The day I dumped all my Airline stocks
2 days ago, I dumped 2 prominent Asian airline stocks — Singapore Airlines (C6L) on SGX and Cathay Pacific Airways (293) on HKEX. It is a late move on my part due to expectations of possible recovery towards the end of the year. However with the onset of second wave...
Woodleigh Residences Offering Up Till S$250K Worth Of Discount- Property Prices Finally Going Down?
I received a promotional email yesterday (5th August 2020) on upcoming weekend sales discount of up till S$250K for a unit at Woodleigh Residences. Is property price finally softening? This COVID-19 recession sure is different from the 2008 Global financial Crisis...
Webinar: Investing in Singaporean companies (Home-bias): What is the right strategy?
Making your first investment in the Singapore stock market is an intuitive choice - given that several of the listed companies are household names that we interact with on a daily basis. Given the lacklustre performance of the local stock market relative to other...
JuL 2020- Monthly Finance/Portfolio update -Dividend/Interest received $4.4K
It's time for another monthly update. Nothing exciting for the month of July and my monthly passive income collected from my investment portfolio is around $4.4k . Compare to 2019 July, the dividend /interest collected from my stock/bond portfolio is down by around...
Gold Broke $2,000, Bitcoin Passed $11,000, NASDAQ and Bonds At All-Time Highs – What Can Go Wrong?
Investing in 2020 looks easy in hindsight – almost everything is up and smashing the records. Gold Gold has reached its highest price in history, breaking the US$2,000/oz barrier. Many reasoned that it was due to the massive liquidity pumped into the markets by the...
Gold Price Surging: Is It Too Late to Buy Gold Now?
The flocking to gold investments such as SPDR Gold shares is warranted. We are facing an extremely challenging world. There is no end in sight to the global coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, the tensions between the US and China are increasing. Therefore, investors...
Ranked: Best Cards to Maximise Cashback/Miles (August 2020)
The logic of the tiers are simple: if you are a cashback person, you’d obviously put all your spending on Tier 1 cards, followed by Tier 2 when your Tier 1 cards are fully maximised. A miles person would focus on the Miles column, and someone who is Team Value like me...
Best Endowment Plans In August 2020
Are you looking for the best Endowment Plans in August 2020 to earn a higher interest rate than fixed deposits? Endowment plans are life insurance saving plans that are offered by insurance companies. The aim is to help policyholders save towards specific financial...
How Much Does A Property’s Age Affect Its Rental Income And Yield?
One of the reasons to buy an older property is supposedly good rental yield. As the theory goes, tenants will still pay around the same rental rate (they don’t care about the remaining lease), while the cost of the property is lower. However, what’s seldom explained...
Secure a Worry-Free Retirement Through Dividend Investing
Sadly, news headlines have been carrying harrowing titles relating to salary cuts and retrenchments. During such tough times, it’s natural to worry about whether you can ever enjoy a stress-free retirement. With the cost of goods rising every year and a...
Can we make money by buying companies that don’t?
What am I talking about? Sounds absurd right? Well, not to many traders who trade based on investors. There are many firms which are deemed to have “growth potential” and thus should have a huge upside and many people want to jump onto the bandwagon so that they will...
Running Retirement Like a Business
I was thinking... Retirement planning is kinda like running a business. First you start the planning and thinking about it. Do the calculation, market research, ask around for more info, etc... Some people don't plan and just chiong... go in blindly... Sometimes, the...
When You Know You Are In Love…
When do you realise you were in love with a company: when the analysis you did was full of risks and you said its seem fine, when the competitor share price beats 52 week high and your company is flat maintaining 52 weeks low, and you said fine,when you...
5 things I learned from the 2020 7-Eleven Malaysia AGM
7-Eleven Malaysia Holdings Berhad operates and franchises 7-Eleven convenience stores in Malaysia that are open 24/7. The company was incorporated in 1984 and listed in 2014. It offers a wide range of products and services to customers such as grocery and fresh food...
Keppel Corp Is Always Seen As Smelly And Oily Stock By Some Investment Writers. Why leh???
Lim Chee Onn, Executive Chairman, Keppel Corporation Ltd, Singapore, 2000 to 2008 Mr Lim graduated with First Class Honours in Naval Architecture from Glasgow University A naval architect specializes in every facet of maritime activities such as dredging, shipment and...
Singapore Airlines Limited: Is There a Faint Glimmer of Light for the Airline?
There is no way around it. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the airline industry to its knees. All over the world, airline companies are reeling from the adverse impact arising from border closures and lockdowns. Singapore Airlines Limited (SGX: C6L), or SIA, is no...
3 Little-Known Companies With Significant Share Buyback
There was a revival in stock prices since the global collapse in prices during March. However, the recovery in stock prices were not even. Some industries such as Technology recovered faster than other traditional sectors such as engineering. As a result, some...
Millionaire Investing Strategy For Beginners
I have made tons of mistakes in investing before I finally found a strategy that works. I have used that same strategy to build a million-dollar portfolio over the last decade. Here is how I did it.
Portfolio Review August 2020
Please click and read this disclaimer if you wish to continue with the contents below. Bench marking myself against STI, HKSE and World Index: For last month's portfolio review click here Year to date: STI Index: -19.39% HK Index: -6.89% World Index: +1.85% My...
Why You Should Be Accumulating Hospitality Stocks Now Rather Than Later
Hospitality stocks such as CDL Hospitality Reit has been heavily ravaged throughout the entire period of the pandemic. The unprecedented impact on the global economy due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to an initial global close down and the few weeks of a circuit...
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