Podcast: Mad Money Machine
on Nov 16, 2009 in Investment Introducing another podcast I listen to. A index fund investor but what interests me is the news and tools introduced on the show.For example, Icarra which is a free portfolio tracker. It also allows comparison with other portfolio or stocks.The rece...

Some updates to Furniture Sector
on Nov 16, 2009 in Cacola Investment Koda Some updates to furniture sectors, probably missed out HTL International news since it was quite a while ago. I am pretty much full invested and no looking into any stock till I get the cash back from the delisting Iconic and Full Apex.Lee Wen Ching(...

Opening UOB KayHian and U-plus
on Nov 12, 2009 in Investment I opened a saving/statement account with UOB to allow the refund of the NETS Flashpay cards on hands. This will means another $500 average balance needed besides the $500 also for the POSB account. I will just treat then as emergency funds although t...

Delisting Company: Full Apex (FAP)
on Nov 9, 2009 in Full Apex Delist Another company delisting, this time it is a packaging company, Full Apex. I wonder if it is the season of delisting or just because that I started to track them for delist in SGX news.Regardless, the cash offer is at $0.18 per share. Last trade pric...

NETS Flashpay
on Nov 9, 2009 in Thoughts I just bought "several" more NETS FlashPay after finding out from a friend that UOB allow refunding of the card. This implied that technically, u can immediately get the extra $2 by just buying and refunding the card. I shall not show the calculation...

Bought eleven $10 Nets Flashpay card
on Nov 5, 2009 in Thoughts I decided to get lots of Net Flashpay card after hearing a friend tell me about the offer they are giving. Basically, you get $17 card value for paying $15 in a Net Flashpay card at the kiosk.Profit Margin = 2/15 = 13.3%However, the slow processing o...

Memstar Awarded RMB$60m Contract
on Nov 3, 2009 in Memstar Investment I should probably read more about Memstar, a water treatment company since it got some deals with government. However, time do not permit me to spend time with studying so I just get updated with its news.Memstar is awarded RMB$60m contract to supply...

Suze Orman Show
on Nov 2, 2009I love to listen to podcasts to get information while doing other stuffs. One financial podcast I listen is "The Suze Orman Show". It is also showing in CNBC, but is available for download too as a podcast. The show is mostly focus on personal financ...

Cacola Update
on Oct 29, 2009 in Cacola Investment Cacola has brought forward the hearing of the winding up against subsidiary to 19th December 2009. SGX Reference...

Comparing STI ETF
on Oct 29, 2009 in Investment Benchmarking with STI ETF is good because a) it is diversifiedb) if you do worse than the index, you can switch to it easily since it is traded like stockThere are currently 2 listed STI ETF available, so you still need to choose. They are:DBS Singap...