One of the most favourite pastimes for economists, analysts and investors alike in the early part of the year is to make market prediction on where the stock market will be heading. Ipsos Global ran a similar survey and research report on the outlook of 2023, including where the economy and stock market is heading…
Jan 2023 – Portfolio Transactions & Update
The first month of the New Year always brings excitement to investors and this year is no different. The stock market has been doing so well and going so smoothly this year so far that it seems like most of us have forgotten what a difficult year last year was. I was checking my brokerage…
Ryan Cohen Builds Alibaba Stake and Pushes for More Share Buyback
There was a time last year when one bad news after another just kept getting into Chinese stocks – in particular Alibaba and the media could not stop heaping onto it. This year, it was the opposite, although I can’t help but feel the media was sensationalising the news a bit too much attention. Ryan…
Why It Is So Difficult to Build Wealth by Shorting a Stock?
The fundamental idea behind shorting a stock is to predict on a stock’s downtrend movement and profit from it. If we were to implement this strategy last year, we would have made lots of money from it as the global market plummeted from the fear of rising inflation and interest rates. Surely, it’s a no…
3Fs CPF Review 2022 | FRS Target In Sight 2023
First order of the day in the New Year is to quickly check how far away or close you are from the Full Retirement Sum (FRS) goal after the interests for the year have been credited. The FRS is the gold standard meant to safeguard our retirement and is the maximum amount that would be…
3Fs Portfolio and TWRR Review – 2022
I’m going to round up the year by reviewing the 2022 year-end portfolio which the market happened to close last night with all but sums up how this year went. This year has been a bumper to many people, with most taking the hit from the drawdown effect of the massive tech companies run in…
Dec 2022 – Portfolio Transactions & Update
I thought I’ll do a quick update to the portfolio since there was some very small addition to the portfolio this month (which actually barely move the needle) after coming back from a 3.5 weeks break. My trip to both UAE and Europe were very fruitful as our family get to experience many things while…
Tencent Holdings Ltd (HKG: 0700) – Dishing Out Another Special Dividend This Quarter
I wanted to quickly run through my thoughts on the Tencent latest Q3 earnings announced yesterday. First up, operating metrics MAU is still up year on year and quarter on quarter for both Weixin + Wechat as well as Mobile QQ but as you can see, they are approaching the matured 1.3b numbers so inevitably…
Investing For Future Growth: UOBAM Ping An ChiNext ETF
A new ETF comprising fast-growing China enterprises will be listed on SGX. In an environment today where it has become increasingly difficult to invest, the attributes of an exchange-traded fund stand out: low fees, lower beta risk, diversified portfolio, and trading flexibility. As a quick background, the ChiNext Market was inaugurated in Shenzhen on the…