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Your Investment Adviser Can Make You Rich?! Think Again

April 16, 2011 by Tiang Chuan
Contrary to the popular image investment intermediaries try to project, they can only keep you rich, not make you rich! Read the article – Your Investment Adviser Can Make You Rich?! Thank Again to learn more! Related posts: Going crazy over investment losses Don’t Miss The Big Picture Sounds To Good To Be True? It [...]

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Sabana Shari’ah Compliant REIT

November 12, 2010 by La Papillion
There’s more IPO coming up and more REIT type of IPO, right after the launch of the mega one by MIT. Unfortunately, though I bidded for that in the offer period, I didn’t get a single lot at all. Let’s hope this one – Sabana Shari’ah Compliant REIT works out well for me. This is [...]
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The “WANTS” of Investing

November 11, 2010 by Adrian Khiat
Prior constructing an investment portfolio for my clients, I will normally access the “WANTS” for them. This “WANTS”, not only implies what they wants in their life, it is actually my Acronym for their “Willingnesss”, “Ability”, “Needs”, “Time Horizon” and “Suitability” Only after determining the WANTS, will I be able to ensure what I recommend will be suitable for them [...]

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First REIT Announces Acquisition and Rights Issue

November 10, 2010 by Drizzt
First REIT announces the acquisition of 2 properties: Mochtar Riady Comprehensive Cancer Centre (MRCCC) – SGD 170 mil Siloam Hospitals Lippo Cikarang (SHLC) – SGD 35 mil This will be funded by issuing 345 mil shares for a gross proceed of SGD 172 mil and long term debt financing for SGD 50 mil Rights Issue [...]
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Personal Growth and Financial Freedom

November 9, 2010 by Panzer
Have you ever felt that you were going through the same routine over and over and over again in life? Has it ever occurred to you that your life could be on auto-pilot as you engage in the get-up-go-to-work-go-home schedule? Have you ever paused to think about what is this whole purpose of getting ahead, [...]
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Jaya Holdings Ltd reports Q1-2011 net profit of S$31.28mn on revenue of S$78.2mn….no major surprises……remains one of preferred marine plays

November 8, 2010 by Kevin Scully
Jaya Holdings, one of my Stock Picks reported its Q1-2011 results.  Revenue rose 94% to S$78.2mn while net profit was down slightly by 4% to S$31.3mn.   EPS was 4.1 cents compare to 4.2 cents in Q1-2010.  NAV per share isS$0.66 compared to S$0.62. Key highlights in the results: Shipping Revenue from the offshore shipping division [...]
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Maturing as an Investor

November 6, 2010 by Musicwhiz
As the months go by, our experience as a human being continues to build up; whether it be with work, relationships or, investing! Every now and then, I will take a step back and reflect on what I had learnt in the past few months as a result of either reading, observation, thinking or analysis. [...]

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China Mobile a potential international dividend aristocrat? $CHL $VOD

November 4, 2010 by Drizzt
I got to know about China Mobile as a dividend stock while research some of the top international telecom dividend companies in the world. China Mobile was an asia representative and what caught my attention is that it mirrors that of Vodafone. Singapore investors would be glad to know that you can easily trade or [...]
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How waiting for a good price resulted in me missing out on great company in Thomson Medical

November 1, 2010 by Drizzt
Yesterday I came back home to received a news that Peter Lim, after failing to secure Liverpool decided to buy a hospital – Thomson Medical He made the general offer worth $513 million after his private firm Sasteria bought a 39.34 per cent stake in the company from its founder and largest shareholder, Dr Cheng [...]
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Ezra – Review and Analysis of FY 2010 Financials and Comments on Proposed Acquisitions

October 29, 2010 by Musicwhiz
Ezra released their FY 2010 financials on October 22, 2010; and at the same time, there was also an announcement on the acquisition of two companies for a combined US$325 million (US$250 million + US$75 million). The details can be read up on SGXNet, so I will NOT be posting the salient aspects of the [...]
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SGX’s takeover offer of ASX……watchout for mispricing opportunities as sentiment and rhetoric affect the share prices

October 28, 2010 by Kevin Scully
I have not Blogged on this transaction although you may have read or seen quotations from me from the media. Details of the SGX takeover of ASX can be found here…..a summary of the key terms are as follows: a) SGX is offering to acquire all the shares of ASX for A$22.00 in cash and [...]
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From Free Cash Flow to Willingness to Pay Shareholders

October 27, 2010 by 8percentpa
A while back, I wrote this post about stocks that have good record of free cash flow and naturally they also gave a lot of dividends. I thought I would just delve a bit deeper into how free cash flow affects dividend while also looking at 1 or 2 other factors. Basically, to determine whether [...]

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3 minutes investment update – 10/2010

October 26, 2010 by Adrian Khiat
First Minute – Lets look at the indices 1. Emerging Markets and Asia-ex-Japan index rose about 11% for the month alone. The Kopsi did well with 11.3% rise. 2. Year to date, Asia-ex-Japan and Emerging markets did well with an increase of 11.3% and 9.8% respectively. 3.Gold is the best performer of the year so [...]
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September 2010 Portfolio Summary and Review

October 4, 2010 by Musicwhiz
As expected, September 2010 was a very quiet month with hardly any corporate announcements from the companies in my portfolio. This was to be expected as September has traditionally been a very quiet month, and I have confidence that the businesses I own are slowly but surely building up their competencies and capabilities to tackle [...]

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Sun Tzu – War On Business Part 13 (Palate Palette)

October 2, 2010 by Musicwhiz
We have come to Episode 13, which is the final episode of the Sun Tzu series, and it’s one which brings us to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; a country which has not been covered so far in this series. Here, James Sun meets up with a lady called Sun-Ann Wong (“Su-Ann”) who runs a café cum [...]

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Your Own Business Intelligence Dashboard for Personal Finance

September 29, 2010 by Panzer
I attended a seminar organised by a vendor of business intelligence application software recently and that presentation jogged me to write about developing our own dashboards for personal finance. Some of you might be wondering, “Business Intelligence? Dashboards? What do these things have to do with me?” The terms may seem fancy, and they often [...]
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Are you a Macro or Micro investor?Are you a Macro or Micro investor?

September 28, 2010 by Alvin
When people speak about macro and micro, does economics come to mind? I do. Macroeconomics, as Investopedia explains, “focuses on the national economy as a whole and provides a basic knowledge of how things work in the business world.” While “microeconomics looks at the smaller picture and focuses more on basic theories of supply and [...]

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What constitute an investment?

September 27, 2010 by 8percentpa
The way I see it, an investment has to be something that can generate cashflow. Stocks give dividends, bonds give interest and real estate gives rental income. These are real investments. However in the strange World of Wall Street Craft, anything and everything becomes a feasible investment, an asset class of its own. The recent [...]

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