Author: B

When investors like us invest in the stock market, the goal is always trying to grow our wealth over time.  Investors are generally thrilled by the prospect of growth in general, whether they are referring to their income, savings or even the companies that they invest in.  We just love things going in the “up”…

I was having a short holiday trip with my family to KL in the past week so I did not particularly overlook the market too much other than quickly checking for news at night when my children has fallen asleep. At times, I felt a bit guilty for ignoring my portfolio a little while I…

To say that this has been a tough year for investment is an understatement. Investing, as a general form of growing your wealth is so damn tough that for one not to be losing money is sometimes already seen as a form of success. I can totally relate why many people avoided them like a…

This is a recent strategy which I am experimenting on my CFD account which I will be explaining more in detail when I have the time to blog the full implementation on it. I recently opened a short position in UMS Holdings at the price of $0.66 for 50,000 shares. This was somewhat a different…

I am writing this dividend update quarterly in an attempt to compile my quarterly dividend performance for the year.  With a rising cost of living under the belt, in particular with the two kids in tow and hence require some bits of maintenance spend to keep hold, it can be particularly stressful to keep up…

Following my experiment using CFD account to purchase shares which I blogged here a few months ago, I have finally received my first dividend payout credited to my account. Although rather straightforward, but they operate somewhat a little differently from holding a normal ordinary shares account hence I wanted to document this for future users. For those…

Ho Bee Land Limited is a property developer and investing company which has developments in various parts of Australia, China and United Kingdom.  The company has recently announced their Q3 FY18 results which brings about some of the key highlights:  1.) Rental Income has once again grown both year on year (up 28.3%) and quarter…

First of all, apologies for the lack of posting as I just came back from my trip from Taiwan which my friends and I did our main objective of the trip which is to cycle.  During our time there, we also witness a nice fireworks display and we also walked around a few of the…

Every two to three years, we seemed to have a variety of the Great Singapore Sale in the stock market that are back and enticing investor’s appetite to invest into the market. With the STI index now down close to 20% from the recent peak, it appears to have given the cash investors another test…

Following my last week’s article on some of the savings strategies I used for buying groceries, I’ll be sharing another of our favorite savings tips when it comes to buying some of our furnitures & fittings and lifestyle products. About a year ago, my wife chanced upon a website called IUIGA, an online platform portal that…