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I always had one eye on Asian Pay Television Trust (APTT). So did some of my friends. It is the ultimate Financial Independence Porn Stock. Why is this so? To find out how much you need for financial security, or financial independence or retirement, you can read my article here to determine your number. From […]
One of the most traumatizing experience for shareholders of Keppel KBS REIT was the announcement of the acquisition of Westpark Portfolio in Redmond. Keppel KBS is a Singapore listed real estate investment trust (REIT) which owns 11 office assets in 7 key regional markets in the USA. Westpark is a portfolio of 21 buildings located […]
DIYInsurance last week became MoneyOwl. Business Times and Straits Times ran 2 brief articles that introduced MoneyOwl to the masses. However, they cannot go deep in depth about the products and services MoneyOwl that you can tap upon. So over the course of the next few months, I will let readers know what are offered, […]
Suze Orman is making a comeback. And the first thing that she did was to get on a Financial Independence podcast and tells the whole world why she hated it. That podcast really got a lot of traffic for the host, and even a few national newspaper wrote about it. As a part time marketer, […]
In October, I went through the thought process of going through what are some of the considerations that we would consider in the financial planner or firm we would like to hire. You can read the article here. I ended off by requesting you guys to help me do a survey and some of you […]
4 years ago, I came across some articles on different kind of retirement spending. It is also the time when we started hearing about the 4% safe withdrawal rate. And thus I got curious how robust is it for us to spend 4% of our wealth accumulated, and then consistently increase the spending based on […]
Here is a higher yielding, safe way to save your money that you have no idea when you will need to use it, or your emergency fund. The December 2018’s SSB bonds yield an interest rate of 2.57%/yr for the next 10 years. You can apply through ATM or Internet Banking via the three banks […]
Singapore listed Frasers Logistics and Industrial Trust (FLT) yesterday evening made an announcement that they will acquire a logistic property from parent Frasers Property Limited (FPL). The acquisition should be part of the portfolio that FPL acquired a year ago. Perhaps the property have not stabilized to be acquired during FLT’s last round of acquisition […]
You should do both. But then if that is my answer there would be nothing to write about. I received this question from a reader that I thought its intriguing enough to answer. The reader has been reading this blog for 1 year. She has started investing in ETFs 3 years ago and this year […]
In August, I wrote my review of what I could gather about the REIT Manulife US REIT. You can read it here. In the article, there were some questions, that I could not figure out on my own. So the folks at Manulife US REIT reached out and I thought I will try to clarify […]
