3 Semiconductor Companies with Juicy Dividends
#2 Valuetronics Holding Limited Valuetronics is an integrated electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, offering a competitive and broad combination of Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing services. Valuetronics is headquartered in Hong Kong and has...
Should We Wait For a Market Pullback?
Just a glance at the price chart of a stock market index will tell you that stocks don’t go up in a straight line. Stocks go up in a zig-zag pattern, making peaks and troughs. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could keep buying at troughs and selling at peaks? We’d all...
Capitalism and Socialism. What are the Societal and Monetary Implications?
TLDR? Extreme Capitalism and Socialism is bad. There is a need to balance the two systems for society to flourish as a whole. Hey everyone, Mr S here. Hope you enjoyed our post last week about how anyone can reach $100k in 5 years or less. I also hope that you’ve...
Syfe – June 2020
Syfe launched Equity100 and you can read more about it here. I don't think I have the time to write a review/blog separately on this but you can take a look at Kyith detailed analysis here. I am not sure if this will perform as well as its historical performance but I...
BHG Retail REIT Analysis @ 7 July 2020
Basic Profile & Key Statistics BHG Retail REIT is a pure retail SREIT with all of its properties located in China. It is currently the 2nd smallest market cap SREITs after Eagle Hospitality Trust. Lease Profile Occupancy of 94.7% is slightly lower than SREITs...
10 Lessons Learnt from Mr Market: Part 2
This is a two part series where I consolidated all my reflection and lessons learnt into two posts. You may refer to the first part over here. This is so that it will be easier for one to refer to and hopefully these lessons learnt so that it will be easier for one...
A Singaporean Guide to Buying US Stocks With the Cheapest Brokerages
Do you wish to invest in US stocks but don’t know how to? Have you been hearing how US stocks can offer higher growth potential than Singapore-listed ones? If you would like to invest in the US market, let us break down the nuances for you in a simple manner…. … in...
Q2 2020 Portfolio Review
With the pandemic still ravaging across many parts of the globe and economic activity still muted, the outlook for the future remains quite uncertain. We know that this uncertainty is compounded by the upcoming US Elections and geopolitical tensions worldwide across a...
Dividend Warrior’s 1H2020 Portfolio Update – Road To A Slow Recovery
Top 10 Positions as of 30 Jun 2020 Warchest Portfolio Cost: S$488, 490 Portfolio Market Value: S$ 606, 435 Portfolio Overall Unrealized Profit: S$117, 945 (+24.1%) Portfolio YTD Returns: -1.75% Dividends Collected (1H2020): S$12, 885 Current...
June 2020 Monthly Expenses Update
At the end of every month, Mrs Budget and I will reconcile our monthly expenses and see what are we spending on, and where we can optimise or cut down our expenses. We subscribe to the believe that every penny saved is a penny earned – sometimes its easier to save...
Ranked: Best Cards to Maximise Cashback/Miles (July 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...
Growth vs Value? A Look At Factor Based Portfolios Offered By Roboadvisors In Singapore.
Value investing dead? A smarter factor investing strategy? A 100% equity smart beta portfolio built using a multi-factor methodology? Somehow, an article by Syfe in my email inbox caught my attention. In my previous article covering Syfe REIT+ portfolio, I had opened...
The Investment Quadrant: The 4-step formula to picking the best stock investments
Here at The Fifth Person, we use a 4-step formula to analyse all our stock investments. We call it The Investment Quadrant. As the name suggests, there are four quadrants to The Investment Quadrant – Business, Management, Financials and Valuation. Before we invest a...
(Post 182/ Yr 3 Wk 39)Learning investing/trading together #27:How to fund your IBKR(Interactive Brokers) account
In this learning investing/trading post, I am going to show how to fund your IBKR(Interactive Brokers) brokerage account. Normally for Singaporean investors, we would just simply do a bank transfer. However, for IBKR, we would have to fund your brokerage by...
How to Buy and Sell Stocks on Interactive Brokers
In the last few articles, we have covered how to open your account with Interactive Brokers, funding your account, and converting to different currencies. Now, you are ready to buy and sell or trade stocks on Interactive Brokers. This includes stocks and options on...
3 Great Investing Lessons From My Favourite Warren Buffett Speech
Warren Buffett is one of my investing heroes. He’s well known for producing incredible long-term returns at Berkshire Hathaway since assuming leadership of the company in 1965. What is less well-known is that he ran his own investment fund from 1957 to 1969 and...
My mid-year investment review
Given my propensity for procrastination, I think we would be more than halfway through the year by the time this post is up😅. Nevertheless, I still want to pen my thoughts and provide an update on how my investments have been doing so far. Doing so allows me to look...
Why SIA might not be the best investment for you
Source: Google Finance The chart above shows SIA’s stock price from 2007 until today. We can observe that the price stays flat when the economy is good but dips when the economy faces a downturn. This is a typical characteristic of a Cyclical growth company[1]....
A Quick Thought On “Expensive” Software Stocks
A few days ago, I was mucking around with historical data on Alphabet, the parent company of the internet search engine of our time, Google. I found some interesting data on this company that led to me writing this short but hopefully thought-provoking article....
With falling interest rates, where should our cash be parked?
With lower interest rates, many are running out of quality options to park their cash Interests rate of High-interest Savings Account (HISA) has served most of us well for the past few years. However, there have been rate cuts since January of 2020, led by DBS in...
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