Following our earlier post on the 3 industries for long term investing where we spoke about how the e-commerce industry has a good chance of getting good investment returns, we would like to offer our perspective on another industry that we think would be growing for the next 10 – 20

  Vicom Limited (SGX: V01) announced their financial results for the year ended 31 Dec 15 on 4 Feb 16, after trading hours. Before we break down Vicom’s financial results, let’s take a quick look at what Vicom does. VICOM Limited is a holding company with 2 main business segments.

ARA Asset Management Limited (ARA) announced their financial results for the year ended 31 Dec 15 on 4 Feb 16, after trading hours. Here are 6 points to note for its FY15 results. Full year revenue dropped 10% from S$173 million in FY14 to S$156 million in FY15. However full

Stock picking has never been easy. Picking the right industry is one of the factors that will make an impact to your returns. Look at what is happening to oil prices and its effects on related industries. Look at how shipping companies have been affected by the shipping industry. How Trend

First REIT recently released the results of the EGM that was held on 29 Dec 2015. The resolution was to seek shareholder’s approval of the proposed asset swap of Siloam Hospital Surabaya (SHS) with an interested person (Lippo Karawaci, First REIT’s sponsor). 98.26% voted for the resolution. It was quite

ARA Asset Management Limited (ARA) announced on 11 Nov 15 a rights issuance (click here to find out more on rights issuance). It will issue a total of 152,127,196 shares based on 845,151,093 total outstanding shares. What it mean to shareholders is that for every 100 shares he owns, he is entitled

In Part 1 of the mini-series, we showed the power of exponential compounding returns. Today, let me show you an example of how time plays a big factor to compounding and why you should start investing early, even when you are an employee, to reap this benefit . Starting early

In the previous articles on “Why you should invest”, we explained in detail why investing is the best hedge against inflation, increases your earnings without incurring tax, and continues to earn well after you stopped working. In this mini-series, let me share with you why you should start investing early,

Previously, we talked about share buybacks. This occurs when management uses its own company’s cash to repurchase its shares from the open market. If the CEO/directors used their OWN money to repurchase stocks of their own company from the open market, what would you think of the stock? Below is

Some days back, I wrote an article on using share buybacks as references to capitalize on stock market crashes. So what is share buybacks? Also known as “share repurchases”, share buybacks occurs when a listed company buys its own shares from the stock market. You can see it as the company re-investing into itself. When