Portfolio Allocation Updates (October 2020) - REITs and Property Crashed!
Core Stock Allocation
Total Portfolio Allocation
- APPLIED PARTIAL FRASERS CENTREPOINT TRUST PREFERENTIAL OFFERING
- BOUGHT FRASERS CENTREPOINT TRUST
- BOUGHT MAPLETREE LOGISTICS TRUST
- BOUGHT ASCENDAS REIT
The month of October started off well, and markets are fluctuating up and
down based on the progress of negotiations for stimulus. Unfortunately, no
deal was reached in the end and the stimulus package will have to wait
until the US election is over. Market started to retrace with heavy
selling in the last 2 days of the month. It was quite an eventful month
for me.
In the middle of the month, I had to decide on whether to take up the
preferential offering by Frasers CentrePoint Trust, and ended up choosing
only to take up partially. This is due to the price of FCT falling below
the PO price after market closes on a few of the days and the first time I
took partial rights. This eventually turned out to be bad buy as the price
continued to sell down heavily on the last few days of the month.
Although the US election and the US COVID situation by right should not
affect Singapore, there were heavy selling in the local market especially
for REIT and Property counters. Not even the industrial and logistic
trusts are spared in this sell down. STI was broadly down as well.
I ended up doing panic buying and all my queues got filled. I bought more
FCT to average down my PO purchase. I also bought Ascendas REIT. What is
interesting is that Mapletree Logistic Trust went below the upcoming PO
price of $1.99. So, I also ended up buying MLT off the open market. This
means that I will not take part in the PO, which by the way is a miserable
19 new units for 1000 existing units.
With 3 purchases and 1 PO in a single month, I guessed I am pretty
overbought and will not be buying until the US election is over. If the
markets continued to fall after election, I will probably have to empty
out my warchest. Hopefully, there be will a rebound after the election, or
with the news of Phase 3, so that I can conclude my accumulations for the
year.
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