I am sure many of us have encountered a time when we see an opportunity and wanting to buy it yet have insufficient funds readily available. As people becomes more financially educated, the first thing that they learnt is that by putting their money in a savings account in the bank, they are effectively losing…
Are Singapore property still affordable at this price?
A good read news from Channel News Asia 😛 Singapore property prices is still low and affordable with good rental yields. A 2 room BTO HDB flat only cost $100K and after grants only cost $40K. Even someone earning $1K a month can afford to buy one. After he buys, the resale value can easily…
“I was cheap before frugal” – Classic
I was reading a post recently debating about the differences of being cheap and frugal and it does strikes a resembility between the two. (Let’s skip “spendthrift” for a moment because it is a huge gap that we all can easily identify). Assuming you are buying over a pair of shoes which cost one at…
“My Portfolio ending February 2012”
There has been a couple of transactions that I made in the month February as I tried to switch a couple of the shares I own and re-balance my portfolio. I sold 2/3 of my Yangzijiang and half of my CapmallAsia stocks and reinvest some of the money into Reits as I look to balance…
Which are harder – Selling a losing position or Exiting a winner
Investors need to realise that the way our human brain is wired makes selling a losing position as difficult as exiting a winner. So which do you think is more difficult….or are they both as equally difficult.. We as humans are naturally greedy and for everything we want more. “The more the merrier” as many…
~Added Fraser CenterPoint Trust (FCT) to my Portfolio~
I have sold off 17 out of my 23 lots of YangziJiang shares a couple of days ago, given that it has run up quite a lot these couple of days. The results are due in 1 March 2012 but just feel that I needed to get out of this shares as soon as possible…
ST Engineering Results – 23 February 2012
Singapore, 23 February 2012 – Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today reported revenue for financial year ended 2011 (FY2011) of $5.99b, compared with $5.98b a year ago. Profit before tax (PBT) registered a 4% growth to $655.2m, while net profit grew steadily by 7% to $527.5m. In the fourth quarter, Group’s revenue of $1.54b…
Which stage have you reached at this point in life?
To All dear friends, which stage have you reached at this point in your life? I think it is fair to say that all of us have gone through one kind of stage or another at our point in life. Others may stay in a particular stage for a long period of time while others…
CapMallAsia & YangZiJiang did us proud today!!!
Today CapitalMallAsia and Yangzijiang did us proud. And I would like to dedicate this post to people who are vested with either of the stocks. Today was the first time CapMallAsia surged through ahead of my average price which makes me overwhelmed and surprised (that they are up 10% at one point near the closing…
“Why would I trade my asset with a liability” – JP Morgan CEO
A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an…