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Ship Repair is important as a recurring income business segment

January 31, 2012 by Drizzt
ST Marine’s president spoke on the importance of having both ship repair and ship building in one facility: The ship repair generates recurring revenue, and often at better margins. But in ship repair, you need fast turnaround time, which is not just dependent on they workforce but also on the ability to get spare parts [...]

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Why does ST Engineering, Keppel and Sembcorp need to compete in the same industry

January 30, 2012 by Drizzt
So I was reading The EDGE and in this article profiling ST Marine, it raised an interesting point: “Recently, ST Engineering began building on its engineering capabilities to develop an environmental engineering business – similar to the ones that Keppel and Sembcorp Industries have.” What I find it strange is that why does 3 Temasek-linked [...]

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Apple becoming a mega important stock! Can anyone stop them?? $AAPL $GOOG

January 25, 2012 by Drizzt
This morning as I was scanning through my feeds, I have been flooded by some startling numbers from Apple. Basically it was the second most profitable quarter for any company, trailing only Exxon Mobil’s record quarter in 2008 due to the oil price surge. Now the crazy thing about Apple is that it started off [...]

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A peak into the future of telecom profitability 2012-Singtel, Starhub and M1

January 22, 2012 by Drizzt
Telecom stock’s profitability is affected by technology substitutes, size of capital expenditures and the ability to monetize and fight for market share. We talk a lot of telecom stocks at Investment Moats, and if you would like to know what I thought about them and their direction take a look at the following articles Primer [...]

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Should you take advantage of the SMRT situation and invest now?

January 14, 2012 by Drizzt
So I really get this question a lot on all channels: Given the negative sentiments with the issues faced by SMRT, do you think it is a good time to invest in SMRT? I think its one stock most people classify as pillow stock because SMRT will always be around. Rather than do an in-depth [...]

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Closure of ipac Singapore

January 13, 2012 by Martin Lee
Financial planning firm ipac has announced the closure of their Singapore and Hong Kong business. It puts an end to an unique advice-centric business model where advisers are paid a salary rather than commissions. Apparently, this model has not worked well for ipac, who made a loss of $4.5 million in 2010 and a cumulative [...]

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Funding options

January 10, 2012 by Greatsage
I was doing some research on funding options for entrepreneurs in Singapore and decided to blog down some of my newly-acquired knowledge. We have often heard about angel investors, venture capitalists, seed funding and incubators. Many question and wonder the roles, involvement and motives of these various categories of investors with regards to the development [...]

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Understanding the Concept of Demand and Supply

January 8, 2012 by Createwealth8888
Passive Income – Rental vs Dividend Yield (3) Understanding the Concept of Demand and Supply I believe most of us know what is Demand and Supply in Economic theory; but allow me to take it a bit further into passive income. How do we get paid for passive income? Read? Saving, Lending and Investing (3) [...]

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High business cost in Singapore

January 7, 2012 by Tan Kin Lian
I read that Nokia has decided to move its Asian headquarters from Singapore to Beijing, citing high operating cost and other reasons. Google choose Kuala Lumpur to be their regional base, instead of Singapore.A friend, who was in charge of planning for a large multi-national company with wafer fab operations in various countries in Asia [...]

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Adampak: What does SSD replacing Magnetic Hard Disks mean to them

December 31, 2011 by Drizzt
Adampak is a label converter with a large client base in electronics,pharmaceutical, petroleum and other industries. I recently took notice of this little company due to the recent gloom for hard disk parts manufacturers from the Thailand flood problems. Many of them were beaten down so I thought why not do a study and the [...]

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Next Telecom Frontier:Maximize the data pipe

December 26, 2011 by Drizzt
Not going to talk about much but 1 week ago I read this article talking about Vodacom, South African Telco have secure license from the Financial Services Board to begin selling insurance products directly to its customers. They are not the only one. Rogers Communications in Canada is also filling papers to start a bank. [...]

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Buffet Tiered 3G Plan to be abolised

December 24, 2011 by Drizzt
At Investment Moats, I talked about it pretty early that we may eventually follow the US in abolishing all-you-can-eat mobile data plan to one where you are charge based on your usage. Do read these articles if you haven’t: Primer to telecom investing: Singtel, M1, Starhub Starhub, M1 and Singtel’s existing telecom business model approaches [...]

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Achieved Associate Financial Planner Certification AFP

December 23, 2011 by Calvin Yeo
According to the website, here’s what I am qualified to do. The ASSOCIATE FINANCIAL PLANNERCM or AFPCM will be competent to recommend general financial planning strategies and to advise on the appropriate selection and use of various financial products for individuals, e.g. insurance, unit trusts, and a broad range of securities and banking products. What [...]

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Advisers fear of not able to pass new exams

December 19, 2011 by Wilfred Ling
In the Straits Times today entitled Agents fear they can’t measure up, many financial advisers expressed fear that they may not be able to pass the two new exams required by the regulator. For those who are advising on collective investment schemes (CIS), they are required to pass “M8A – Collective Investment Schemes II” while [...]

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agents fear they can’t measure up

December 19, 2011 by Patrick Lim
as part of the new safeguards to protect retail investors, a new test, namely the capital markets and financial advisory services examination module 9a (M9A) for insurance agents marketing life insurance products has been introduced by the monetary authority of singapore. this test applies to those who join the industry from next year but existing [...]

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zurich international life

December 12, 2011 by Patrick Lim
today, david choo, md of promiseland independent and myself accepted the invitation to attend zurich internationl life’s client appreciation evening. zurich international life, part of the zurich financial services group established it’s presence locally in may 2005. the occasion was graced by zurich financial services group ceo, mr martin senn who flew in specially for [...]

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uberrima fides

November 16, 2011 by Patrick Lim
today is my usual scheduled monthly life insurance training open to all of my company’s advisors. and for today, i have chosen to focus on the only 2 products that provides guaranteed protection* even while the child is in the mother’s womb. yes, i’m referring to: a. prudential prufirst gift and b. axa mum’s advantage/mum’s [...]

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manulife is relocating

November 8, 2011 by Patrick Lim
we have just received this email notification from manulife: Dear advisers, MANULIFE SINGAPORE IS SHIFTING ITS OFFICE PREMISES TO A NEW LOCATION We will be closed for the office move on 11 November 2011 (Fri). With effect from 14 November 2011 (Mon), Manulife Singapore Pte Ltd will be operating its business from a new location. [...]

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