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I provided an update almost half a year ago on where the market valuation is at that point in time. You can read the article here. The market was obviously much more bullish back then. I remember the index going up and up and there is only one way the market was going to go. Everyone…

Given the recent announcement made by Lippo Group that caused quite a panic amongst the retail investor, I used the opportunity to load up 8,000 shares of First Reit at a price of $1.17. The addition was timely because you don’t often get such opportunity to add quality reits into your portfolio, unless there are…

For most of us, we would possess both a mixture of things that we look forward to and things that we don’t look forward to in our everyday lives. For instance, I would most certainly not look forward to going to work on Monday and facing those daunting emails. On the contrary, I look forward to things…

I think retail investors are not a stranger to this company. This is a company that owns several chains of restaurants across the island that serves the famous Chilli Crab that become one of the iconic trademark of Singapore food to the tourists. What many doesn’t know is that the group also owns several chains…

This is my first quarterly results coverage review for CCT since I’ve been vested in the counter a couple of months back. The trust recorded a 2.6% increase for the quarter in the distributable income year on year, which translates into a 2.4% increase in the DPU to unitholders (which is approximately at 2.14 cents)….

Oxley is a relatively well known developers amongst the retail scene and they are the latest corporate to tap into the retail bond market by issuing a $125m with an option to increase to $300m depending on public interest. Going from the look of what their past retail bonds issuance is like and the public…

Earlier in the month, I wrote a post on a summary guide to some of the big developers listed in the stock market. You can view the post here.   In the recent weekend edition of the edge, they come up with a good summary guide for the impact of the extension charges in a…

I am now back in our local tiny island after spending a week away from the hustle and bustle of repeated weekly task. Even though the trip was still somewhat related to work and I still had to engage most of the time during the day attending meetings and discussions, and spending time responding emails…

My fellow bloggers and good friends LP and AK have both written an excellent article on their blogs explaining their thoughts on the bonds, so I am not going to repeat much of what is in the details.     Regular readers would know that I am not a big fan of bonds in general. I previously…