It’s been a tradition for me to journal my birthday every year to see where I am coming up short at so I can plan on something to patch up if necessary. This year is no different and the first thing when I woke up this morning, I was greeted by a lovely birthday kiss…
Month: August 2018
How Much Budget Do We Allocate For The Weekends?
It’s been a while since the last time I wrote something about personal finance so I think it’s an appropriate time to revisit. The budgeting concept has been very strictly enforced in my wife and I practice as we know the inportance of keeping things tight within the household budget. The idea is to review…
Recent Action – Sasseur Reit
I managed to squeeze in another purchase this month by accumulating a new Reit in my portfolio, with the addition of Sasseur Reit which I purchased for $0.705 today. The idea bends well with the objective of the portfolio, which is to go in the direction of more to the yield over time. Sasseur Reit…
“Aug 18″ – SG Transactions & Portfolio Update”
No. Counters No. of Shares Market Price (SGD) Total Value (SGD) based on market price Allocation % 1. Vicom 28,300 6.17 167,400.00 25.0% 2. Singtel 46,000 3.11 143,060.00 18.0% 3. Frasers Logistic Trust 126,000 1.07 134,820.00 20.0% 4. M1 75,000 1.59 119,250.00 18.0% 5. Starhill Reit 100,000 0.68 68,000.00 10.0% 6. Far East Hospitality…
Upping Your Game Level – With Margin Financing and CFD
In the spirit of supporting my good friend’s Chris in his next upcoming talk on achieving financial independence with Reits, I have decided to do a blogpost on it which I’ve been wanting to do it but have very little time and interests in the past to do it. If you still have not registered…
Dividend Income Updates – Q3 FY2018
I am writing this dividend update in an attempt to compile my quarterly dividend performance for the year. The theme for this year dividend income updates will be based on my understanding of the advantage of dividend investing and that is to compound dividends for as early as we can, for as long as we…
How Do You Negotiate Your Next Pay Rise?
As a minor retail investor like myself, income has always been an important determinant over the years as part of our capital size on top of the other factors such as savings rate and capital allocation. It is therefore important that we do equally well in our human capital ability and measure it the same…