At the start of 2013, I selected 20 small cap stocks listed on SGX that I thought would do well, and allocated $10,000. I put them on a stock portfolio tracker to track them. Interestingly, some colleagues thought I really did put money in this portfolio. As you will see later, I wouldn’t have performed too badly. This post serve as an update on the portfolio and whether we can derived some lessons learn. You can review the back commentaries here:

• Introduction to the stocks
• Jan – Killing it in January
• Apr – 17% year to date
• Jun – Outperforming STI and returning 15.9% YTD

You can view the Google Spreadsheet with all the transactions and portfolio summary here.

Overall Result

For $200,000 invested at the start of 2013, the total unrealized gains is $98,272. the total dividends collected is $34,742. The total returns is $133,014 or 66.5%. ......