30 June 2014

School holidays plus football world cup, the result is a sleepy market. STI retreated in quiet market for the month, due to tensions in Iraq and Eastern Europe. STI ended for the first half of the year at 3255.67, dropped 1.22% or 40.18 points compared to last month.

Surprisingly, my portfolio performed much better than the STI. Its value dropped only 0.04% in the month, thanks to some defensive counters.

I did not make any purchase from open market this month, but received some shares from MapletreeLog Trust, Mapletree Industrial Trust, Cambridge Trust, DBS and OCBC Bank via Scrip Dividend Scheme. I sold all my Pteris this month. This has been one of the non-performing stocks in my portfolio without dividend. So when they announced the consolidation of the shares, I decided to part with the shares.  As a result of the sales there was a negative investment this month.

For the first half of the year, STI rose 2.79%. My portfolio value rose 3.92% (portfolio value minus fund injected last 6 months), slightly better.

Total dividend collected this month was S$6,866.00 from shares and UT. Below are the top 30 holdings as at 30 June 2014. There isn't much change in the list, lest some position swops, which reflects the quietness of the stock market.

1. SPH
2. ComfortDelGro
3. DBS
4. SP Ausnet
5. OCBC
6. SembCorp Ind
7. ST Engineering
8. Starhub
9. Metro
10. Frasers Comm Tr
11. SGX
12. CapitaLand
13. CapitaComm Tr
14. CitySpring Tr
15 AIMSAMP Cap Reit
16 SembCorp Marine
17. Nikko AM STI ETF 100
18. United Engineers
19. Lippo Malls Tr
20. Keppel Corp
21. Ascendas Reit
22. Sing Inv & Fin
23. Mapletree Log Tr
24. Global Inv
25. SATS
26 YZJ Shipbldg SGD
27 Pan United
28. SingTel
29 Sabana Reit
30 SIA