Hong Kong-listed Li Ning Company Limited (SEHK:2331) is one of the leading sports brand companies in China, where they retail footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories under their namesake brand. In this post, you’ll learn about the company’s historical financial performance, debt profile and dividend payout (between FY2017 and FY2021), whether or not its current traded price is considered ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’, along with my thoughts to share…
6 Things You Need to Know about the Straits Times Index (STI) Before You Invest
For those of you who do not have time to study the individual companies, but at the same time want to invest in the Singapore market, you may consider investing in the country’s benchmark index – the Straits Times Index (or STI for short), where you’ll be invested in 30 of the biggest Singapore’s listed companies by market capitalisation. Here are 6 things you need to know about the Index to give you a good understanding about it before you invest…
EC World REIT: What You Need to Know before Attending the Upcoming EGM
On 03 October, EC World REIT (SGX:BWCU) announced the proposed divestment of 2 properties in its portfolio to raise 25% of its total borrowings for repayment by 31 December. An EGM will be convened on 16 December to seek unitholders’ approval. Since the announcement was released, I have been trying to seek clarifications with REIT’s investor relations with a series of questions. In this post, you’ll find all the questions I have raised, along with responses by the REIT. On top of that, you’ll also find all the questions unanswered (even till today), my request for assistance from Security Investors Association (Singapore) (SIAS), details of its upcoming EGM, and finally, my thoughts about this whole episode…
What You Need to Know about EC World REIT’s Q3 and 9M FY2022 Results
China-based e-commerce and port logistics REIT in EC World REIT (SGX:BWCU), with 7 properties in its portfolio, have released its results for the 3rd quarter, as well as for the first 9 months of the financial year 2022 ended 30 September 2022 after market hours yesterday (09 November 2022.) As a unitholder of the REIT, I have studied the documents posted and in this post, you’ll find my review of its latest financial results, portfolio occupancy and debt profile, as well as its distribution payout to unitholders for the current period under review…
Which Singapore-Listed Bank Had the Most Resilient Set of Q3 Results for FY2022?
Now that all 3 Singapore-listed banks (in DBS, UOB, and OCBC) have made available their business updates for the third quarter of the financial year 2022 ended 30 September, its time to put their results side-by-side to find out which bank stood out in terms of improvements in its financial results and key financial ratios. Additionally, you’ll also find out which bank is ‘cheapest’ based on their current valuations…
My Review of OCBC’s Q3 FY2022 Business Update
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (SGX:O39), or OCBC for short, have made available its business update for the third quarter of the financial year 2022 before market hours this morning (04 November 2022.) In this post, you’ll find my review of the Singapore bank’s key financial performance figures and ratios (these are the exact statistics I focus my attention on whenever I study a bank’s results every quarter…)
DBS Group Holdings’ Q3 FY2022 Business Update – What You Need to Know
DBS Group Holdings Limited (SGX:D05) is the second Singapore-listed bank to release its business update for the third quarter of the financial year 2022 ended 30 September 2022 early this morning (03 November 2022.) In this post, you’ll find key aspects about its latest set of financial results and financial figures to take note of, along with my thoughts about them…
Webinar Replay: My Views and Outlook of the Chinese Market
Earlier today (02 November 2022), I was being interviewed by the COO of InvestingNote, Mr Ethan Ho, on my views and outlook of the Chinese market – where I talked about possible reasons why the Hang Seng Index and Hang Seng Tech Index have fallen by more than 50% and 70% respectively (at the time of the interview), catalysts and risks for the Chinese market to rebound or fall even further down, as well as my technical analysis of the 2 Hong Kong indexes, Alibaba, Meituan Dianping, and Tencent. For those of you who have missed the ‘live’ session, not worry, as you can catch the replay in this post…
Key Aspects from CapitaLand Ascendas REIT’s Q3 FY2022 Business Update to Take Note of
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT (SGX:A17U), with a total of 230 properties in its portfolio and total assets under management of approximately S$16.5 billion, reported its business update for the third quarter of FY2022 ended 30 September 2022 shortly after market hours this evening (31 October 2022.) As the REIT have switched to half yearly reporting of its financial results, it only reported its portfolio occupancy and debt profile this time round, both of which you’ll read about in this post, along with my thoughts about them…
8 Things to Note about the New UOBAM Ping An ChiNext ETF
For those of you who are looking to diversify your investment portfolio to invest in the Chinese market, yet at the same time not well-versed in Chinese to study the annual reports of individual companies, the new UOBAM Ping An ChiNext ETF is one you can consider. With this new ETF, you’ll be able to get instant access to the ChiNext Market, which is less accessible to foreign retail investors. In this post, you’ll learn about the essentials you need to know about this newly launched ETF, which I hope will give you a better understanding at the end of it…
