Retirement Sum Scheme (RSS) vs CPF Life
We have deferred my mom's CPF payout since she was 65 years old so that we can milk more interest from the government. The latest we can defer her payout is up to 70 years old. My Mom is reaching 70 soon and we will need to decide if we want to opt her into CPF Life...
REIT Posts of the Week @ 23 January 2021
If you notice any missing REIT posts and would like me to add them in, please let me know. Alternatively, you could join REIT Investing Community for more updated sharing. SREITs 1) Are The Distributions From Manulife US REIT (MUST)...
Why Square has potential 100% upside (in the long term)
Square stock had a strong run up in 2020 with year to date returns of 247.84%, and currently it is trading at a price to sales ratio of 14, and price to earnings ratio of 310. Such nose bleed valuations implies that high growth expectations has been baked into the...
“Confucius is a bastard !” – How to fight off Singapore’s Cultural Involution
I was brainstorming one of the worst titles an author could come up with for a philosophical piece of work with a friend and we settled on something that can piss off a significant part of the ethnic Chinese population. The working title he came out with was...
STI Outlook – As of 23rd January 2021
STI likely hover around 3000 for the time being Biden’s administration main focus are on fighting the pandemic, restoring balance to society and environment. This probably will have more or less little impact on STI in the immediate future. However,...
SPH REIT 1QFY2021 Updates
SPH REIT has provided their key business and operational updates for 1QFY2021 on 13th January 2021. Gross revenue was S$66.6 million which is an increase of 10.8% year-on-year, largely attributed to Westfield Marion’s contribution of S$12.8 million. The Gross...
A New US President, What’s Next?
Global equity markets are mostly higher this week after investors gave the Biden administration a warm welcome by bidding the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to new heights. Tech stocks led the charge, with old favorites like Netflix and Amazon posting gains. Intel also...
Best Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas Based on the 5 Love Languages Under $40/Pax
In three weeks time, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day (14 Feb 2021): an occasion where couples all over the world would typically exchange chocolate, flowers and gifts to express their love for each other. But, I can imagine this day can get quite...
StashAway – December 2020
The performance of StashAway's portfolios have been very impressive with double digits time-weighted return and XIRR (refer to below). If you compare it to one year ago (StashAway - January 2020) where all our portfolios were losing money, it has rebounded very...
Weekly Market Recap | 24 January 2021
Week Ahead US Consumer Confidence (Jan)FOMC MeetingGerman Q4 GDP Thought Of The Week Biden’s Inauguration; Return to Normality After weeks of a tumultuous transition, Joe Biden was finally sworn in as the 46th President of United States on Wednesday. His...
How well have REITs actually performed?
REITs have become increasing popular with investors looking to generate streams of passive income. But how have they actually performed? In this free video, I breakdown the long-term returns for REITs over 3, 5 & 10 years & Year to Date performance....
Is it too late to buy tech stocks?
A couple of you have reached out with FOMO over tech stocks. Tech stocks have gone on an unbelievable rally since the March 2020 lows, and many of you are wondering if it is too late to be buying tech. We touched in this briefly in the mid-week article on whether...
Has Razer Found a New Way to Reach Profitability?
If you thought a computer mouse was just a moulded-plastic handheld pointing device connected to a computer to move a cursor around a visual display unit, then you probably aren’t an ardent fan of computer games. Serious gamers take the choosing of their gaming mouse,...
Stock picking criteria
Choosing winners is hard. So I came up with a stock picking checklist based on my past mistakes to see if I can improve my stock picking skills. My strategy involves picking two categories of stocks: “Compounders” and “Deep value”. “Compounders” are stocks which can...
3 Great Reasons Why You Should Include Asia in Your Portfolio
There’s been a lot of talk on growth investing over the past year. Although the pandemic is still raging around the world, investors have been rushing towards big names that have performed well despite the downturn. The large technology stocks such...
Satellite Portfolio Updates
Satellite Portfolio Allocation Holdings SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF, JNK iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF, PFF Vanguard Health Care ETF, VHT Invesco QQQ Trust, QQQ iShares China Large-Cap ETF, FXI This week STI is still struggling to hold above...
My key points from the books I read in 2020 in less than 52 words each
Do you remember the last idea that you took from a book? Back in 2019, I set myself the goal to read a book per week and then read 52 books. For 2020 I told myself that quality trumps quantity and did not set myself a specific goal. Still, I ended up with quite a...
My Podcast Episode with The Financial Coconut
Last week, Reggie from The Financial Coconut did a podcast episode with my boss. If you listened till the end, Reggie updated what his next episode will be about. If you are interested in my conversation with Reggie, you can listen to it here: Or listen in Spotify...
What do we cover in Bulletproof REITs Masterclass?
There are 43 REITs listed in Singapore and it can be confusing trying to construct your own portfolio. Many REITs have similar ratios and dividend yields and it can be hard to tell good REITs apart from bad REITs. That’s where the Bulletproof REITs Masterclass comes...
Cory Diary : Trading Records 2021-0122
A little motivated with my new Notebook and keeps looking to squeeze out time to play with in-between chores. One of my favorite app is Chrome Browser and for some reason my tradingview chart aren't showing the numeric values. After figuring out for some time decided...
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