29 October 2010

STI gained further ground in the month of October, even touched briefly the 3200 height. It finally closed at 3142.62. Compared with Septermber End, it rose 44.99 points, or by 1.45%. My portfolio value grew slightly better than STI. It rose by 1.68%, net of the funds injetted and dividend received.

I invested S$16,500 this month, which I used to buy K-Green, participated in the IPO of MIT and GLP, right issue and preferential offering of AscottReit, Mapletree Logistics Trust,AmpSampIReit, and Script Dividend Scheme of DBS.

I received S$900 in cash dividend and S$180 in SRS.

The top 30 holdings have little change, besides some position swopping. The only new comer is AscottReit. It replaces SingTel due to new buy in. Below are the top 30 holdings:

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

Comparing the top 30 holdings in October and the one in January, one can see that my portfolio is moving towards more defensive and dividend play, which is the direction I set for the year. Going forwards, I shall continue in this direction, as I have achieve the objective set for portfolio value for the year, and see a good chance in achieving the target set for dividend income.

Two Times Lucky in IPO Application

I am not particularly interested in IPO's, as I thought the chances of getting them is very low, but the GLP and MIT IPO's created so much talk in town that I decided to give them a try. No harm tikam tikam....

To my surprise, I was successful in both application. So now I have two more counters in addition to my already "messy" portfolio. :)

30 September 2010

Global equity had a good show in this month. One analyst said even this is the "best September since 1939". Unfortunately the advancing of stock prices lost steam in the last few days of the month. Though STI failed to end the month above the pschological 3,100 point, I should be satisfied with my portfolio performance in September.

All counters but 1 ended above or level last month-end. Portfolio value increase by 6.07%(net of dividend and fresh fund invested), compared to end of August. In the same period STI rose 4.99%. I received S$4,059 in cash dividend, which I reinvested. I topped up Metro Holdings, and bought into Cache Reit. I was also awarded some Cambridge shares through script dividend scheme. Besides the dividend, I invested another 5K.
Below are the top 30 holdings, not much change, only UE replaced AscottReit (swop position).

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

I have also applied for AscottReit Preferential shares and AimSampIReit rights shares. Next month I intend to participate in MLT Preferential shares issue and MIT and GIC IPO. Maybe worth to record is I applied for SIA bond also.