There are many ways on how one would perform fundamental analysis on companies before he or she invests. It can be an extremely in-depth research, which is mostly recommended if you are unfamiliar with the company and you are purchasing it for the first time. It always pays off to know more than less but it can be…

When I started investing back in 2011, I’ve never really asked myself what is my goal in investing. Maybe it’s because of the mechanism that people often talk about that beats inflation over time. Or maybe it was an opportunity of one’s lifetime for an escape from the reality of working in a rat race…

In the past few years, we have probably given ourselves a little more slack because of the continuing bull run which does not seemingly going to stop. This bull run has been going for almost the past 6 years since the Great Financial Crisis and it has attracted many retail investors to start investing. I…

One of my goals for 2015 was to launch a mystery project to be completed by this year. Back then, I was not sure if this was going to be successfully launched and implemented by this year as I was busy completing my MBA program. There were also simply too many unknown factors and draggy…

In the recent years since I started investing, I have managed to gain quite a fair bit on the return of my equity portfolio from the assistance of a running bull market.  Even though this was partially achieved through hundreds of hours of thorough monitoring and research into companies which I think are worth investing,…

 No.  Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. China Merchant Pacific 69,000 1.06 73,140.00 25.0% 2. FraserCenter Point Trust 30,000 2.03 60,900.00 21.0% 3. SembCorp Industries 10,000 4.26 42,600.00 15.0% 4. Vicom 6,000 6.58 39,480.00 14.0% 5. Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust 20,000 1.03 20,600.00…

Following up on the recent full year results which I have blogged on my thoughts here, it’ll be interesting to update the valuation methods which I have done a couple of months ago (here) to see where it stands now that we have a more recent FY14 results to input. Previous DCF Analysis Just to give…

It seems almost just a couple of blinks ago that we celebrated Christmas and get everyone setting down their resolution for the new year. Unconsciously, we are already into the second month of the year and soon we will be heading into the third month. Friends and readers of my blog would know that I am a…

Sembcorp Industries have recently announced their full year results for the financial year ended 2014 and you can view the results on their website which I will not repeat and go through in detail here. I just wanted to focus on a few details which I am looking out for. 1.) Utilities by Segmental I’ve…

Design Studio, one of Singapore’s leading premier furniture manufacturer with core businesses in furniture and interior fittings, announced its full year results recently. They may not have an extremely popular household brand name that you often hear on the street, but you may want to take notice of this company given its strong earnings and…