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% …

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Dividend Yield 4.6%

All in all, my portfolio has produced a yield of ~ 4.6% this year - a shade that lower my long term target of 5.0% but slightly better than my target of 4.5% set for this year.

Wk20: Ahead of Schedule – Overseas Holding hits 28%

As the saying goes, change is the only constant. In the early part of this year, SG market has been outperforming the rest. But from my last blog to today, SG market is the worst performer among the 3 markets that I track closely. STI lost 4%, HK Hang Seng lost 3.5% and S&P was …

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 …

2021 Target: Increase net worth by 5%

Trained by years of corporate life, making personal Tasks and Targets (T&T) for the year has become an annual affair. For my investment journey this year, I have set the following T&T for 2021: 1. Increase my net worth by 5% is the key overriding one. After failing to deliver on this target last year, …

Net Worth, Yield and Diversification – Gain and Losses

I started this year with the ambitions to achieve the following: Increase Net WorthMaintain Passive Income YieldReduce DebtImprove Diversification of PortfolioReduce Trading and Focus on InvestMore Self Learning and ImprovementDo More ExerciseReduce Weight Reflecting on what I have done and achieved this year, I realised the results was a mixed bag - I succeeded on …

My 2020 Game Plan

Looking at my previous blog on this same topic, I wrote “My game plan for 2019 is to continue to grow my index portfolio, collect dividends and maintain a 5% yield portfolio, subscribe SSB to the new max and increase average views per month in my blog further.” This year is no different except for …

Gain some and Pain some – Eagle, Dairy Farm, Noble and Hyflux

With one and half trading days to go, and most people either in holiday mood or in "sian" mood (with the thoughts of going back to work), I think its time to wrap up my investment efforts for the year. From the macro angle, 2019 has been a fine investment year for global markets in …

IREIT attracts me

IREIT is currently #20 in terms of holding in my portfolio. After doing some simple analysis yesterday, I have decided to add more IREIT units in the coming days. A simple intro and highlights of IREIT can be found at the end of this blog. IREIT attracts me because: (1) It has a track record …

Busy busy 3 weeks :-)

I got feedback from some of you that my last post was too serious and heavy going. Once in a while lah ... especially whenever I reflect on our country's competitiveness, I get concerned. Anyway this blog is back to our personal finance and life. So the last 3 weeks for me ....  has been …