Manulife Reit – Strong Performance To End The Year
Manulife Reit published their Q4 FY18 results this morning which saw them registered an impressive 55.4% increase year on year on the Net Property Income (NPI) due to their 2018 recent acquisitions of the two buildings - Penn in Washington DC and Phipps in Atlanta)....
Last Minute Restaurants Available For Valentine’s Day
With Valentine’s Day literally just around the corner, one would hope to have made their dinner reservations by now! As with any ultra popular festive day, reservations spots are usually snagged up weeks or even months ahead. BUT, there’s no need to start...
An Aesthetically-pleasing Expense Tracker? SIGN ME UP! – Guide to Seedly Expense Tracker and FAQ
How do YOU keep track of your finances? Some do it by drawing up an excel spreadsheet, while others, well, take a more guerilla Khong-Guan-biscuit-tin approach (if you know, you know). Risk free, and interest-free! Left Image Credit: irememberSG It’s about...
Savings Account for NSF – POSB Save As You Serve
National Service is compulsory for all Singaporeans male. I myself is enlisting to serve the nation this year too. Before I go into today’s post, this post is not sponsored by POSB. The reason I wrote this post because I came across this savings account while...
Singapore Budget 2019: Where Can Singaporeans Catch The Budget Statement?
The 2019 Budget Statement will be delivered on Monday, 18 February 2019, 3.30pm. Why is the Singapore Budget so important to Singaporeans? The Singapore Budget is prepared for Singapore each financial year. The Singapore Budget covers topics such as: Revised...
Experience in Owning a Private Property
Hi Everyone! In today's blog I will be talking about my personal experience in Owning a Private property Owning a property in Singapore is expensive but it is necessary be it a HDB or private property because you will need a home to stay in. So come at times you will...
What I Did Over The Last 19 Years Across Market Cycles And How I Am Preparing For The Next Market Crash
Normalizing these parameters to common denominator of 100% for STI, war chest, cash-flow, stock value and portfolio value (including cash not invested). This can help him to visualize these parameters relatively. No free lunch. It is about trade off and opportunities....
5 Money Saving Ways This Valentine’s Day
It's here! The week where Romance and Love is highest in the air. So are the prices of all things lovely, from flowers to chocolates, dinner to staycations and anything that ends with love in it. If only there is a way not to put our wallets on the chopping board this...
10 things to know about Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust before you invest (updated 2019)
Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust (FLT) listed on the SGX on 20 June 2016. It was initially established to invest in logistics and industrial properties located in Australia. However, in early 2018, FLT expanded its investment mandate to include properties in...
Taking Stock of Where REITs are Currently
click to view larger image I thought its good to do a quick recap to see where we are currently when it comes to the REITs scene. Last year, there the main narrative was the rising interest rate making REITs less attractive as an investment to be in. What we...
5 Things You Need To Know About Chin Well Holdings Bhd Before You Invest
Founded in 1989, Chin Well Holdings Bhd (Chin Well) is now among the world’s largest manufacturers of high-quality carbon steel fasteners. Presently, as at 22 December 2018, Chin Well is worth RM 470.2 million in market capitalization, a 57.8% increase from RM 291.6...
How your career is like investing in the stock market
(Source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-a-culture-of-growth-joel-mokyr-princeton-university-press) Your career actually shares so much similarities to investing in the stock market. It is after all, also an investment - one where you trade in your...
Singtel Power Fixed Price Plans
This is probably old news. I only found out today that Singtel and Geneco has announced a partnership on 10th January 2019 to offer Geneco electricity plans. Singtel will be reselling these plans through Singtel Power. Since the electricity re-seller scheme has not...
Insights and observations from Dr. Wealth Graduates Session.
Yesterday I gave a talk to 200+ graduates of Dr Wealth programs and it was really fun !I have a different approach towards conducting investment training, very much preferring to learn from my students as my students learn from me. As such, this blog readers can...
Take A.I.M. – Let’s Hit Bullseye Together!
How do you feel after attending a course/workshop? Do you follow what was taught? Do you gain anything from the course? Did you take any action after the course?These are the questions I kept asking myself after presenting various workshops and courses...
Travelling right after graduating
My exams ended on Oct 2018. Many of my friends started travelling after that and many travelled to a few countries at once.Some went to Europe and also to more expensive countries rather than like Thailand or neighbouring countries that are more affordable.I think it...
My thought process in selecting my Masters programme
I’m well into my 6th year in my career and unbeknownst to readers, I’ve been thinking of going back to school to upgrade and specialise my skill set over the past year. The whole thought experiment culminated recently when I accepted a place in a part-time Masters of...
Cory Diary : Computing Portfolio Size
To get portfolio size, the straight forward answer is to do a value tally and over time we will have a trend. What-if we don't track them closely and have fund injection that constitutes 50% of the fund increase or we do a reverse. Now you see what I am getting ?One...
Investing, Uncertainty and Luck: Areas of Control
February 10, 2019BenThis is a two part series on uncertainty and luck in the stock market. Stay tuned for part two! It goes without saying that investing comes with a certain degree of uncertainty. No one can predict where the market is going. Even with the safest...
My Top10 & Who Own Them Too
(Disclaimer: This is not an advertisement for StockCafe) I found another interesting feature on StockCafe yesterday while reviewing the performance of my portfolios. I can see how many fellow StockCafe subscribers actually own the same stock as me. Although it...
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