Ascendas REIT – A Case Of The Market Knowing Better?
I actually picked up Ascendas REIT in the middle of December when they announced the preferential offer for units, but their offer was only launched in early January, with the offering results...
View ArticleBuyer Beware – Ahma-nomics in Play
Remember the old adage that when everyone and their mother is putting money into the stock exchange, we should all get out? Well, this has actually just started happened again. Just as Japan has their...
View ArticleSaizen REIT – Free Shares, Free Money!
In what seemed like a crazy year since 2015, this was literally one of the dark horses of my recent purchases. I hesitated to blog about this until the counter went XD today, as it was a risky trade in...
View ArticleOrchard Road Report 1Q2016 – Budget Day For Yourself?
While on my monthly stroll down Orchard Road today (mostly empty on the sidewalks, as almost everyone’s in a shopping centre or in the air-conditioned underpasses), a crowd outside the OCBC branch at...
View ArticleInvesting with CPFIS – Keep It Simple
After reading TurtleInvestor’s blog post on investing with his CPF money, I felt compelled to write my own post about my experience with investing using my CPF money. Sometimes, it’s best to leave...
View ArticleOUE Hospitality Trust Rights Issue – Opportunity, or Fallacy?
Sure-win lottery? I really wanted to write an article on this over the Labour Day weekend at the start of May, but somehow procrastination set in, and with my busy schedule, somehow I forgotten to...
View ArticleWhen the Music Stops – No More Minimum Commissions on Standard Chartered
Well, an era of no minimum commissions has ended for retail investors in Singapore – Standard Chartered has sent out love letters to clients like me, informing us of the change in commissions from...
View ArticleA Review Of Maybank-Kim Eng’s Monthly Investment Plan
On the back of the minimum commission charges being imposed by Standard Chartered, I’m writing this review of Maybank-Kim Eng (MBKE in short) Monthly Investment Plan as there weren’t any detailed study...
View ArticleSime Darby takes over Saizen REIT – Trustable Management?
Whoops, it’s been more than two months since I’ve last blogged! I’ve been really busy at work, and July seems to be quite a relatively boring month for the market (relatively speaking), and hence there...
View ArticleCroesus Retail Trust & Mapletree Commercial Trust – Preferential Offers
Phew, it’s been another busy month, and I was involved in my military reserve training at the start of the month (i.e. “NSmen ICT” or “reservist training” in the local lingo), so with my completion of...
View ArticleSoilbuild Business REIT Preferential Offer – Doing What’s Right?
A few weeks ago, Soilbuild Business REIT announced a preferential offer, and this came as no surprise to me, as they needed cash to purchase a Bukit Batok property from their sponsor, despite after...
View ArticleIREIT Global – Management Shuffle, with a Twist
An interesting announcement by IREIT Global yesterday about the sale of the manager to a subsidiary of a private equity firm perked my interest to do a little bit of digging on the company being sold...
View ArticlePhillip SGX APAC Dividend Leaders REIT ETF – A Panacea For Low Yield?
Normally, I’m not an active blogger due to my day job, which requires me to dabble in technology and finance, but when an interesting piece of news comes across my desk, I can’t pass up the chance to...
View ArticleFrasers Hospitality Trust Rights Issue – Opportune Time To Lower Gearing
Sorry folks for the late post (almost a month!), as I was really busy with work and life. Anyway, Frasers Hospitality Trust declared a rights issue at the end of September, and I took up the rights...
View ArticleFSMOne – New Trading Platform from IFAST
Yes, a new platform has arrived in Singapore as announced in the newspaper today, and while most people did not see this coming, I have been following the company’s growth and development closely over...
View Article2016 SGX Portfolio Breakdown, and a Li Chun (立春) Idea
So apparently I forgot to do a portfolio review at the start of 2016 (and I’m not sure why!), so I guess it’s opportune to do a breakdown now. Looks like my portfolio is heavily weighted on Finance,...
View ArticleSabana REIT Rights Issue – A Trap, or Simple Underperformance?
Usually, REITs don’t issue rights at a severely discounted price to it’s NAV unless they are in financial distress, and the recent rights issue from Sabana was heavily discounted, but Sabana isn’t in a...
View ArticleKrisEnergy Preferential Offer – Measured Risk Taking
After raising money back in 2005, KrisEnergy is back at the deal table due to their upcoming notes this year. Seems that it was a pretty good deal for the shareholders, as the zero coupon bonds that...
View ArticleAfter 13 Years, I Sold My Endowment Policy!
In a rare case of “happy endings” with insurance companies, I sold my NTUC endowment policy that I bought during my NS days to a company that buys them. After calculating the quoted value that REPS...
View ArticleAscott REIT and AsiaPhos Rights Issue – The Pauper and The Prince
My humble apologies dear readers, as I was really caught up with work till date. There wasn’t much time for me to put my thoughts onto “paper”, so finally here is my quick write-up of two counters –...
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