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 […]


Do small caps take a bigger thrashing?

Not necessarily, shows a study of SGX-listed companies
By TEH HOOI LING
SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
THE stock market has been pummelled in the past 10 months. Compared with October last year, $180 billion has evaporated from the market value of Singapore-listed companies.

Globally, about US$13 trillion has been wiped out - which is almost America’s gross domestic product for […]


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: 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 […]