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 …

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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 …

Mid Year Review (2) – Reducing Exposure to China / Hong Kong Stocks

I used to aim for 50% US and 50% China / Hong Kong for my overseas equities exposure. However, since the beginning of this year, I have started to pare down my Hong Kong stocks as I lost my confidence in the Hong Kong and China economies. China is still sticking to its Zero Covid …

Mid Year Review (1) – Upping Quality of US Portfolio for Better Sleep

I took some time this morning to review my investment portfolio. I have been deferring this activity because I dreaded to see the sea of red in my US stocks and to calculate my absolute losses. I know my loss is significant. S&P500 is down 10% year to date. But it could have been worst …

Awful Sep but good days ahead likely in Oct, Nov, Dec and Jan

Sep has been an awful month. Major stock markets around the world declined significantly. Even the US markets which have been on a phenomenal and relentless upward climb also crumbled. S&P dropped almost 5% in Sep alone. In the other two markets that I am vested in - HK and SG, they were no exceptions. …

Surprise! STI is the Best Performer

Surprise! Surprise! Over the last two quarters, STI was the best performer compared to Hang Seng Index and even S&P500! It gained 28% over the last two quarters with 2/3 of that gain made in the Oct-Dec 2020 quarter. In comparison, Hang Seng gained 22% and S&P 500 18%. Wow, nice job STI! Like the …

Top10 Dividends and Top10 Holding @ Q1 2021

TOP-10 Dividend Contributors at Q1 2021 Below is a table that shows the Top-10 dividend contributors to me at Q1 2021. To be more factual, the ranking is based on dividend declared and not dividend paid. I have also included the Top-10 at this same point last year and the year before (only managed to …

Its Dividend time again … Yipee!

The curtain on the Trump-Xi show was rung down on Saturday but there was no drama or firework. Even our usual polite PM didn't mince his words when he said that he was worried. It tells us how bad the collaboration was among the biggest and richest nations in the world. But with that distracting …