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September 2018 Portfolio Updates
Stock Allocation Change Log Added Frasers Property Limited Overall, I think the month of September offered a sigh of relief as the fear of EM contagion and trade wars have subsided towards the end of the month. The US market reached all-time high and the Singapore market has rebounded back. It eve…
Have you truly reached FIRE?
When I first came across the term FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), my first thought is that it is just a 'hipster' term to describe people achieving financial independence. FIRE seems to be more popular in the western culture and among the younger people. The term financial ind…
Singapore Savings Bonds October 2018
For those who are interested in 'timing' the rates before subscribing, you would have read that the US central bank is looking at 2 more interest rate hikes by the end of the year as US economy continues to expand at a faster pace. The hikes will result in the short-term rates to rise. The…
Updates on Portfolio Realized and Unrealized Profit
My portfolio continued to fall and has entered into a region with unrealized loss (excluding dividends). This can be attributed mainly to the huge drop in the price of 800 Super after they released their 4th quarter report. The company had sank into the red for the quarter and the announced divide…
August 2018 Dividend Collected
Dividend payout for the month of August 2018
FRASERS L&I TRKEPPEL DC REITSINGTELM1SHENG SIONGVICOMST ENGINEERINGFRASERS CPT TRMAPLETREE NAC TRMAPLETREE COM TRSTARHUB
There are 4 more months to go and the dividend collected so far has not
exceeded last year total payout but it should be on targ…
The 'Noble' Hustle
The reason why the article is titled The "Noble" Hustle is because of a documentary which I came across recently and thought that the abovementioned quote in the film is quite applicable in the Noble Group episode. 'The China Hustle' is a documentary directed by Jed Rothstein whi…
August 2018 Portfolio Updates
Stock Allocation
There was no stock transaction done for the month of August 2018. Hopefully, there will be opportunities next month as the trade war reignites.
Asset Allocation
Change Log
Added NikkoAM SGD IGBond ETF
As mentioned here, I have subscribed to the NikkoAM SGD IGBond ETF as part of my…