I am writing this dividend update in an attempt to compile my quarterly dividend performance for the year. The theme of this post will be based on my understanding of the advantage of dividend investing and that is to compound dividends for as early as we can, for as long as we live. I am…

No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Vicom 27,000 6.05 163,350.00 25.0% 2. M1 75,000 1.80 135,000.00 20.0% 3. Fraser Logistic Trust 100,000 1.05 105,000.00 17.0% 4. Far East Hospitality Trust 125,000 0.68   84,375.00 12.0% 5. Ho Bee Land 30,000 2.55   76,500.00…

FI Ratio is one of the quantitative relation that I would start to track in my quarterly dividend updates because they are such an important part of the whole financial independence concept. The idea of the FI Ratio is simple. Everyone has their very own definition of what financial independence meant to them but quantitatively…

Ho Bee has just announced its Q1 results for FY18 which was closely expected with no big surprise. Rental income is the segment which I am monitoring closely and it continued its strong uptrend with a 6.1% year on year. This was due to the purchase of Lombard street which was reported in the Q4…

Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT) released their first quarter results for FY18 this morning which I thought I’ll give a quick review on it since I made the purchase earlier this month. You can find the link to that article here. FEHT posted a 3.8% increase in the gross revenue and 4% increase in the NPI…

At around this time last year, FLT makes 7 Aussie assets acquisition and added them into their portfolio of the logistics predominantly located in parts of Australia. This time round, they’ve gone a lot bigger by deciding to acquire 21 industrial properties, comprising of 17 properties in Germany and 4 properties in Netherlands which has…

The bull market has been rampant in the past 10 years that our wealth gets accelerated function exponentially. This leads us to think that wealth can only move in one direction and it leads to that much easier to achieve financial independence by pro-rating your financial model accordingly. The risk is decluttered as one grows…

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) is a popular investment vehicle favored by local investors in the recent years. Even with the volatile market outlook, REITs is expected to perform in a stable trend with higher returns. However, with the recent rise in interest rate, should investors look at rebalancing this asset class within their portfolio?…

With the proceeds from the divestment from Comfortdelgro which I blogged earlier, I had also purchased 125,000 shares of Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT) at a price of 68 cents. This is a company that I once used to own, then divested, then move the funds around, and now back again to the same company. …

Readers of this blog would know that my strategy in investing has a preference towards investing in dividend companies and because of this, REITS would be one of the assets that I look at closely as it will continue to form a big part in my portfolio. On the current equity portfolio, 41% of the…