Closing this quarter dividends tracking

After OCBC announced its results and the 42 cents dividends on Wednesday, it also concluded my dividend tracking process for this quarter. The year to date yield for my overall equity portfolio including SG, HK and US stocks comes to 1.5%. Generally, the local banks did well and raised their dividends. DBS was most impressive. …

Why Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust (FLCT) ?

After my last post, I received a few queries on my rationale for accumulating a lot of FLCT shares lately. To recap, I wrote that ... "Number 1 is FLCT. In the last few weeks, I added a lot of FLCT shares as it fell quite drastically. I think the selling was overdone and therefore, …

Top 10 Dividends Contributors 2023

All my major contributors to my passive income had already reported their results and declared their last dividends for 2023. This post serves to list down the Top 10 dividend contributors and Top 10 holdings of my equities portfolio. Ranking Top 10 Dividends Contributors areComments1Prime US Reit Hands down, the Most Heartache Award for the …

Dividends Contributors – Top 10

All the companies in my equity portfolio have released their latest results and declared their dividends. As of today, the dividends that I would receive amount to 2.0%. Proportionally, this is greater than 25% of my target yield of 4.5%. This is because it includes some dividends declared but only ex-div in Q2. Nonetheless, I …

What a roller coaster ride with Tesla

I started a position with Tesla in late October last year. For a good two months before that, Tesla share price was hovering steadily at around US$300 per share. Then it dived suddenly in early October before regaining some support at around US$225. That's when I entered to buy some Tesla shares and hoping for …

Huat Huat January, please continue

Baring any major disruption to the stock markets early next week, January 2023 should be a good month for all of us, the stock investors For homeland loyalist, STI is up 4.4% since the start of the year. And for local S-Reit lovers, Lion-Phillip S-Reit ETF outperforms to climb 7.9%. Those who are brave enough …

Targets for This Year

Thought of doing a short post to record my target in my journey towards financial independence for this year. (Study has shown that by writing down your targets, you have a higher chance of achieving them) My targets are: Dividends To achieve 4.5% dividend yield on my equity portfolio (achieved last year) To achieve 2.5% …

Mid Year Review (5) – Tracking Well, 3.54% Dividend Yield YTD

I measured the success of investment by the dividends that I get. I am an income investor. My investment aim is to build a portfolio that would provide me with adequate passive income when I retire. As the title suggests, the dividend yield of my equity portfolio as at 12 Aug is 3.5%. The last …

Mid Year Review (4) – Growing my Index Portfolio Steadily

Followers of my blog would know that besides my equity portfolio, I have an index portfolio that I mentioned periodically. Started in 2017, it has since quadrupled in size. Different from my equity portfolio, my index fund portfolio is made up fully of ETFs. Furthermore, it goes beyond just equity ETFs to include Bond, Gold …

Mid Year Review (3) – SG saves the day

The returns of my US and HK stocks have been disappointing - see previous posts. My SG stocks are holding up much better. In fact, STI index is up 4% year to date. Like its US counterparts, it hit the lowest point in mid June this year but has since recovered strongly. Photo by Maxim …