I received an email from one of the reader which I thought it was interesting to share and further ponder around on the topic. He asked me a very beginner question because he is relatively new to the market. He asked me whether a share price might stay the same after 10 years even if…
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The Looming Dark Side of Retrenchment
My company had recently announced an undertaking restructuring exercise which would impact a few functions and one of the functions would be in my department. As a shareholder and someone who’s been investing for some time, I didn’t see this much as a surprise. Companies have the tendency to exercise their restructuring plan every once…
Investor Exchange 2018 (brought to you by BIGScribe)
Investor Exchange 2018 will be back again this year after a successful sell-out event last year which sells more than 250 seats for the event. This year, they have invited speakers who will be sharing their personal strategy in approaching their investment and how to grow the portfolio. My understanding from the organizer is that…
How To Play Fraser Logistics Trust (FLT) Rights Issuance
This is a continuation from the previous post where FLT decides to venture into their Germany and Dutch acquisitions. After the EGM was conducted and approved on the 9th May, they quickly came up with the details of the $476m equity fund raising activities which includes a private placement and a non-renounceable preferential offerings to existing unitholders….
Dividend Income Updates – Q2 FY2018
I am writing this dividend update in an attempt to compile my quarterly dividend performance for the year. The theme of this post will be based on my understanding of the advantage of dividend investing and that is to compound dividends for as early as we can, for as long as we live. I am…
“May 18″ – SG Transactions & Portfolio Update”
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Vicom 27,000 6.05 163,350.00 25.0% 2. M1 75,000 1.80 135,000.00 20.0% 3. Fraser Logistic Trust 100,000 1.05 105,000.00 17.0% 4. Far East Hospitality Trust 125,000 0.68 84,375.00 12.0% 5. Ho Bee Land 30,000 2.55 76,500.00…
FI Ratio
FI Ratio is one of the quantitative relation that I would start to track in my quarterly dividend updates because they are such an important part of the whole financial independence concept. The idea of the FI Ratio is simple. Everyone has their very own definition of what financial independence meant to them but quantitatively…
Ho Bee Land – Q1 FY18 Results & Thoughts
Ho Bee has just announced its Q1 results for FY18 which was closely expected with no big surprise. Rental income is the segment which I am monitoring closely and it continued its strong uptrend with a 6.1% year on year. This was due to the purchase of Lombard street which was reported in the Q4…
Far East Hospitality Trust Q1 FY18 – Results Review and Thoughts
Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT) released their first quarter results for FY18 this morning which I thought I’ll give a quick review on it since I made the purchase earlier this month. You can find the link to that article here. FEHT posted a 3.8% increase in the gross revenue and 4% increase in the NPI…
Frasers Logistics Trust (FLT) Ventures Into Germany and Dutch Acquisitions
At around this time last year, FLT makes 7 Aussie assets acquisition and added them into their portfolio of the logistics predominantly located in parts of Australia. This time round, they’ve gone a lot bigger by deciding to acquire 21 industrial properties, comprising of 17 properties in Germany and 4 properties in Netherlands which has…