Performance Indicators / Dividends YTD Time weighted return: 7.37% Dividends collected: SGD 1,065.56 Cum-Dividend: Keppel Corp: SGD 195 DBS: SGD 60 Hang Lung Properties: HKD 1,160 Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure: HKD 1,440 V-shape recovery continues For the first time, my portfolio crossed the 150k value mark, which is awesome. Broadly speaking, the market continued … [Read more...] about Portfolio @ February 2019
Archives for February 2019
Highlights from Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Letter 2018
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, released his annual letter to shareholders yesterday evening. People in the investment world would know that this annual letter summarises Berkshire's financial performance for 2018 and usually contains nuggets of investing wisdom. The letter was so influential that before the advent of the Internet, professional money … [Read more...] about Highlights from Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Letter 2018
What Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure can tell us about the Chinese economy
I've held Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure Ltd (YTI) (HK:1052) shares for about half a year now as a "getting to know you" kind of position. While its financial results have been impressive, I sized the position relatively small as it is a China "Red Chip" (Overseas incorporated GLC) and I wasn't too sure about management. After going through 2 reporting periods of results, I … [Read more...] about What Yuexiu Transport Infrastructure can tell us about the Chinese economy
Start building your own Dividend Machines in 2019
At Risk N Returns, I believe in promoting sensible DIY investing through the sharing of ideas or leading by example in managing my personal portfolio. That said, I recognise that reading a weekly article about investing does not inform you enough about taking charge of your own journey to financial freedom. As such, today I'll be presenting to you a course that I've … [Read more...] about Start building your own Dividend Machines in 2019
SingTel Q3 FY2019 Results Highlights
Singapore Telecommunications released their latest quarter results recently. Here are some highlights: All information are sourced from SingTel's latest quarter presentation and transcript here. 1. Operating revenue increases 1% year on year, all other P&L metrics continue to face pressure Makes for grim reading but nothing unexpected. 2. Free Cash Flow declines 10% … [Read more...] about SingTel Q3 FY2019 Results Highlights
My thought process in selecting my Masters programme
I'm well into my 6th year in my career and unbeknownst to readers, I've been thinking of going back to school to upgrade and specialise my skill set over the past year. The whole thought experiment culminated recently when I accepted a place in a part-time Masters of Science in Accounting (Data & Analytics) (MSA) programme at SMU. As such, it felt like a decent time … [Read more...] about My thought process in selecting my Masters programme
Risk N Returns 2.0 Beta
Welcome to my "new" blog! It's been a busy couple of days. Between visiting relatives and working on migrating my blog from Wordpress.com to self-hosting, it's been hectic. I'm proud to say I've mostly successfully migrated my blog to self-hosting (as you can see). The process was confusing at times for someone who doesn't know much about building websites and coding, but … [Read more...] about Risk N Returns 2.0 Beta
Singapore Savings Bonds (SSBs) Guide
At Risk N Returns, I'm passionate about promoting sensible DIY investing through sharing my thoughts or documenting my investing journey. While I love to take calculated risks, I recognise that most Singaporeans don't. So here's a relatively risk free way to invest your warchest or emergency funds with almost no lock-up period and generally higher yields than fixed deposits … [Read more...] about Singapore Savings Bonds (SSBs) Guide