Bear market: We could be getting close
Coming to a potential inflection point At 126 months, the US is in its longest economic expansion in history, breaking the record of 120 months of economic growth from march
February 18, 2020
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Are you overpaying your REIT manager? Which S-REITs have the “highest” management fees?
The sustainability of a REIT dividend/distribution payments is a key consideration for most investors looking at generating a passive income source from the ownership of such assets. We highlighted the
February 14, 2020
SATS 3QFY20: Not a pretty picture
SATS announced its 3QFY20 results on 13 February after the market closes. As expected, the results weren’t pretty. We highlighted in a short write-up of the company back in early
February 14, 2020
5 US recession-proof companies with 14 years of consecutive EPS growth
Recession-Proof Companies There are many US companies with an illustrious track record of growing their dividend payment every year. The bests of the bests are the Dividend Kings, companies that
February 13, 2020
Creating the Best tax Efficient ETF Portfolio to Invest in?
This article looks to identify the best tax efficient ETF portfolio to invest in for Global, US and Emerging Market exposure. For investors who have been engaging a DIY approach
February 12, 2020
Which S-Reits have the best record of dividend growth?
I thought it will be useful to list the dividend-paying track records of S-REITs. Consistent dividend growth is one of the key criteria that I personally used in the evaluation
February 7, 2020
Sembcorp Industries: profit warning a prelude to more pain in 2020?
Sembcorp Industries profit warning Sembcorp Industries (SCI) issued a rare profit warning after the market closes on 6 February. The company highlighted that it will be making a material impairment
February 7, 2020
Manulife US REIT: Potential for more upside?
A quick introduction Manulife US REIT has seen strong appreciation in its share price post the counter inclusion in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Index on 23 December 2019. Likely due
February 6, 2020
A better alternative to Dollar Cost Averaging?
Dollar-cost vs. Lump-sum Dollar-cost averaging is the strategy of breaking down a large sum of money and periodically deploying these smaller chunks of funds into investable assets such as stocks/bonds
February 5, 2020
Philip Morris: The 5.5% yielder that pays almost ZERO dividend withholding tax
Philip Morris: A SIN stock aiming to do good To some, Philip Morris is considered a “SIN” stock that they will not engage with a 10-foot pole. Well, this is
February 3, 2020
Straco: Perfect storm hits. What to do next?
Straco had just been hit by the perfect storm that will almost certainly impact its upcoming 4Q19 results as well as 1Q20 results. Flyer suspension The bad news started streaming
February 1, 2020
What do Netflix, Alibaba, DBS, Microsoft have in common?
I recently came across an interesting article. This was a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article back in Sep 2019 which identified the Top 20 global companies that have achieved the
January 31, 2020
Don’t let Sequence of Returns Risk be your retirement pooper
Sequence of Returns Risk could be your major party pooper Imagine a hard-working individual name John who started saving and investing early and amassed a nest egg of $1m in
January 24, 2020
Best commodity asset of the decade and why Bitcoin might prosper in 2020
I came across this pretty interesting diagram from visualcapitalist aptly called The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns. Its a really fancy table with a myriad of colours that caught my
January 17, 2020
Dividend Yield Theory – the Underappreciated Valuation Tool
Most of you would have heard of dividend growth investing, buying companies with a good track of growing their dividends. This is a solid way to grow your income over
January 15, 2020
Top 5 analysts of the decade and their current favorite stocks
I follow this website called TipRanks from time to time when I am running dry of stock ideas. TipRanks is a fintech website that tracks and measures the performance of
January 14, 2020
