Tencent Holdings have been under a tremendous selling pressure over the last couple of months after its largest shareholder, Prosus NV announced mid-2022 that it was going to pare back a good amount of its holdings in the Chinese tech shares to fund its own company share buyback. Even though these trades have come in…
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Jun 2023 – Portfolio Transactions & Update
Apologies for missing the previous month update as I was traveling out of the country during the school holiday for quite an extended period (~ 22 days in total), bringing both our kids and parent for some reunion together. It was not an easy task because you have to plan and cater for something that…
Sea Ltd (NYSE: SE): 1-PLY Toilet Paper Valuation for Q1 FY2023
Sea Ltd made a few sensational headlines recently with its drastic cost cutting measures which puts the company back into profitability from last quarter. We are not just talking about headcount hiring freeze or salary increment pause. We are also hearing news from inside that they were removing all benefits which were provided previously to…
Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL) Share Price Breaks Out to the Upside Post I/O Keynote This Week and Still Undervalued!
The stock market is a voting machine in the short term but a weighing machine in the long term. Investors might recall just about in the past three-month, Alphabet was hit by a slew of bad news. These include Google AI Chatbot Bard flubbing its answer during the demo, followed by threats about Microsoft Bing…
Apr 2023 – Portfolio Transactions & Update
As today is a public holiday due to labour day, I had an opportunity to quickly update the blog. As there are no changes to the positions in the portfolio from both buying and selling side, this will be a relatively short update. The market continued to trade in range for the month of April…
uSMART Improved Option Trading Strategies and Grid Trading That Can Help You Invest and Trade Better, Faster!
The spike in market volatility due to the ongoing economic turbulence and several market challenges in relation to interest rate hikes and inflation could reign supreme once again and dominate the headlines as investors worry about the potential for more trouble rippling through the market. Trading in today’s market environment requires agility and the willingness…
Does Digital Core Reit Deserve to Trade at Double the Yield of Keppel DC REIT?
The prospect for a Data Reit centre demand was so hot last year that when Digital Core REIT decided to list in SGX last year, there were many that jumped into the bandwagon – benchmarking its performance to the very resilient Keppel DC REIT which has been around longer. Myself included – I subscribed to…
All You Need To Know About REITs Symposium 2023 (20 May) @ Suntec Convention
One of the most anticipated and largest REITs events of the year is back in full force once again – with this year’s REITs Symposium to be held on the 20th of May 2023 on a fully physical event (last year was a hybrid event with the physically organized at the Suntec Convention Hall while at the same time…
Interview Series with the 3 Co-Founders of The Joyful Investors
As part of this newly featured series I am making to refresh the segment, I will be interviewing people from all walks of life into looking what they do for their day job, what they do outside of their day job, what their plans are for investment, and what are their thoughts for retirement. In…
Mar 2023 – Portfolio Transactions & Update
Apologies for the lack of posting in the past couple of weeks as I’ve been swamped with work lately due to the unexpected internal audit coming in to audit the company. Together with financial year end audit, that means two audits going on at the same time, which is not a very nice one to…