As we draws down the rest of the days in 2013, most of us will take this time to reflect back on the things that has happened in 2013 and set a goal for the upcoming new year of 2014. An overlook back of my investing journey in 2013 would see that I started off…

Singapore Pools – Towards Community Purpose and Benefit A couple of weeks ago, the government plans on the possibility of limiting access to online gambling platforms and sites. They quote the reasons as being harmful and people will get addicted easier when betting online than on site. Being a regular in this field, I can…

First warchest for ST Engineering activated and my first X’mas present for the month 🙂 I entered a small position for ST Engineering today at $3.80 after a few days of general continuous decline in the STI market. ST Eng has always been a stock that I’ve always liked due to its defensive nature.  I’ve…

With just over less than a month to go, it seems that investors favorite, S-Reits will end up its performance in 2013 in negative territory. To date in 2013, S-Reits have returned -7.7% price return YTD, underperforming the STI ETF by 6.4%. This is in stark contrast to the stellar performance it has given investors…

 Results of Rights Units Applications for Ascott Reits are as follows: No. of Rights Units % of Rights Issue Valid Acceptances 246,557,766 97.2 Excess Applications 168,453,301 66.4 Total 415,011,067 163.6 From the results, it seems many investors subscribe to the rights allocation they were entitled to. In fact, only 2.8% were available for the excess…

This has been the Billion dollar question for everyone since we had Dow hitting record high 16,000, S&P hitting record high 1,800 and Nasdaq hitting record high 4,000. It has been common that when major indexes hit their respective record high, retail investors become more wary of their reversal turnaround and expecting a crashdown in…

Many companies have now used the Myers Briggs Personality Test as the first round of elimination to search for suitable candidates. I remember the time when I had to do some sort of the Myers Briggs test for my current job. Applying for an Accountant position, it is a no brainer that they are looking…

With the recent Dow and S&P hitting the high 16,000 and 1,800 respectively, it seems no stopping the market going higher and higher. This is despite all the tapering noise that we are hearing for months now. On the local market, we don’t seem to have a run-up well above the 3,200 mark on the…