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BIGScribe will be hosting their biggest event this year by partnering up with 7 well known and proven capable speakers at the Investors Exchange 2017.  This event will be huge because it is a big crowd and there are various topics which will be covered by each individual, so it isn’t like we are only…

A bubble formation is technically speaking a concept in the market where more and more people are entering and participating in a phenomenon that gets bigger. It started all the way from the first few batches that enter into the phenomenon and made extraordinary gains from sitting in a pot of gold, then made into…

Singtel has filed a preliminary prospectus to list one of its associates, Netlink NBN Trust to list on the Singapore Exchange. They were given a deadline by the IMDA to spin off their infrastructure division but still held 24.99% unitholding of the Trust after the offering. There is a book-building process which will determine the…

We’ve been talking a lot in our community on the accumulation phase throughout our working life, either by choosing the right investment product or getting the right insurance protection but there is hardly a discussion on the decumulation phase.  The two are linked because our life is finite in nature, thus there is a need…

After my post yesterday on CDLHT issuance of the rights and acquisitions, this post is about the few choices you can do to play around exercising the rights or if you dont intend to. My last participation was for sabana reits which happens not too long ago. In that event, I managed to buy the…

CDL Hospitality Trusts is currently my top position in the portfolio so I am inclined to write about the news they have announced today. The Trust announces two big news – the first being the acquisition of the Pullman Hotel in Germany, which amounted to about S$160m and will be fully funded by debt facility….

I received one or two queries on this recently so I thought it’s good to make this as sticky post for future reference. Real Estate Investment Trust (Reits) is not technically structured as a pure company that owns businesses or assets. They are being structured as an investment holding entity which requires a Trust Deed…

It is part of human tendency to shy away from the reality when it strikes and we are often left to provide excuses to justify and defend ourselves. To a large extent, people feels uncomfortable when they start thinking about personal finance. It is almost that feeling of resigning to fate because the world places…

Every now and then I tried to force myself to do a bit of homework in updating my spreadsheet for some companies that are in my watchlist.  This article is about consolidating the strength of the company through looking into the lenses of the health of the balance sheet. I am only covering ground on…

Most of you readers know that I love Reits investing because it fits my profile of having a sustainable stream of dividend income that pays every quarterly or semi-annually. This is align with my aspirations of being able to use the rest of my time to do what I wanted to really do. As a…