This morning (30 May 2023), the Singapore Exchange have officially launched a new product by the name of Singapore Depository Receipts (SDRs) under the Thailand-Singapore DR Linkage, where you can now buy and sell shares of 3 Thai blue-chip companies on your local brokerage platforms the same way you buy and sell shares of any Singapore-listed companies. If you’re unfamiliar with this, not to worry – you can read more about it in today’s post, along with getting a better understanding about each of the 3 Thai companies in terms of its businesses, financial performances, and dividend payouts over the last 5 years…
4 Non-REIT Singapore-Listed Companies that Pays out Quarterly Dividends
REITs are not the only ones that pays out dividends once every 3 months – there are some non-REIT companies that pays out a dividend in such a time frequency too. In this post, you’ll find 4 of such companies (3 of them are constituents in Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index), along with a brief introduction about its business operations, as well as its financial performances and dividend payouts over the last 5 years…
Ready to REITire Series Video #5 – Navigating through Changing Trends
2 things have changed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic – people are now used to, and want to continue to ‘work from home’ instead of working in the offices, along with buying whatever they need online – that said, how will these changing trends affect the office and retail properties respectively? In the final part of this ‘Ready to REITire’ video series, filmed together with the team at The Joyful Investors, you can find out our views on this…
Ready to REITire Series Video #4 – The Impact of Rising Interest Rates on REITs
The days of low interest rates are well and truly over, with the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates by 7 times last year (in 2022) to bring Federal Funds to 4.25% to 4.50% at the end of the year (from a rate of 0% to 0.25% before the hikes.) As REITs need to take on bank borrowings to fund for acquisitions, how will the rise in interest rates affect their growth? In the 4th instalment of the ‘Ready to REITire’ video series done together with The Joyful Investors, we will be sharing our thoughts, along with why REITs still make good investments…
Ready to REITire Series Video #3 – 3 Potential ‘Red Flags’ to Look out for
Are REITs in your investment portfolio free from these 3 ‘red flags’? In this 3rd of the 5-part of the ‘Ready to REITire’ done in collaboration with the great team at The Joyful Investors, we’ll be sharing with you what they are – knowing what these 3 ‘red flags’ are, and making sure the REITs you’ve or are going to invest in are free from them will help to significantly reduce the likelihood of you making a bad investment decision…
Ready to REITire Series Video #2 – 3 Things to Look out for when Selecting REITs to Invest
At the time of writing, there are about 40 REITs listed on the Singapore Exchange. That said, how do you go about selecting the best ones to invest in? In today’s post (which is the second of the five part ‘Ready to REITire’ video series done in collaboration with The Joyful Investors), you will learn about the 3 things we look at when we choose a REIT to put our hard-earned money in…
Ready to REITire Series Video #1 – Introduction to S-REITs
‘Ready to REITire’ is a 5-part video series done together with The Joyful Investors where you will learn about everything you need to know about investing in REITs to generate a regular stream of income. In the first part of this series, we will be sharing with you what exactly a REIT is, along with some of the advantages and limitations of it…
Key Takeaways from the 8th Edition of REITs Asia Pacific 2023
I had the honour of attending the 8th edition of REITs Asia Pacific 2023 as a media partner. Apart from the ‘Asia Pacific Best of the Breeds REITs Award’ presentation, there were also a series of panel discussions, including (i) whether logistics/industrial REITs will be able to continue their outperformance in the year ahead, (ii) can Asia’s REIT market thrive amid high inflation cost, (iii) is this the best time to invest in technology for the REITs market, and (iv) how important is ESG to the REITs market – where you’ll find key takeaways in this post…
New to Investing and Looking for Fundamentally Sound Companies to Invest? Here’s a Good Place to Start…
One of the most common questions I have been asked by people who are new to investing is, ‘There are so many listed companies in the Singapore, United States, and Hong Kong market. Where do I start?’ In this post, you’ll find a list of companies in all the 3 markets I have done reviews on (particularly, you’ll find reviews of 19 Singapore-listed companies, 41 NYSE- and NASDAQ-listed companies, and 10 Hong Kong-listed companies), which I feel will provide a good starting point. But despite having said that, the posts does not represent any buy or sell recommendations for any of the companies. You should always do your own due diligence before committing to making any investment decisions…
My Year in Review: 2022
With the year 2022 coming to a close, I felt it is timely for me to share a review of my investment and trading journey this year. If I were to sum up the entire year in one word, it will be the word ‘challenging.’ In this post, you’ll find key highlights about my year (as a retail investor cum trader) to note (both the good, as well as the bad…)
