I’ve been keeping it inside my (war)-chest for a long time now. And finally I’ve got to just let the cat all out of the bag today. Retiring in Singapore demands a high level of both savings and income and this needs to be at least in the 8 digits figure. If you are short…

Bukit Sembawang Estates Limited (B61.SI) is a property holding company that is listed on the Singapore Exchange. Bukit Sembawang started it’s humble beginning as a rubber company back in 1911 before transitioned into a property developer in the 1950s. In 1968, Bukit Sembawang was incorporated in Singapore as a public listed company focusing on property…

Genting Singapore Ltd (G13.SI) is a company that is publicly listed on the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited on 12th December 2005 and has been a constituent of the FTSE Straits Times Index, a.k.a blue chip status ever since. Their core business involves gaming and integrated resort development across Singapore, Australia,…

No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Starhill Reit 377,000 0.70 263,900.00 29.0% 2. Vicom   31,300 6.48 202,824.00 22.0% 3. Netlink Trust 236,000 0.795 187,620.00 21.0% 4. First Reit 152,000 0.995 151,240.00 17.0% 5. Manulife Reit   81,000 US$0.85   92,759.00 11.0% 6….

I received an email from a reader who has just started working about a year in his corporate career and he wrote to me asking the optimal allocation he should be allocating his monthly income to his Expenses, Savings and Investments. This is hard to answer because first I do not know him well enough…

Starhill Reit announces two news today which I have earlier anticipated after management hinted at the need for an AEI on their Malaysia properties. The first is the renewal of the Master Tenancy Agreements for both the Malaysian properties – Starhill Gallery and Lot 10 Property. The 2 properties were acquired in 2010 and were…

Apologies for some of the late replies for those who messaged me last week as I just got back from our family holiday trip at Hoi An late hours last night and I am still recovering today from the late night flight. After my decision to take a temporary break away from a corporate work rat race…

I took a deep breath, straightened my chest, walked up to my boss and asked if he could spare me a few minutes.  “I promise it won’t take long” I said to him as he nodded agreeing to my request.  We couldn’t find an empty meeting rooms as we walked past a few of them…

Just a quick update on my new domain website, which I had to forcefully update after 10 years of using blogspot. The new link is now: https://www.3foreverfinancialfreedom.com It all started when I was recently constantly attacked by a group of spammers for my existing blogspot domain that would disallow me to post content on several…

Since I am coming up close to a decade of investing since I started my financial independence journey in 2009, I thought I’ll do a trilogy of articles on the “rewinding back to history” to remind myself how far the journey has been, and hopefully this can also inspire others who are keen to take…