30 November 2012

The month November started with stock prices plunging after the US presidential election. The fear of fiscal cliff send the global stock prices south. Market somehow stablizes toward the end of the month with the hope of politicians finding a compromise for it. The "Olam - Muddy water" did not have big effect on other counters. At the end of the month, STI recovered the lost ground and ended 1.04% higher than last month. My portfolio did not do as well, rose just 0.67% in the month.

I bought some Sembmarine shares this month when its price dropped. I subscribed to Sing Inv's rights issue.
Going forward I will still hold on to the same strategy and continue to seek investment opportunities. I received a total of S$6,600 in dividend.

Below are the top 30 holdings as at 30 November. NOt much changes happened. SingInv and Sembmarine moved up due to buy-in. Transpac dropped off the list due to Ex D, and Ex Entitlement.

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

31 October 20

At the beginning of October, someone speculated if there would bea big plunge of share prices in this month, as there had been similar incidents in October in the history. Fortunately, nothing serious happened. This October was a quite month for equity market. Investors may be waiting for the result of US presidential election. Daily price movement of stock prices has been slow. At the end of the month, STI dropped 22 points (0.72) to end at 3038.37.

My portfolio did slightly better. Its value rose 0.25% in the month. I didn't buy any stock as I was busy with my work (perhaps also waiting at the sideline). I subscribed to the right issues of Raffles Education and Sing Investment). I did not participate in the IPOs this month. I received a total of S$3,715 dividend income.

Going forward, I will continue to build up my cash portion and look for good investment opportunities. Waiting may be the game plan at this moment.

Below are the top 30 holding as at 31 October 2012. Not much movement in there, except at thebottom of the table. Yangzijiang dropped off due to price drop, Sing Inv price dropped after XR. This two were replaced by Transpac and Cambridge.

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