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Unique s-REIT: the many untold stories about Saizen REIT

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I think one of the largest shareholder of Saizen Reit (Argyle Street Management) is wrong in their opinion.  They lobbied for the management in the recently completed AGM, to disperse Saizen Reit’s huge cash reserves as dividend to “enhance” share holder’s value. The full write up on Strait Times can be found below. I don’t…

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What should I do with my counter with 70% paper lost?!

No body likes to be holding on to losing stocks. Those are hard earn money, but unfortunately it is part and parcel of stock investment. Even the best investor will get surprised once in a while. The more important question is what are you going to do about it. Will you shun the stock market…

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How to build your own Value Investing portfolio

A week ago I was invited to a Value Investing Sharing Session by Aggregate Asset Management (AAM). They are a local boutique fund management company specializing in value investing. Their flagship fund, the Aggregate Value Fund, does not charge annual management fees and clients only pay performance fees for absolute returns. I find this very refreshing because they really structure the fund…

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Review of Jeff and Kane’s Industry Rockstars preview

As part of my entrepreneurial learning journey, I went to the 2 days free preview and was quite impressed with the content and more importantly they seems quite sincere in trying to help you.  The event is not all about sales as both of them offer quite a bit of good content. Great for anyone who is thinking…

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Lippo Mall REIT giving 6.7% yield. Buy or Bye?

My criteria to REIT selection: Dividend yield > 6% This is main reason why we invest in REIT. When doing my homework, I don’t expect the price of the shares to go up. I am more concern about the under lying assets that the REIT holds. Price to NAV < 0.7 The primary value of a REIT…

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Jim Rogers’s view on Euro, Gold, China and Commodity at Shares Investment Conference. Part 1

Long China/Asia, short US! That is the one liner take away from the Shares Investment Conference 2012 where Jim Rogers, Mike Bellafiore (Partner and co-founder of SMB Capital) and Avtar Sandu (Commodities expert with Philip futures) shared openly on their take of current macro economic situation and how one should invest in the coming years. This is part one…

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