Many of you are aware that my long term target yield for my portfolio is 5%. I believe it is a sustainable yield and it has been a target that I have been working on for sometime for my passive income post retirement. Just to put some numbers in ... assuming my family need $80k … Continue reading Focus on Reits Yielding 5%
Category: Reits
SPH Reit Yield is Back
SPH Reit released their full year results yesterday and its DPU performance is BACK ! It announced a DPU of 1.58 cents for their last quarter before closing their book. This is a 14% increase from the DPU from the previous quarter. Their full year DPU also raised 98% year-on-year to 5.8 cents. This translates … Continue reading SPH Reit Yield is Back
Wk 9 : Buy some more on weakness
The title speaks for itself. Week 9 was an interesting one. While we see the usual pattern that the Singapore STI took an opposite path to HK Hang Seng Index and US S&P500 and Nasdaq again, for a change, the STI went up 2% while the rest went down (HK was down 6%, Nasdaq down … Continue reading Wk 9 : Buy some more on weakness
Wk-8: Swing to Buy
Fast, its week 8 already. After weeks of selling, I started to open up my war chest and buy in the last fortnight. Most of my purchases were in Singapore and USA shares. Of the three markets that I pay most attention, Singapore continued to underperform against USA and Hong Kong in the last fortnight. … Continue reading Wk-8: Swing to Buy
Wk5: Manulife Reit stole the limelight
S&P 500 rose 2.5% to break its closing record this week. Hang Seng index rose 3.0% too. So, I had been a net seller of my US and HK stocks this week. Despite that, the combined holding of US and HK stocks is still about 23% of my equity portfolio. The reason was that the … Continue reading Wk5: Manulife Reit stole the limelight
4.7% Dividend Yield on Equity Portfolio
4.7% dividend yield is the final outcome after all the hardwork this year. Total dividend received in 2020 was 85% of 2019 amount - which is expected given this COVID year. This is actually better than the 4.5% yield that I was expecting back in July when I wrote about it. This outcome was helped … Continue reading 4.7% Dividend Yield on Equity Portfolio
Why Ireit?
In my last post, I mentioned that I bought Ireit and UOL on Monday. Some asked why Ireit ... I have Ireit on my portfolio for years already. Hence, my purpose for buying it was to accumulate and my entry point was around 70 cents. It would help me to average down my cost. Bulk … Continue reading Why Ireit?
Queen Mary (EHT)
It has been almost a month since my last post. There was no new inspiration that came to me to want to pen something down in the last few weeks. However, its a different story on the trading front. Reflecting on my trading activities for the last few weeks, I realise that I did quite … Continue reading Queen Mary (EHT)
My Star Dividend Contributors Revealed
Following my post yesterday, some of you had inquired about my dividends. Sorry I am not comfortable to reveal the amount but I am happy to share my STAR dividend contributors in Q3 and also Year-To-Date. To Recap, my dividend yield year to date is 4.5% on cash investment. It is spread out relatively well … Continue reading My Star Dividend Contributors Revealed
4.5% Yield Year-To-Date, helped by Leverage
The last company on my watchlist reported its quarterly results and dividend declaration on 14-Aug. Along with that, I was able to establish that my dividend yield on cash investment (up to today) is 4.5%. I do not see an issue meeting my 5.0% target by end of the year. My dividend yield received a … Continue reading 4.5% Yield Year-To-Date, helped by Leverage