Assets Divestments at Macquarie Group, Babcock & Brown and Allco
Dividend & Income investors in Singapore would be scratching their head recently by the drastic fall in share price of Babcock and Brown Global Investment and Macquarie International Infrastructure fund.
BBGI dropped drastically to its current price of 29cts, a far cry from the 1 dollar it was trading at a year ago.
MIIF plunge from 76cents […]
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 […]
Dividend Screening Season!
I took a pretty long break from taking a look at dividend stocks but on this lazy day i somehow seem to think that i should start being more hardworking, else i may regret my decision.
Starting today, I hope to post some dividend alerts on my blog so that we can share whether these companies […]
Would you buy a bridge from this man?
By Fortune Magazine [October 2 2007]
Macquarie Bank has made infrastructure funds a smoking-hot investment class. But the way it finances its deals has short-sellers circling, writes Fortune’s Bethany McLean.
(Fortune Magazine) — "This is the greatest single financial coup in the history of Chicago." That’s how alderman Edward Burke, chairman of the city council’s finance committee, […]
Infrastructure Funds: Building on strong foundations
From the Financial Times [Thursday , March 13, 2008]
The appetite for infrastructure funds looks set to increase again this year
This year pension funds and other institutional investors allocate new or larger commitments to an asset class they see as delivering attractive, steady, inflation-adjusted returns over a long duration. The turbulence in equities market and the […]
Macquarie International Infrastructure: Scrip Dividend illustration
I give my thanks to Lion Investor to illustrate this example to everyone. What he focus on is the effect of scrip dividends on you as an investor and MIIF as a whole.
First, a recap of the default scenario.
Stock A has 10,000 shares in circulation and the net tangible assets of the company is $10,000. […]
Macquarie International Infrastructure: Attractive Dividend Yield
We just received our MIIF Annual Report. To be honest i have been looking forward to reading it since the presentation slides provided at SGX wasn’t revealing a whole lot of numbers.
Since hitting a high of 1.20, it has retreated to a low of 83 cents last week. In this itself, we can draw a […]
Is there any reason for the fall in high yielding dividend counters?
I know alot of folks are fans of high yielding stocks and are heavily vested in it. If you have notice recently, alot of these high yielders are falling like flies.
What happens in such a situation? the yield gets more attractive. some good examples are MIIF, Allco REIT, Cambridge REIT, Babcock & Brown.
So do they […]
