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For a long time, I’ve been thinking why I had pursued the niche path to financial independence. Since I started working 12 years back, I’ve been trying to push aggressively my agenda for financial independence. I scrimped, saved and invest really hard for years just to try and get out of the rat race so…

Frasers Hospitality Trust (FHT) announced its Q2 results last Friday evening with the Trust being the last few batch to announce amongst its other hospitality Reits peers like CDL Hospitality Trust, Ascott Reit and Far East Hospitality Trust. The latter all provided an operational update for its Q1 results as more companies are adopting a…

No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Silverlake 197,000 S$0.27      53,190.00 30.0% 2. Lendlease Reit   70,000 S$0.58      40,600.00 23.0% 3. CDL Hospitality Trust   39,000 S$0.94      36,660.00 21.0% 4. Jardine C&C     1,400 S$20.20      28,280.00 16.0% 5. Valuetronics  …

I’ve been accumulating quite a bit of Lendlease Reit over the past month and is currently my second biggest holding in the portfolio. In the past recent weeks, we’ve seen some solid rebounds in most of the equities in the market and it seemed to benefit everyone who has vested in the market. My current…

The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board is a compulsory comprehensive savings and pension plan for all working Singaporeans and Permanent Residents primarily to ensure that they have enough buffer for their retirement, healthcare, and housing needs in Singapore. When I started working in Singapore about 12 years ago, I started off as an employment pass…

It’s been 3 weeks since we last entered a circuit breaker lockdown that commenced on the 7th April. There are still about 4 more weeks to go before the circuit breaker is lifted so we are almost halfway through the mark (hang in there!). Kudos to everyone out there who’s worked hard in particular the…

Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MNACT) is scheduled to report their FY2019 results later today after the close of trading. The Reits have been an investor’s favourite for many years due to its staggering growth profile in the greater region of Beijing, Shanghai and Hongkong but with the tides turning, the question is if the…

One of the initiatives that were rolled out by MAS in order to assist homeowners during this period of Covid-19 is to allow for deferment of home mortgage payment. As more than 90% of all Singaporeans tend to be homeowners, this measure will enable most people to take a breather in the midst of this…

Winter is finally here. By now, you must have realized that the world is on an unprecedented pandemic crisis and global economies are being impacted. What seems like a containment in one area of a globe has now spread to more than 190 countries, affecting millions and billions of people, both physically and financially. To…

Since the market last bottomed on the 23rd March when STI falls to a level of around 2,200, it has rebounded some 400 points to end this week at 2,614. We have seen volatility drying up a little bit since the “exciting” days of circuit breaker, when major indices like the Dow going up and…