Byte Sized News Release: First REIT 2Q17 Financial Results First REIT has released their 2Q 2017 financial results on 17 Jul 17. The key highlights and corporate developments are as follows: DPU up 1.4% to 2.14 Singapore cents compared to 2.11 Singapore cents in 2Q 2016 Distribution to Unitholders rose

We apologise for the hiatus in our posts. In our last post in December 2016, we promised to expand our watchlist overseas while continuing to monitor and update our readers on the local stocks in our watchlist. We are delighted to say that we have lined up a series of

As 2016 comes to an end, the tempo at work starts to slow, festive lights lit up from every corner of Singapore, it’s time to take stock of what we had done for the year and set our goals for the next. We published a total of 25 articles spanning

The act of management using their own money to purchase shares from the open market is called insider trading. Insider Trading Insider trading can be both legal or illegal. The rule behind this is whether a trade was made with unfair advantage/knowledge. A trade is illegal if the management, or

Byte Sized News Release: Vicom reported a 7.8% drop in net profit for 3Q16 1. Revenue for the third quarter was $25.4 million, down 0.1% from the same quarter a year ago. Net profit attributable to shareholders also fell by 7.9% year-on-year to $6.7 million. Earnings per share was 7.67

Byte Sized News: First REIT expands asset base In Indonesia with acquisition in Labuan Bajo On 7 Nov 2016, Bowsprit Capital Corporation Limited announced that First REIT has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk, for the proposed acquisition

In our previous article, we shared that you could save between 24% – 89% of your tax paid by doing a CPF cash top up into you or your loved ones’ CPF Special Accounts (SA). Today, we shall explore the other effects of the cash top up into your CPF

This blog post is used to augment one of our previous blog as we did a comparison on how your CPF SA could be doubled if you could afford to contribute an additional $7,000 as CPF cash top up into your CPF SA. Here, we use Jack, our 28-year-old example, to

Byte Sized News Release: ST Engineering reports higher profits in 2Q2016 Key highlights Commercial sales constituted 65% or $1.1 billion of 2Q2016 revenue Order book of $11.6 billion at end June 2016, of which about $2.5 billion is expected to be delivered in the remaining months of 2016 Cash and

Slightly more than half the year has gone and it is about time to review my annual financial plan. This is usually the time to consider budgets, cashflow and some tax planning for the remaining months of the year. So recently, I made a trip to one of the CPF