It’s been quite some time since the last time I talked about something that is related to personal finance so I think it’s about appropriate to revisit them in the early days of the year. The topic related is about emergency funds and it is right at the heart and foundation of personal finance. Often,…
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Investor Sentiment in Today’s Bull Market
The new year has started with its first green week and the general sense you get from the market is the people on the street are more optimistic, building up a strong end to 2017. Sir John Templeton once gave a great quote that says “Bull market is born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature…
Things I Look Forward To In 2018
With just over a day before the new year, I think it’s about time to sit back and self reflect about what are some of the things that I expect in the new year 2018. I wanted to originally do a target to achieve in the new year but quickly changed it afterwards because not…
2017 XIRR & Overall Performance
First of all, apologies for the lack of recent posting as I had just returned from a 2 week work trip overseas followed by a week of holiday thereafter back to back. As we are winding down this year, I would like to take some time to do a self reflection review of the performance…
“Dec 17″ – SG Transactions & Portfolio Update”
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Comfortdelgro 85,000 1.91 162,350.00 26.0% 2. M1 75,000 1.79 134,250.00 22.0% 3. Fraser Logistic Trust 80,000 1.10 88,000.00 14.0% 4. Ho Bee Land 30,000 2.49 74,700.00 11.0% 5. ST Engineering 20,000 3.21 64,200.00 10.0% 6. Vicom 6,600…
Bringing Accountancy To Life
I know that we are all finance geeks when it comes to life hence it may be easier to look at it the philosophical way when it comes to it. Life on the other hand is a bit more fragile and often people questions the existence of decision that has an impact in our lives. This…
Sabana Reit – Update On Strategic Review
I wrote on Sabana just a couple of days ago (Link Here) and wanted to update on their latest announcement. The update on the strategic review is finally out on Friday morning. This explains why the share price has been sliding down in the past couple of weeks since they announced their Q3 results, perhaps…
Recent Action – Sabana Reit
The recent downtrend of the company puts me into the buying radar zone and I managed to purchase 230,000 shares of the company today at a share price of $0.415. This purchase immediately made this into my top 3 holdings. You might have recalled that earlier in the year I managed to purchase this at…
Factor Based Investing Course (by Dr. Wealth) – Review
I had the opportunity to attend Dr. Wealth 2.5 days course which spans across the weekend thanks to the invitation by the team. This was my second time attending their courses and it is a very much expanded and improvised course than the first one I attended, which touches only on the CNAV (Conservative Net…
IFRS 16 – New Leasing Standard
If you are working in an accounting department, you should already be aware that this is one of the next major changes on the new leasing standard that will kick into effect from January 2019. While we still have more than a year to go, many companies are already preparing to shift into the new…