July’17 SG Saving Bond Closing: A Friendly Reminder

A few more days to apply for Singapore Saving Bond. Time to act if you have not. This post is because I believe SSB is the best place to “park” your war chest – safe and sound 😊 Details of This month’s Offer Issue: GX17070V Closes: 9.00pm, 27 June 2017 Results: After 3.00pm, 28 June 2017 Year …

My 5 Biggest Stock Exposures by Value – Q2’17 Update

In mid March this year, the following companies were my five biggest exposures by value. Their respective weightage in my portfolio is also given below: As @ 18/3/2017 Soilbuild Reit 5.2% Ascendas Reit 4.2% Ascott Reits 4.0% Frasers Com Trust 3.6% SPH Reit 3.5% I believe the first thing that strikes you from this table …

My Index Fund Portfolio – 2Q17 Update

I just reviewed my index fund portfolio this morning and thought of sharing it with you. If you may remember I posted an article in March when I first set up the index fund portfolio. See link. I am glad to mention that since then, I have made good progress in shaping it closer towards the …

Five Favourite Recent Reads

This is just to share a few of my favourite reads recently in case you miss them and they may be useful for you on your investment journey. 1.Singapore—A Market Not To Be Underestimated Part 1 Singapore—A Market Not To Be Underestimated Part 2 " ... In explaining our continued positivity towards the Singapore equity …

Watching these few Small Caps

A colleague asked me recently if I invest in local small caps since I have been blogging about SReits, Oil, Bonds, ETF but not the small caps. Well, I do actually. It is just that I got burnt so badly by small caps and red chips in my earlier years of investing that I now …

SReits – Time to take some profit

All the SReits had already released their quarterly results. Below is a table that shows the Q2 Yield, Q1 Yield and the Delta between the two yields (Q2-Q1) of selected SReits and Business Trusts listed on our local stock exchange. For clarity, in this post, I defined yield as the sum of the last 4 …