As we wind down this week towards the last week of 2018, I wanted to reflect on a few aspects related matters that is important to me. I feel it is important to keep abreast of the situation and we reviewed them after each year has passed. Job / Career I left my 6 years…

Time really flies these days when we are in our mid 30s, pegged by a combination of busy work and heavy loads of watching our children grow as each year past by. I wanted to wrap things up for the year given that I will be taking a holiday trip to Bali with my family…

SIA Engineering has been an investor’s favorite for many years because of their moats servicing the maintenance and repair lines for various different airlines, with their own SIA planes taking up the majority of the recurring business. It does look like a defensive business because every capacity planes that are increasing each year would have…

When investors like us invest in the stock market, the goal is always trying to grow our wealth over time.  Investors are generally thrilled by the prospect of growth in general, whether they are referring to their income, savings or even the companies that they invest in.  We just love things going in the “up”…

I was having a short holiday trip with my family to KL in the past week so I did not particularly overlook the market too much other than quickly checking for news at night when my children has fallen asleep. At times, I felt a bit guilty for ignoring my portfolio a little while I…

To say that this has been a tough year for investment is an understatement. Investing, as a general form of growing your wealth is so damn tough that for one not to be losing money is sometimes already seen as a form of success. I can totally relate why many people avoided them like a…

This is a recent strategy which I am experimenting on my CFD account which I will be explaining more in detail when I have the time to blog the full implementation on it. I recently opened a short position in UMS Holdings at the price of $0.66 for 50,000 shares. This was somewhat a different…

I am writing this dividend update quarterly in an attempt to compile my quarterly dividend performance for the year.  With a rising cost of living under the belt, in particular with the two kids in tow and hence require some bits of maintenance spend to keep hold, it can be particularly stressful to keep up…

Following my experiment using CFD account to purchase shares which I blogged here a few months ago, I have finally received my first dividend payout credited to my account. Although rather straightforward, but they operate somewhat a little differently from holding a normal ordinary shares account hence I wanted to document this for future users. For those…

Ho Bee Land Limited is a property developer and investing company which has developments in various parts of Australia, China and United Kingdom.  The company has recently announced their Q3 FY18 results which brings about some of the key highlights:  1.) Rental Income has once again grown both year on year (up 28.3%) and quarter…