This will just be a short update to my latest portfolio additions. This morning, I bought 10,000 shares of Ascott Reit at a price of $1.065. This is following their recent placement exercise after announcing their recent latest acquisitions of property in New York for USD 158 million (SGD 218 million). The property acquired is…
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“Mar 16″ – SG Transactions & Portfolio Update”
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. OCBC 6,000 8.80 52,800.00 14.0% 2. Ho Bee Land 22,000 2.00 44,000.00 12.0% 3. China Merchant Pacific 45,000 0.81 36,450.00 10.0% 4. ST Engineering 12,000 3.11 37,320.00 10.0% 5. Kingsmen 57,000 0.63 35,910.00 10.0% 6. Fraser Centerpoint…
How Do You Plan For Your Travel Itch?
One of my long term objective is to travel the world to learn and experience things. I like to travel because I can educate myself and my kids on things they will never experience in school while keeping abreast of constant learning on the go myself. In fact, I am always constantly challenged when I…
Observing The Market – “Fear of Missing Out”
The stock market has rallied very strongly to close the week at +188 points to end at 2,837. Sentiments have certainly calls for more bullish as we can see from how different certain individuals behave. You can sense when there are generally more positive news coming out from the media and individuals who started to…
Recent Action – Neratel
I recently made a purchase of Neratel of 13,000 shares at a price of $0.55. This was not a company I was unfamiliar with as I have previously been vested with them in 2011 before a couple of takeover saga takes place and I divested the share thereafter at 76 cents early last year. In…
Dividend Income Update – 1st Quarter 2016
As previously mentioned in the last quarterly update, this will be an attempt to try and provide a quarterly dividend income update to see on how it is progressing so I can have a clearer year to year comparison moving forward. For those who are new readers to my blog, dividend investing is a big part of my…
Is Maximizing Share Price Equals To Maximizing Shareholders’ Value?
If you ask any CEO of a company, he or she would tell you that their main objective for running the company is to maximize shareholders’ value. Maximizing shareholders’ value is subjective because as shareholders, we all want different kind of things. Some want better sustainability reporting or others may want higher dividends. There are…
Who Are The Real Robbers?
Let me start off with a story I read on the web. There was a robbery incident that took place in a bank one evening. The gang leader shouted to the crowd: Gang Leader: “Don’t move. These are money that doesn’t belong to you. Move and I will shoot you.” This is called Mind Thrust…
Where Are We On The 10-Year Treasury Yield?
When you are investing in treasury bonds, you are essentially lending money to the government that issued the bond. Treasuries are considered to be a safe haven in times of economic crisis because riskier asset classes like equities usually gets hammered downwards. Of course, there are treasury bonds that can default if the countries are…
“Feb 16″ – SG Transactions & Portfolio Update”
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. OCBC 6,000 7.56 45,360.00 13.0% 2. Ho Bee Land 21,000 1.86 39,060.00 11.0% 3. China Merchant Pacific 45,000 0.78 35,100.00 10.0% 4. ST Engineering 12,000 2.69 32,280.00 9.0% 5. Kingsmen 37,000 0.64 23,680.00 7.0% 6. Fraser Centerpoint…