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With effect from 7 Feb 2020 (Friday), SGX will drop the quarterly reporting (“QR”) requirement for listed companies. QR was implemented in 2003 and applicable to companies with market capitalization over S$75Mil. The current need to do QR for listed company will be dependent on risk assessment basis. In place will be a risk focused governance regime based on continuous disclosure. Main reasons cited for change I was very disappointed by the announcement as quarterly release of financial results give retail investors like myself more timely visibility to the overall health of the business. Apparently, what triggered the downgrade in...

Lunar New Year is coming! Do you folks feel the CNY celebratory mood already? It is interesting that every year, many shopping malls start displaying giant Chinese Zodiac Fengshui Forecast stand. This year is no exception. I can see many shoppers gathered around them and reading them in full concentration. Sometimes, I wonder how accurate are these fortune telling forecasts which categorise the global population into 12 different types of destiny for the upcoming year. Only 12 scenarios to guide everyone…..whaha. May everyone prosper in your investments and HUAT...

The dark side about investing and blogging (just like Star Wars Skywalker vs Palpatine- there will always be light and dark in the Force) is that there are some sinister folks lurking in some dark corner condemning your every investment action and then gloating if one’s investments started making losses albeit the fact that there are very few investors who strike gold with every investment decisions that they made without a single failure.  The topic that I am going to touch on today is on under-highlighted points to take note of using leverage through margin financing facility provided by...

There is not much changes since my last update except for paring down of stakes in SingMedical Group and taking up positions over 3 tranches into Eagle Hospitality Trust. I have also moved part of my cash investments into my margin portfolio. My own goal for FY2020 will be to further reduce the volatility of my margin portfolio in order to enhance the resiliency of the dividend/interest income stream against market downturn for this new investment approach. My current overall projected annual recurring income has increased by around 52% using this newly created investment portfolio.Singapore Press Holdings Looking Attractive...

Apparently, the Kaya Toast set is quite unique in Singapore and Malaysia. It consists of (i) 1 coffee or tea, (ii) Kaya Toast and (iii) Eggs (half boil/hard boil). I have an interesting story from a colleague who went on board Cruise ship for a short holiday. While doing breakfast in bed, he requested the kitchen to bring him toast and also half boiled eggs. When the room service staff delivered the breakfast set, he took out a small knife and cut the hard boiled egg into half. Then he said to my colleague: “Sir, please enjoy your half...

Ever since the announcement of the upcoming merger between Frasers Commercial Trust (“FCOT”) and Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust (“FLT”), it gave rise to the strange situation of an arbitrage forming due to wide pricing fluctuation between the 2 REITs. Arbitrage is the process of exploiting differences in the price of an asset by simultaneously buying and selling it and in the process, the arbitrageur pockets an almost risk free return. For example,  On 3rd December 2019, the price of FCOT suddenly shot up to S$1.72 when the offered price for the merger exercise valued it at S$1.68.Extract of...

In a surprising twist of fate, both Frasers Commercial Trust (“FCT”) and Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust (“FLIT”) announced a trading halt. According to the Business Times, their ”secret sources” revealed that both REITs will be joined in holy matrimony and merged into one entity. The “secret sources” identity also cannot be revealed as the information is still private. As always, news seems to have leaked ahead of the trading suspension and the unit price of both REITs increased suddenly above their normal trading range for no apparent reason over the past few days. FCT and FLIT seems to...

I was flabbergasted by some folks from Hong Kong who seem extremely pleased with the passing of the Hong Kong human rights bill by the US Senate. The bill if executed will be mostly detrimental to Hong Kong’s economy. It will lead to economic slowdown and also job losses for the Hong Kong people. Under this weird bill, the US Secretary of State would have to certify at least once a year that Hong Kong retains enough autonomy to qualify for special US trading consideration that bolsters the status of Hong Kong as a world financial centre. Losing the...

Singtel is a very funny and weird stock. In late December 2018 to early Jan 2019, the share price dropped below S$3 per share when it was making quarterly profits of over S$680Mil. However, when it was announced recently that Singtel had made a huge loss of <S$668Mil> for its second quarter results, its share price dropped only slightly from S$3.30 to S$3.18 which is a mere decline of only <3.64%>.  I am not sure whether shareholders of Singtel recalled that in March 2019, Singtel had just subscribed to a rights issue of S$730Mil  worth of additional shares for...