This is an attempt to read up more on global companies, in particular looking at some of the disruptors in tech space. In this article, I will be talking about a payment gateway solution company called Adyen NV, which has been around since 2010 but only really boom at the back of e-commerce trend two…

It’s been a while since I last wrote on a fiction story to think about on a Friday leading to weekends. Once upon a time, there were 4 friends who were once classmates when they were in school. Because of circuit breaker, they were bored with their daily routines so decided to do video conference…

Silverlake Axis (SGX: 5CP) has a rough performance this year so far. Just by looking at the chart, share price has dropped by almost half since the start of this year from 40 cents to the current 21.5 cents. If we take its performance from one year back, it has dropped a lot more from…

Stock market crashed again on Friday. This time round, it is not due to the Covid-19 but news that Beijing is governing stricter laws on Hongkong. Public Holiday next Monday, and I extended another day for myself by utilizing my leave on Tuesday. As a result of that, I received my salaries earlier than the…

The REITS asset class have been gaining popularity fast amongst the local investor scene since we have our first investment trust back in 2002. The earliest investment trust was CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) when it IPO in 2002 and today its market cap has since jumped 16 times to $9b over a period of 18…

According to Wikipedia, “Passive income is income resulting from cashflow received on a regular basis, requiring minimal to little effort by the recipient to maintain it.” It is a source of income that most people in this world strives to achieve because of the attributes that I will be going through below. Almost few people…

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…