I recently made a purchase of Neratel of 13,000 shares at a price of $0.55.  This was not a company I was unfamiliar with as I have previously been vested with them in 2011 before a couple of takeover saga takes place and I divested the share thereafter at 76 cents early last year.  In…

As previously mentioned in the last quarterly update, this will be an attempt to try and provide a quarterly dividend income update to see on how it is progressing so I can have a clearer year to year comparison moving forward. For those who are new readers to my blog, dividend investing is a big part of my…

Let me start off with a story I read on the web. There was a robbery incident that took place in a bank one evening. The gang leader shouted to the crowd: Gang Leader: “Don’t move. These are money that doesn’t belong to you. Move and I will shoot you.” This is called Mind Thrust…

When you are investing in treasury bonds, you are essentially lending money to the government that issued the bond. Treasuries are considered to be a safe haven in times of economic crisis because riskier asset classes like equities usually gets hammered downwards. Of course, there are treasury bonds that can default if the countries are…

No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. OCBC 6,000 7.56 45,360.00 13.0% 2. Ho Bee Land 21,000 1.86 39,060.00 11.0% 3. China Merchant Pacific 45,000 0.78 35,100.00 10.0% 4. ST Engineering 12,000 2.69 32,280.00 9.0% 5. Kingsmen 37,000 0.64 23,680.00 7.0% 6. Fraser Centerpoint…

This would be my last coverage for the company since I have divested in the company recently and thought I’d just finish the full year as part of the series. I’ll still be keeping a close look on the development of the company but unless I decide to get vested again, I won’t probably be…

If you had watched the movie “The Big Short” which is currently airing in theatre, you would have noticed that at the end of the movie, it quickly highlighted Bespoke Trance Opportunity as the next possible bubble to be burst which will cause another financial crisis greater than what we experienced in 2008. Some of…

We are early into the year so this is one concept which I wanted to reiterate again to readers on the importance of personal finance and not keeping up with the joneses. This strategy helps me a lot in my personal finance, especially in my younger days when everyone was partying away with their youth…

Many retail investors are usually not trained or equipped with the right skills to do analysis of a company. Because of this, they don’t usually draw an analysis of companies more in-depth than those analysts working in the sell-side. There may be an exception of one or two who does provide a balance view in…