Author: B

It is part of human tendency to shy away from the reality when it strikes and we are often left to provide excuses to justify and defend ourselves. To a large extent, people feels uncomfortable when they start thinking about personal finance. It is almost that feeling of resigning to fate because the world places…

Every now and then I tried to force myself to do a bit of homework in updating my spreadsheet for some companies that are in my watchlist.  This article is about consolidating the strength of the company through looking into the lenses of the health of the balance sheet. I am only covering ground on…

Most of you readers know that I love Reits investing because it fits my profile of having a sustainable stream of dividend income that pays every quarterly or semi-annually. This is align with my aspirations of being able to use the rest of my time to do what I wanted to really do. As a…

For a long time, I’ve considered Gold as a monetary goods that are driven by demand and supply more than an investment itself. It has a very long track of history itself and it was first used as a barter trade in 700 B.C. A friend that I was close with has recently notified me…

As investors, we always tend to worry about what might go wrong in our portfolio regardless of how much efforts of research we’ve taken.  There’s always this navigation on how things might not perform up to our expectations because of the underlying differences between our risk appetite and risk tolerance that we can take from…

HRnetGroup Limited balloting results is out. Placement of 85,682,000 shares is approximately 13.17 times subscribed due to strong demand from international and local institutional investors. Public offer of 3,359,200 shares is approximately 68.34 times subscribed by retail investors. Chances are actually pretty evenly big if you are one of them who apply to the shares….

HRnetGroup Limited is going public by offering 89.4m shares which made up of 85.6m shares under placement and 3.8m shares under the public offer. The IPO will close on the 14th Jun at 12pm with a market cap of approximately $900m, which makes it one of the top IPO for this year in the SGX…

No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. CDL Hospitality Trust 60,000 1.61 96,600.00 16.0% 2. Fraser Logistic Trust 80,000 1.05 84,000.00 14.0% 3. M1 35,000 2.25 78,750.00 13.0% 4. Comfortdelgro 30,000 2.42 72,600.00 12.0% 5. Capitalmall Trust 30,000 1.92 57,600.00 9.0% 6. Fraser Comm…

In a blink of an eye, we are almost halfway towards the year and I think it is quite an appropriate time to do a review of what has been set out as objective at the start of the year. My youngest son is already 4 months old (having born in the same year same…

Far East Hospitality Trust has been one of the most avoided Reits and shunned by investors for quite sometime having poor performance since it went public in late 2012 with an IPO price of 93 cents. Since then, it slides down almost on a clear downtrend every year given that the industry in general is…