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Byte Sized Investments believes that financial independence and freedom can be achieved through a prudence, systematic and disciplined capital allocation plan. We believe that financial freedom can be achieved as an employee.

We hope that our sharing will help our readers grow to achieve financial freedom.

Rising Interest Rate
NewsReal Estate

Higher For Longer. That is what Global Central Banks are signalling. Why? Because the Fed’s inflation target is 2%. And we are not there yet. There is no reason for them to drop interest rates when inflation is still relatively high. And if the Central Banks & the Federal Reserve

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A person enjoying a holiday at a nice place, living dream life by doing this ONE thing to retire earlier and live your dream life!
Money Management

Would you like to wake up anytime, travel anywhere and do whatever you want without worrying about work? Sounds like a dream right? How can you make it a reality? What’s stopping us from quitting working hard for money, achieving financial independence and go live our dream life? Find out

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Crash, Recession, Depression, Financial, Stocks, Shares
AnalysisNews

Inflation, War, Market Crashes! Financial Assets such as stocks and crypto-currency have seen massive loss of valuations. Even commodities and gold, which are usually negatively correlated, were not spared! Are we heading towards a long and deep recession? We all know that the economy moves in cycles, sometimes predictably, sometimes

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CPF SA, CPF LIFE, ERS, FRS, BRS
AnalysisMoney Management

In this short article, we will share 1 method you can do from now till age 55 in order to maximise your CPF. We will then share what you can do from 55-65 years old to maximise your retirement nest. We provided some numbers to substantiate our beliefs. Here’s 2

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CPF Life1 360x424 - Your Bite-Sized Guide to CPF LIFE
Money Management

In our bite-sized guide to CPF LIFE, we will introduce what CPF LIFE is about. In the following article, we will share how you can maximise it to your advantage. So what is CPF LIFE? The LIFE in CPF LIFE stands for Lifelong Income For the Elderly. It works like

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Vicom, SETSCO, Inspection, Car
AnalysisStocks

Byte Sized News Release: Vicom Ltd’s Q2 profit down 8.3% to S$6.07m Vicom Ltd has recently released its 2nd quarter’s financial statement on 7 August 2017. Revenue was down to S$24.1 million (S$25.4 million in 2Q 2016), translating to a 5.2% decline. Net profit dropped 8.3% year-on-year to S$6.1 million. Its

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MTR, Hong Kong, Transport, Rail, Metro, trains
AnalysisStocks

In our previous blog post, we shared that MTR Corp is the world’s most profitable metro/railway operator in the world and spoke about the revenue and recurrent business profit growth. We also shared broadly on its business segments, mainly Hong Kong’s Transport Operations, Hong Kong’s Property and its International Operations.

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First REIT, Siloam Hospitals Buton, acquisition, Lippo Plaza Buton, DPU
News

Byte Sized News: First REIT Strengthens Portfolio With Acquisition In Strategically-Located Port City On Buton Island, Indonesia On 20 July 2017, the manager of First REIT announced that First REIT would be acquiring Siloam Hospitals Buton (SHBN) and a mall, Lippo Plaza Buton (LPB) for a combined S$28.5 million (subjected

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First REIT, Dividend growth
News

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

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MTR20Logo1 360x109 - MTR Corp Ltd (Analysis)
AnalysisStocks

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

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