Category: Finance

Is Investing an Art or a Science?

Is investing an art of a science? The short answer to this question would be both. If your investment approach is using fundamental analysis, you would need to read financial statements, know your ratios for example, ROE, gross margin, net margin, P/E, P/B etc. If your investment approach is using technical analysis, you would need …

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Professional Trading Strategies Seminar by CK Ee on 5 Nov 2016

I summarised some of the main points from the seminar by CK Ee. He mentioned that we need to understand that: We don’t trade the market. We trade or invest based on our beliefs. We should not listen to news too much when doing our investment. Just treat news as entertainment. Investing is a skill …

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How to Look for Investment Red Flags

How do we look for investment red flags? When we are doing company analysis, we want to pick the great stock that would help our money grow for us. This also means we need to know what companies we should not pick – those fraudulent companies or companies going downhill and moving towards bankruptcy. The …

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SGX APAC Dividend Leaders REIT ETF issued by Phillip Capital

There are a total of 30 REITS in Singapore over different sectors: retail, industrial, office and healthcare. For many retail investors like myself, it’s difficult to select if we can just choose two or three REITs. Having limited knowledge of picking the correct REIT in the sector we want to focus on and with our limited …

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Factor-based Investing

Ever heard of factor-based investing? This is new to me too, which arouse my curiosity to attend the seminar Profit Mastery Seminar 2 on 23 October 2016, to find out more. Profit Mastery Seminar 2 Factor-based investing is based on the concepts of investing by focusing on certain criteria called factors. Alvin Chow of BigFatPurse …

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