We have our regular contributor CK here who writes and provides good insight into the industry he has expertise on. I am learning a lot just by exchanging emails and chatting with him so it’s another pleasure of mine for him to provide his thoughts on the recent development ongoing with our property rush. One…
The Real Incentive Behind Achieving Financial Independence
I’ve written two themes about financial independence this year and they are both about passive income. You can refer to the link here and here. The allure of being able to have no worries about money is the main attraction of financial independence and you can quickly see so many people taking advantage of this when they tried…
Why Is My Stock’s Share Price Declining Despite Announcing Favorable Earnings Results?
Share price of a company moves up and down everyday for many different reasons. During earnings announcement, they are especially more volatile because investors are pricing in adjustment to the share price based on what was announced in the earnings. Earnings are a significant underlying determinant factor that can move the share price of a…
Dividend Income Updates – Q3 FY2017
With most of my companies already reporting earnings for this round of quarterly earnings, it is once again time to update my favorite part of the dividend income. If you recall in the past two quarterly updates (here and here), I am on a good decent track to hit a record high dividend received for the year,…
Comfortdelgro – Q2 FY17 Results & Thoughts
I was quite anticipating the results from Comfortdelgro and even more so after reading the results in the previous week by Vicom and SBS where both increased their payout to issue higher dividends to shareholders. I mentioned previously that I thought there was a good decent chance that Comfortdelgro might maintain their dividend as last…
“Aug 17″ – SG Transactions & Portfolio Update”
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Comfortdelgro 55,000 2.32 127,600.00 20.0% 2. Guocoland 55,000 1.95 107,250.00 17.0% 3. M1 55,000 1.775 97,900.00 16.0% 4. Fraser Logistic Trust 80,000 1.085 86,800.00 15.0% 5. Fraser Comm Trust 40,377 1.385 55,922.00 9.0% 6. Katrina 210,000 0.205…
Guest Post by CK – Accounting For Development Properties Using Bukit Sembawang As Case Study
One of the many favoured investment options is to buy properties for capital gains and rent it to receive passive rental income. Such properties are classified as developed or development properties in the balance sheet of the Company. Put it simply, these properties are built to be resold to end users. In this post, I hope to let…
Taking A Walk At Festival Walk (Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust)
I had a free and easy day today after finishing errands the past few days. I messaged a long time friend who’s in HK and he asked me where I’d like to meet up. I’m bored about going to Causeway Bay and Tsim Tsa Tsui since I’ve been there a zillion times so I asked…
Recent Action – Guocoland
I am writing this down as a short thought before I forget on some of the points that I had in my head. As I’m currently still overseas, I’m unable to produce the excel spreadsheet I had with me back home, hence I’ll just pen them down into words for now. I’ve been slowly building…
Running Your Own Finances Like How Companies Are Run
I always feel the way we folks run our own finances are similar in nature to how we tend to prospect companies for our investment. It has to be correlated in that manner, we get to improve on one thing and that thing opens up the door for another perspective. It has a compounding double…