31 August 2010

Despite the good results reported by most of the listed companies, stock market did not perform well in August. This was largely due to the uncertainty in US, caused by bad numbers in housing market and unemployment rate. In fact the good corporate performance locally helped to keep the drop in check.

My portfolio under perform the STI in August. While STI dropped 1.25% to 2,950.33 point, my portfolio, net of fresh fund injected, dropped 2.33%. I bought into CWT, Stamford Land and K-Green this month.

On the dividend side, I received S$4,658 in cash and 780 in CPF-OA. Below are the top 30 holdings as at 31 August.

1.   SPH
2.   OCBC Bk
3.   ComfortDelGro
4.   Semb Corp
5.   DBS
6.   ST Engineering
7.   F & N
8.   SIA
9.   SP AusNet
10. Starhub
11. CapitaLand
12. CitySpring
13. SGX
14. SATS
15. SembMar
16. CoscoCorp
17. FraserComm
18. DBS STI ETF 100
19. Kep Corp
20. CapitaComm
21. Yangzijiang
22. MacqIntInfra
23. Noble Group
24. FrasersCT
25. KS Energy
26. MetroHldg
27. MapletreeLog
28. SingTel
29. SuntecReit
30. AscottReit

There was not much change in the top holdings. UE was replaced by SuntecReit. UE now stood at 31st position.
 
Going forwards, if the market continues to move side way, I will try to build up my cash position and wait for good opportunities to further expand my portfolio. One opportunity is the rights issue from AIMSAMPIREIT. I plan to participate and apply for excess rights to build up this counter.

30 July 2010

To a trader, the month of July might have been a boring month. Stock market was quite "quiet", trading volume has been low the whole month. Many blamed it on the football world cup. Personally I don't mind a month like this. STI has been cripping higher slowly amid the low trading volume.

Throughout the whole month, STI moved up 152.19 points, or 5.37%. My portfolio moved almost inline with STI, up 6.25%. The higher percentage was due to new investment. I participated in DBS script dividend scheme, exercise warrants of Metro, and topped up Noble Group.

No other dividend except DBS was received this month. Below are the top 30 holdings as at 30 Jul 2010. There is very little change except Noble replaced SMRT, due to new purchase of the shares.

1.   SPH
2.   OCBC Bk
3.   ComfortDelGro
4.   DBS
5.   Semb Corp
6.   ST Engineering
7.   F & N
8.   SIA
9.   SP AusNet
10. CitySpring
11. CapitaLand
12. Starhub
13. SGX
14. SAT Svcs
15. SembMar
16. CoscoCorp
17. FraserComm
18. Kep Corp
19. DBS STI ETF 100
20. Noble Group
21. MacqIntInfra
22. CapitaComm
23. Yangzijiang
24. KS Energy
25. FrasersCT
26. MetroHldg
27. MapletreeLog
28. SingTel
29. AscottReit
30. UE

30 June2010

From the big drop in May, market faired better in June. The upside was limited by the uncertainty in the US and European recovery, and by the Football World Cup tournament in South Africa. STI closed at 2835.51, up 2.92% from end of May.

My portfolio under performed the market this month. The value rose 2.6%, but this included the fund (S$5400) invested in the month. I receive S$3041 in cash dividend, which I re-invested in the market in the form of script dividend scheme (OCBC, Cambridge)or top-up(Pan United). I also received 400 K-Green Trust shares from KepCorp.

Below are the top 30 holding as at 30 June. Interestingly, this is the first time when there was no change in the list, lest some positional changes.

1.   SPH
2.   OCBC Bk
3.   ComfortDelGro
4.   DBS
5.   Semb Corp
6.   ST Engineering
7.   F & N
8.   SIA
9.   SP AusNet
10. CitySpring
11. Starhub
12. SGX
13. CapitaLand
14. SembMar
15. SAT Svcs
16. FraserComm
17. CoscoCorp
18. Kep Corp
19. DBS STI ETF 100
20. MacqIntInfra
21. CapitaComm
22. KS Energy
23. Yangzijiang
24. FrasersCT
25. MapletreeLog
26. SingTel
27. MetroHldg
28. AscottReit
29. SMRT
30. UE