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

Byte Sized News Release: Vicom reported a 12.6% drop in net profit for 2Q16 On 10 Aug 16, Vicom Limited (SGX: V01) released its second-quarter earnings. The reporting period was for 1 April 2016 to 30 June 2016. Revenue for the second quarter was $25.4 million, down 6.9% from the

Byte Sized News Release: ARA posts 1H16 net profit of S$38.7 million ARA Asset Management Limited (ARA) is reported total revenue of S$81.6 million and net profit of S$38.7 million for the quarter ended 30 Jun 16. Recurrent management fees for 1H16 grew strongly by 10% to S$68 million, underpinned