytical sort of person, I cannot really understand why listed companies will have a rights issue while also declaring dividends at almost the same time.   My simple mind tells me that rights issue is to access capital while issuing dividends is almost akin to giving away money.  So why ask for [...]

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Don’t Write When You Have Nothing To Write About

March 24, 2012 by FF
Well, that’s the mentality I have been taking nowadays.  I haven’t felt a strong urge to write about anything and that perhaps explains the irregularity in posting any new articles.  I don’t feel like there is anything new in terms of knowledge that I can contribute at the moment, and so I stopped writing for [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

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Salary of Fresh Graduates

March 12, 2012 by FF
Survey results are out on the starting salary for fresh grads: SMU Leads the charts.  Class of 2011 earns average of $3,388.  Top 20 per cent of the cohort earned gross monthly salary of $5,039.  Graduates from Information Systems Management earned an average of $3,637 per month. Those with GPA 3.40 to 3.59 earned an [...]

in Categories: Personal Finance

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Losing Grip on Time

March 10, 2012 by FF
I feel like I am losing grip on time, and time is just literally, slipping me by.  Every week, I can’t help but exclaim, that another week has passed.  It is simply way too amazing for me to fathom.  It seems like one moment I am brushing my teeth, getting ready to go to work. [...]

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Tarnish on Silver

March 8, 2012 by FF
Tarnish has appeared on some of my silver bullion.  I bought some candian silver maple leaf some time back and used my bare hands to handle them.  I thought that the oils on my finger ruining the coin was just superstition by those crazy coin collectors.  After all, we handle coins everyday and I don’t [...]

in Categories: Shares and Derivatives

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Minimum Wage Move for Malaysia?

March 5, 2012 by FF
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister said that the government had reached an agreement with the private sector on the need for a minimum wage policy.  Based on a certain website, it was rumored that the Cabinet had agreed to set a minimum wage of below RM1,000 for the 3.2million workers in the private sector, with a [...]

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