Rich Dad Series 360x285 - Book To Read: Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
Books to Read

In our previous book review, we shared Peter Lynch’s One Up on Wall Street. Today, we decided to review one of the most influential personal finance book of all time. Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert Kiyosaki, is about defining how you generate money through self-awareness and action. It examines

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Vicom logo 360x139 - A deeper dive into Vicom’s fundamentals
Analysis

Previously we blogged about Vicom Limited’s 2015 full year financial report. At the end of the blog, we highlighted that we would be diving deeper into the fundamentals of Vicom. Vicom has two major operating segments, vehicle inspection and non-vehicle inspection operations. As the non-vehicle inspection segment is highly fragmented

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Part 2 360x82 - 3 Industries for Long Term Investing: Part 2 (Rail)
Stocks

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

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vicom 1 360x67 - 5 Interesting Pointers to note for Vicom Limited 2015 Full Year Report
Analysis

  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.

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cover e1454755140510 360x226 - 6 points to note from ARA Asset Management’s 2015 Full Year Report.
Analysis

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

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title 360x83 - 3 Industries for Long Term Investing: Part 1 (E-commerce)
Analysis

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

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EGM1 360x258 -  5 things I learned at First REIT's EGM
AnalysisNewsStocks

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

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timthumb 360x195 - What does ARA Rights Issue means to you
AnalysisNewsStocks

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

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medium 360x217 - Why you should start investing, even as an employee [Part 2]
Stocks

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

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2 360x267 - Why you should start investing, even as an employee
Stocks

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,

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