On Sunday Times today, the newspaper came out with a controversial article that has raised a few eyebrows and backlashes from the public. Amongst my small circle group of friends, they were mostly grouped who comes from the line of art, engineer, lawyer, healthcare, research, human resource, financial advisors, IT, bankers, entrepreneur and self-employed. Apart…
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DataDog – Why I Like Its Business But Hate Its Valuation
This is another round of trying to look into more related companies in the tech space, something which I have not managed to do in the past. This time, I’m looking at Datadog, an organization which took a big leap of faith since it began to introduce its cloud-scale monitoring service in 2017 to a…
Holistic Approach to Financial Planning with DBS NAV Planner
If I were to throw a question to the audience on how many that have religiously tracked their spending in the last one year, the number would not have been significant. The main reason for this is budgeting and tracking our expenses are a hassle. If anyone has found it challenging to stick to a…
Shareable Asset – Investing Platform for Real Estate Using Blockchain Technology
If there’s anything that we’ve learned during Covid-19, it is that the potential of digital financial services in providing a secure, low-cost and contactless tools has become more apparent during the crisis. The reliance on convenience that digital financial services are starting to innovate has driven the demand needs for more fintech services. Shareable Assets…
Hyphens Pharma International Ltd (SGX: 1J5) – Uncovering Healthcare Gems
Hyphens Pharma International Ltd (SGX: 1J5) is a pharmaceutical company which focuses on the sales and marketing of specialty pharmaceutical products in key ASEAN countries through exclusive distributorship or licensing agreements with brand principals mainly from Europe and United States. The company was listed on 18th May 2018 about two years ago on the SGX…
Jun 2020 – Portfolio & Transaction Updates
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Lendlease Reit 70,000 S$0.72 64,800.00 30.0% 2. Silverlake 197,000 S$0.25 49,250.00 23.0% 3. Jardine C&C 2,100 S$23.30 48,930.00 23.0% 4. CDL Hospitality Trust 39,000 S$1.10 42,900.00 20.0% 5. GA Pack…
5 Financial Health Test That Determine Your Financial Robustness
The Sunday Invest Section came out today with an interesting Financial Health Test to determine our financial health check conditions. There are 5 sets of criteria that were used to test the financial robustness of a person’s financial condition. Let’s go over them one by one. 1.) Total Debt Servicing Ratio (Monthly Loan Installment /…
Adyen NV (AMS: Adyen) – Payment Gateway Riding On The Rise of E-Commerce
This is an attempt to read up more on global companies, in particular looking at some of the disruptors in tech space. In this article, I will be talking about a payment gateway solution company called Adyen NV, which has been around since 2010 but only really boom at the back of e-commerce trend two…
A Story of 4 Friends: Who Had The Last Laugh?
It’s been a while since I last wrote on a fiction story to think about on a Friday leading to weekends. Once upon a time, there were 4 friends who were once classmates when they were in school. Because of circuit breaker, they were bored with their daily routines so decided to do video conference…
Silverlake Axis (SGX: 5CP) – Why I Think This Company Is Severely Undervalued
Silverlake Axis (SGX: 5CP) has a rough performance this year so far. Just by looking at the chart, share price has dropped by almost half since the start of this year from 40 cents to the current 21.5 cents. If we take its performance from one year back, it has dropped a lot more from…