Author: B

Most investors strive for excellence when they enter the market, building a sense of confidence that they believe will do well for themselves. Unfortunately, too few of them focuses on the negative aspect of the knowledge that is so critical to become a successful investor. The concept of negative knowledge is about experientially acquiring knowledge…

Today, I made a divestment for my last batch of 10,000 shares of FCT at a price of $2.09. The last two divestment I made in batches was in the previous couple of months at the price of $2.15 and $2.06 respectively. You can view my rationale for divesting here: Recent Action – FraserCenterPoint Trust…

I was reading Jason’s post on post-financial independence (Link here) and was intrigued by the prospect of thinking about life after financial independence. In the post, there’s a couple of financial bloggers who have span out their thoughts on pre & post financial independence weekly schedule which I thought was interesting to ponder around. Whenever…

 No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. China Merchant Pacific 74,150 1.06 78,600.00 26.0% 2. Vicom 8,000 6.24 49,920.00 17.0% 3. Fraser Centerpoint Trust 10,000 2.02 20,200.00 7.0% 4. Nam Lee Metals 70,000 0.29 20,300.00 7.0% 5. FraserCommercial Trust 11,000 1.48 16,280.00 5.0% 6….

Shareholders of Fraser Commercial Trust (FCOT) should already receive a circular notice stating their intention to purchase the 357 Collins Street at an estimated price of AU$200 Million. These development gets interesting because of certain situations that draw parallel to the recent case of Lippo Mall Trust (LMIRT) for their acquisition of Kemang mall, which…

Silverlake Axis has been one of those stocks I’ve been waiting to add into the portfolio for a very long time. I missed the great run-up a few years ago and I’ve been waiting since then. Today, I took the opportunity to add them at a purchase price of $0.94 for 12,000 shares. It appears…

I’ve been thinking of writing a slightly different content from what I usually write relating to personal finance and investing so glad that I managed to churn out one. At work, one of my main task is to make budget plans for the company and have them revisited regularly to allow the company to meet…

When I first started off this blog on my investing journey, I had a clear objective of what I wanted to achieve at the end of the day. There are several steps that I needed to follow and habits that I needed to change in order to achieve that and frugality is one of those…

The IPO balloting results are finally out this evening after quite a number people I know have applied, including myself. I had applied for 101,000 shares and didn’t expect much from it. True enough, the chances of getting 7,000 shares were probably very slim at 5% probability and the bid was not successful. There are…

We’ve had a couple of consecutive negative returns in the Singapore market in recent times now given the lacklustre start to the year.  It feels weird because on one hand it seems like a pretty normal things that we know the market will react but yet on the other hand because we have not had…