Honeymoon to the United States – 2 Days 2 Nights in Silicon Valley and Cambria
Continued from our previous post - Honeymoon to the United States - 3 Days 2 Nights in YosemiteIn my previous post, I mentioned that we were travelling from Yosemite down to Silicon Valley. We managed to get a suite at Corporate Inn Sunnyvale at SG$170+,...
Give This Unicorn A Miss!
As per divestopedia, in the venture capital industry, a unicorn refers to any tech startup company that reaches a $1 billion dollar market value as determined by private or public investment.In July 2018, this Unicorn had raised US$1.6 Billion in the US Stock...
Singapore Endowment Plan Policy: Everything You Need To Know (+Calculator)
Endowment plan, savings plan, retirement plan, investment plan, annuity plan… whatever you want to call it, the purpose of these plans is to grow your wealth. Some of them also come with protection value.These plans are usually structured in a complicated way,...
Is Maternity Insurance For Singaporean Really Necessary? Let’s Take A Deeper Look.
As I approach the big 30, I see more and more of my friends’ baby pictures on their social networking sites. Some of them are expecting their first child while others are already at number two or three.They may be worried about the expenses after having a new...
You will have to trade with the mind, not the money (Guest Post)
Take this with a lot of salt for the sake of proper performance in the business of Forex. Your mind will be used mostly for trading instead of thinking of the money involved. It will make your performance better. There will also be a good income from the business. So...
Top Reads this Week (17 Feb)
Rounding up the top reads from around the web, as shared by fellow investors or myself in the Financial Horse Facebook Group. Taking stock of where REITs are currently (Investment Moats) Interesting take on REIT valuations. If right, it would mean that REITs are...
Redeeming DBS Points For KrisFlyer Miles
Sometimes, the most boring posts are the most helpful! After working hard accumulating all these miles, it is finally time to redeem those sweet, sweet miles to actually start flying in luxury. I recently wrote about using 40,000 KrisFlyer miles to redeem for 4...
Execution, Position Sizing and Financially Irresponsible Stock Positions
You give some people whose job is to invest money, and by a lot of standards they are good at it. Shockingly only 49% of their picks made money. Some of them was successful only 30% of the time. At the end of these, almost non of them lost money. They...
Term Insurance Vs Life: A Thorough Comparison & Analysis
Benjamin Franklin famously proclaims – In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except for death and taxes. Since death is an absolute certainty, we should always ensure that we are sufficiently insured for that unfortunate event one day.In...
SOG 4Q18 results: Look beyond the surface
Singapore O&G (SOG), one of my highest conviction holdings reported bad headline results on Friday night. But after digging in, the good news seem to outweigh the bad. 4Q18 revenue grew 10% year on year, recurring net profit was up 39% year on year, operating cash...
Politics and Business Review- The Legend of Hao Ran (皓镧传)
It has been a good Lunar New Year holiday break visiting relatives and friends as well as recharging one's human super battery in order to further one's journey and meet the constant challenges thrown at us in our daily lives. I have no time to do any finance blogging...
VICOM Declares Special Dividend
VICOM has announced their FY18 full year results on 11th February 2019. I do not own VICOM in my stock portfolio, however I have previously added VICOM to my wife’s stock portfolio as the stock price of VICOM is fairly stable and requires little monitoring. If...
SingTel Q3 FY2019 Results Highlights
Singapore Telecommunications released their latest quarter results recently. Here are some highlights: All information are sourced from SingTel’s latest quarter presentation and transcript here. 1. Operating revenue increases 1% year on year, all other...
Manulife Reit – Blogger’s Meet & Greet Session
Following the announcement of their full year results earlier this week, which I blogged over here, the management invited a few of us down for a meet & greet session over a informal setting working lunch. I like that they are conducting frequent Q&A...
Cory Diary : Intelligence comes with responsibility
The Saga of Hyflux has been burning for quite some period of time. As usual when something like such in trouble, investor community especially retirees will be affected. Unlike HPH Tr, Sabana Reit, Noble or S-Chips, listed Hyflux do produces Power other than Water to...
Portfolio Value as per February 2019
No of Shares Market Priceper Share(SGD) Total Value(SGD) 1 50,000 $1.02 $51,000.00 2 Best World 25,000 $3.25 $81,250.00 3 Centurion 50,000 $0.405 $20,250.00 4 Innotek 200,000 $0.475 $95,000.00 5 SingMedical 250,000 $0.445 $111,250.00 6 Sunningdale 60,000 $1.560...
Why Hyflux Perpetual and Preference Holders should Vote “No” to the Restructuring.
Hyflux has released its offer to bondholder, perpetual holders towards restructuring of the company after the Tuaspring's offer. Details of Offer for Perps and Pref Shareholders To summarise, Hyflux has offered to exchange the $900 million in value for Perpetuals...
Top 5 Singapore Stocks to buy (2019 edition)
There’s an interesting exercise that fund managers like to run. And it goes like this. Imagine that you’re a fund manager and you just raised S$100 million for a new fund. Because your fund is brand new, you own absolutely no stocks at all. This means that...
Ultimate Driver’s Guide To The Best Car Insurance In Singapore
So you’ve done the math, figured that you can afford the monthly cost of a car comfortably, and paid the downpayment for your brand new ride. Congratulations! Now comes the next cheem part: car insurance. Ugh. And like all other forms of insurance, buying a car...
Recent Sale – WH Group, Yichang HEC ChangJiang Pharmaceutical
Sold 5000 shares of WH Group @ HKD 7.38. Total profits including dividends was 20.80% with CAGR of 51.15% for 5 months holding period.Sold 800 shares of Yichang HEC ChangJiang Pharmaceutical @ HKD 36.00. Total loss including dividends was -1.06% with CAGR of -2.44%...
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