29 February 2012

Sign of US economy recovery, and reaching of solution to European Crisis help to lift market sentiment in the month of February. Though some analyst continued to warn that the European crisis was far from over. Other world issues like the Iranian stopping the oil export to some European countries were not severe enough to rock the market, at least for now.

Global stock market continue to trend upwards, with DJ closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008 financial crisis. STI touched 3000 level in the middle of the month but failed to stay at it at month end. STI closed at 2994.06 today, up 3% from last month. My portfolio value increased by 4.63% in this month.

I bought Transpac shares this month, triggered by the annoucement from the company to issue 1 bonus share for every 3 shares held, and I don't want to hold odd lot. Anyway this counter has been generous in dividend payout and the shares in hand are almost FOC.

I received a total of S$4,734 in dividend this month. Below are the top 30 holdings as at today. Some changes due to price fluctuation. SingTel and KS Energy were replaced by Yangzijiang and AscottReit.

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

I don't quite understand the price movement of Yanzijiang and COSCO. There were many reports saying the shipping industry is not doing well and will face more challenge. NOL even reported RED in their numbers. HOwever these 2 counters have moved up recently. Strange....

31 January 2012

The year 2012 started with most of the analysts predicting that the economy would not do well and the market continue its downtrend. But the market did very well in January. Though the European crisis still has not see its end, some positive news from US lifted the market. STI rose 260 points (almost 10%) in the month to end above 2906. My portfolio rose slightly less, only 7.5% this month.

I did not do very much in share market this month. That was because I use some cash to buy into 2 bond fund and participated in the CMA Bond IPO. These actions drained my cash position so I did not buy any share this month. I received S$365 in dividend this month.

going forward, I will focus on blue chip with good dividend payout and REITs that are performing well.

Below are the top 30 holdings as at 31 Jan 2012. O&G and Shipping shares rose, Cosco came back to the list again and Sembmarine rose a few position.

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

30 December 2011

December has been a quiet month for stock market as many are on holiday. the usual Christmas rally didn't happen, and ST index dropped another 2% in the month to end at 2646. My portfolio value dropped 1.9% in the same period, almost in line with STI.

The Straits Time said on weekend that the stock market fell 17% for the whole year of 2011. My portfolio did slightly better, cushioned by the dividend income.

I did not do much in the month. I Topped up SGX and AscendasReit towards the end of the month when their prices dropped. I received S$6,700 of dividend this month. Total dividend received exceeded my target of S$50K, but since the porfolio value dropped more than that, the net return was still negative.

Below are the top 30 holdings. Not much changes occur, except AscendasReit replace Cosco, due to new buy-in.

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