Money Management

Revised Dividend Yield for SBS Transit

Followers of my Dividend Stock Tracker would have notice by today of a sudden change in Dividend Yield for SBS Transit.
I feel i need to always explain these revised yields so that viewers do not get mislead by extremely good yields.
At current price near 2 dollars the yield i used to put was near 15%. […]


Introducing my Dividend Stock Tracker

How it came about
It started off with a frustration that i had whenever i use my excel sheet to keep track of my dividend stocks and other not-so-good dividend stocks. The frustration was that whenever i see a stock that was sold down pretty badly, i had to find the stock price and key it […]


Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) quarter review

Its time to screw MIIF. The infrastruture play that people say good and others say that it is deeply suspect.
They just released their quarterly report and by all figures it looks like they are suffering the effects of this global slowdown.

Net income was 25 million vs 145 million in the same period last year. This […]


Sarin Technologies Quarter Report

This is the most unexpected good results that i have gotten. I would expect the diamond industry to be weaker due to weak US consumption but it is fortunate that Sarin did produce a good set of results.

Revenue was 21% better than last year the same quarter
Profit was 43% better than last year
Cost on R&D […]


Hongwei Technologies half year financial results

For Hongwei Technologies, there weren’t much changes in this half year result presentation.
Net profit fell from 29 million RMB to 25 million RMB. The main reason for the fall have been a 165% increase in interest expense and 93% increase in income tax. Other than that Revenue grew 1.9%.
The shocker for Hongwei technologies lies in […]


Food Junction 3rd Quarter Results

This company, which i thought was a gem when i started investing 4 years ago, have been stagnating or even deteriorate during the past 4 years.
ROIC and Margins were decreasing but the biggest problem have been execution in overseas market. While BreadTalk have been doing well in this realm, Food Junction have struggle with its […]


Safety in Reits? Don’t count on it:Analysts

I’m bringing you this article that caught my attention on the business times. Certainly for dividend investors the opportunity in REITs have been getting good these few months with some REIT having yields up to 9-10%.
While searching for top yielders are important, it is worthwhile to choose based on growth prospects and value prospects as […]


Wealth is What You Make It

I found this guest post from Get Rich Slowly to be interesting. Would you be willing to do what this guy did? IMO not many would in Singapore. Its in our culture, its in our chinese mentality to be mercenary.
I learned something about how wealthy I am recently.
I am a pastor in a congregation that […]


Dividend Idea: SBS Transit - Aberdeen AM Purchase

Aberdeen Asset Management have always been known more for their value investing like style of choosing companies so it is interesting that I saw that they got vested in SBS Transit at SGD2.20.
SBS Transit have fallen quite a fair bit due to fuel cost and possible increase in operation cost.

Could it be that Aberdeen sees […]


Dividend Idea: SATS - Singapore Airport Terminal Services

Airline Ground Services and Inflight solutions provider have really taken a beating together with SIA Engineering and ST Engineering.
What is common between the 3 of them? A high possibility that sentiments are against them due to the slowing of US economy and demand for air travel and maintenance.

However, i think as a long term investor […]