Enjoying the present - Good buy or goodbye?

Not talking about bonds or ipo or stocks today. I'm not just an engineer, I'm also a poet and an artist and a philosopher. Let's talk about life. Everyday, I wake up, have breakfast then go to work. While working, I think of lunch and what to eat. After lunch, I go back to work again. In the meantime, I look forward to the end of the work day, where I go home and have dinner. After that, I watch some youtube videos (nobody watch tv nowadays) and...

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Jumbo Group IPO - Good buy or Goodbye?

Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out more about Jumbo Group Limited IPO. This is the group that is famous for their Jumbo Seafood and their signature Jumbo chilli crab, black pepper crab, salted egg golden prawns and crispy baby squids. They have restaurants under the Jumbo seafood brand in Singapore and PRC too. Besides this, they also have JPOT, Ng Ah Sio Bak Kut Teh, Chui Huay Lim Teochew Cruisine, J cafe, Yoshimaru Ramen Bar, as well as Singapore...

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Another pref shares bites the dust..

Just received word that the OCBC Bk 4.2% NCPS preference share is going to be fully redeemed. That is very bad news. As it is now, there's not a lot of preference shares by the banks listed in at SGX, and yet one by one those good ones are redeemed. There used to be UOB's preference shares too, but that is gone by the wind too. Now, there's just the preference shares by CityDev, Hyflux, another OCBC 5.1%, DBS 4.7%, Fibrechem and lastly United engineers. OCBC...

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Oxley 5% bond - Good buy or Goodbye?

I realised that my bond articles are quite widely read. It was quite shocking to see that all my highest read post are bonds - Aspial, Perennial, Frasers, hyflux pref shares (kind of a bond) etc - all of them are up there in the highest number of pageviews throughout the entire history of nearly 10 yrs,  So let me say this in the clearest way possible. You don't just read what others write about bonds and then you decide whether you want to...

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Sneak preview: Oxley 5% bond, 4 yrs maturity

The local retail bonds scene is bursting with action this year with so many choices for people to invest in. I think it must have something to do with the ssb savings bond or the impending rate hike. Suddenly everyone is rushing to build up their cash reserves before something happened. There's Frasers 7 years @ 3.65% in May this year, Aspial 5 years @ 5.25% around August, and Perennial 3 yrs @ 4.65% which haven't even finish completing their ipo...

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Perennial Real Estate 4.65% bond - Good buy or Goodbye?

Perennial Real Estate Holdings is launching their first retail bond. It's a 3 year bond paying 4.65% pa, payable semi-annually and with a min amount of $2k. Is it good buy or good bye? Beautiful name, this perennial word. Perennial means lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring. Unfortunately, the word perennial for this company refers to the hope that it'll last forever and not a fact of...

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Frugality isn't just about saving money

Frugality isn't just about saving money. This article here says exactly what I'm thinking. To me, frugality is about being efficient, which means you spend the right amount of energy, time and money without wastage. And efficiency varies according to the different life stage that you're in. For example, when I was a student with very little pocket money to spare, I'll go all the way to some cheap bargain sales at Peninsula Plaza to buy a pair...

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For the Advanced Croesus Rights players

Alright, now that you've read the basics here, you can progress to more advanced stuff. Nicholas Nasim Taleb (NNT) is my favourite modern philosopher and it's a good thing that he dabbles in the market too. His concept about antifragility - to make it out better when crisis strikes and not merely to survive it - is enlightening. So with regards to the rights exercise of Croesus Retail trust, how do we best capitalise on this? First, you need...

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For the Casual Croesus Rights players

Croesus retail trust is doing a rights exercise. The mother shares just went XR last Fri and I thought I should highlight the important points to remind myself to take action. I always remember someone losing a huge amount on rights exercise in the past because of some misunderstanding. I hope this won't happen to any holders of Croesus. Here's the details from here: The most important dates are the trading of rights entitlements, otherwise...

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