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Most valuations’ case study tends to focus on companies that are exhibiting positive growth rate in their earnings or cashflow over the next 5 years. They project the running cashflow rate by forecasting them over the next five years then discount them to the present value using a predetermined wacc rate. The alternative is to…

Just a quick update. After my previous incident covering back my position on UMS, I have some cash that I can allocate my position to and decide to further increase my position in Starhill Reit by purchasing an additional 130,000 shares at a price of 71.5 cents. My last purchase for Starhill was on the 7th…

In the spirit of being transparent, I thought I should give an update on my positions on UMS.  Based on the last portfolio update in Jan earlier this month, I have provided an overview on my portfolio that I am holding a rather large short position in UMS of 325,000 shares.  This was accumulated over…

Imagine yourself as a business owner who is looking out for a retail shop in an upper-scale mall located across either Singapore or Hongkong.  The location could be located at the prestige Orchard Road or the Vivocity of Singapore or on the other sider at the oceanfront Harbour City or Times Square of Hongkong.  Either…

A few days ago, I wrote an article relating to why most people need to eventually convert your active to passive income at the end of the day. There are a few good arguments here and there that surrounds whether we need passive income in our lives but I think most people are in consensus…

Do you have business liaison to attend to overseas?  If yes, you are probably familiar with the remittance and transfer platform that you have been using to transfer your funds overseas either to your business partner or vendor.  While bank transfer appears to be the most frequently used platform because it is directly debited from…

Having worked professionally in the accounting and finance field for more than a decade in 4 different companies throughout my career, you would have thought I have a plethora group of friends and colleagues who likes to convert their active into passive income like myself.  That is not the case.  Within my circle group of…

I spent my time during the weekend watching with my wife an ongoing popular series on Netflix called Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.  We barely watched only the first episode but it has already brought a change impact in us. In the first episode, KonMarie talked about why we should spend time tidying up our…

Hello 2019! Since I stopped updating on my portfolio 4 months ago, I’ve received lots of inquiries from readers asking me to reinstate back this post. After much deliberation, I’ve decided to republish them again in my blog starting this month with the January’s update.  While I don’t exactly know how these updates will benefit…

SPH Reit’s recent Q1FY19 results show something promising for the retail rent sector as they managed to negotiate for a 10.1% positive rental reversion for the renewed leases that expire in Q1FY19 for the Paragon properties. The Orchard central area continues to bounce back strongly on the back of strong high occupancy and the low…