Author: B

First, I would like to apologize for my inactive posting over the past week due to having to rush out reports for my group projects as well as preparing for the upcoming exams this Saturday (ohh noo… I am mentally unprepared). Anyway, the big news over the past week has been the US shutdown and…

During the last FOMC meeting, the FED has announced that no tapering of Quantitative Easing (QE) will be done. Suddenly, investors rejoice and the party continues to run on steroids. People are looking once more to enter on risky assets or companies with high leverage to maximize their returns while the FED is sustaining the…

So you’re all set, geared up and ready to set out on your financial freedom journey. Or you might already been there halfway like myself. Wherever you are in your journey, you might already earned your own first pie of your dividend income. Different people have different ways of looking and utilizing their dividend income….

We know that much of Jardine’s C&C earnings are dependent almost entirely on how Astra would perform as their earnings contributed 93% of Jardine’s earnings. The other 7% or so would go to the “Other Motor Interests” business they have with Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. Therefore, any adverse changes in the political, social, economic and…

Jardine Cycle & Carriage is one of the leading bluechip Singapore listed company and a member of the Jardine Matheson Group. It has an interest of over 50% in Astra, a premier listed Indonesian conglomerate, as well as other motor interests in SEA. This is a company which has yields over ROE > 20% in…

Many people said that marriage is a burden to expenses. I wouldn’t exactly deny that but I wouldn’t want to avoid marriage too for that reason. It is true that when two people got married, it seems that even though your spouse is also earning income (which adds up to your overall household income), the…

SIA Engineering has been one of my personal favorite and a darling company for many investors which has seen its dividends grow from 16 cents to 18 cents, 20 cents, 21 cents and finally 22 cents in the past 5 years. The management has also returned shareholders value well with ROE > 20% in the…

Hospitality sectors have been under huge pressure from the markets in recent months and it is easy to see that from the graphs. On YTD, the shares for CDL Hospitality Trusts have fallen from a 52 week high of $2.12 to today’s 52 week low of $1.50. I managed to load them today at $1.505….

When I was young, we were always taught to win. To win at something, it means that your opponents will have to lose. It is for that very reason why everytime we finish playing “Monopoly” board games with our friends or relatives, we don’t feel good about it – even as we finish the game…