Portfolio Update July 2017

I left my job at the end of last month planning to retire, but my boss offered me a part time job so I decided to go into semi-retirement. Starting from the month of July, I officially work only 2 1/2 days a week, and spend the rest of my time engaging with my hobbies and church. Ironically, I became even busier after the switch, so much so that I cannot update this blog on time. My apology.

My new office has very strict IT security policy, so I could not visit this blog during office hours. This is another reason for the delay.

Okay back to the update. Global equity market continue to move upwards despite President Trump having so many problems with his team and fellow US politicians. I heard one analyst said that he could not find anything that would indicate a market downturn, and that is scary in my opinion.

For the month of July (by the way, I closed July account on 28), STI moved up 104.27 points, or 3.23%. My portfolio performed poorly compared to the index due to poor performance of Ausnet, SATS, SIA Engineering, UE and SPH. As at 28 July, it value moved up only 0.75%.

I received bonus shares from KSH this month (okay I sold some of the shares when the value shot up more than 100% previously, now on hindsight could be a mistake).
Due to my busy schedule in July I missed the deadline to convert my PanU rights to shares and loss some money... (bad luck!) There were no other trade done.

Total dividend received in July amounts to S$5,785.00. Most of the dividend this month comes from UT. This is no surprise and I am looking forwards to August dividend.

Below are my top 30 holdings as at 28 July 2017. With the continuous poor performance in there prices, SPH and Comfortdelgro are overtaken by the two banks.

1.         OCBC Bank

2.         DBS

3.         SPH

4.         ComfortDelGro

5.         Ausnet Services

6.         Metro

7.         ST Engineering

8.         Kep Inf Tr fKa CIT

9.         Frasers Comm Tr

10.     CapitaComm Tr

11.     Sembcorp Ind

12.     SGX

13.     AIMSAMP Cap Reit

14.     Lippo Malls Tr

15.     CapitaLand

16.     Tai Sin Electric

17.     SATS

18.     Global Inv

19.     Sing Inv & Fin

20.     Starhub

21.     Keppel Corp

22.     OUE

23.     Ascendas Reit

24.     United Engineers

25.     Nam Lee Metal

26.     Nikko AM STI ETF 100

27.     Cache Log Trust

28.     YZJ Shipbldg SGD

29.     Mapletree Log Tr

30.     Ascendas-h Trust

Portfolio Update June 2017

This month, the equity market was quite boring with its side way movement. It went up and down like a little yo-yo. A 1.3% surge in STI on 29 June was followed by a 1% drop the next day. As a whole, STI went up 7 points for the whole month and ended at 3,226.48 on 30 June, not so bad actually.

My portfolio did a little better. It value increased only 0.82% for the month, out performed the index by 0.6%.

I sold more then half of my KSH shares when its price went beyond 0.93 and cash in a handsome profit. I also participated in scrip dividend scheme in QAF, FCOT and Keppel Reit. In total there was a net cash outflow from the portfolio this month.

Total dividend received this month amounted to S$15,436, half from shares and the other half from UT and bond.

Below are my top 30 holdings as at 30 June 2017.

1. SPH
2. OCBC Bank
3. DBS
4. ComfortDelGro
5. Ausnet Services
6. Metro
7. ST Engineering
8. Kep Inf Tr fKa CIT
9. Frasers Comm Tr
10. AIMSAMP Cap Reit
11. CapitaComm Tr
12. Sembcorp Ind
13. SGX
14. SATS
15. Lippo Malls Tr
16. CapitaLand
17. Tai Sin Electric
18. Global Inv
19. Starhub
20. Sing Inv & Fin
21. Keppel Corp
22. United Engineers
23. OUE
24. Ascendas Reit
25. Nam Lee Metal
26. Cache Log Trust
27. Nikko AM STI ETF 100
28. Mapletree Log Tr
29. Ascendas-h Trust
30. Suntec Reit

Portfolio Update 26 May 2017

I was in China last week to participate in an event. There was no access to gmail, facebook so I was not able to complete the update there. The May account has to be closed on 26/5, and the update can only be published today.

It is the month May again, but this proved to be a different May for the index. STI ended higher this month ( or at least till today higher compared to last month), despite negative predictions from some analyst that the market needed a correction. As at today, STI closed at 3,219.42, up 1.39% from last month-end.

Unfortunate for me, my portfolio did not do as well as the index. It's value dropped 0.55% from end of April.

I was very busy with my work in May and had very little time to monitor my investment portfolio. I did not do any trade in May at all, but received some shares from Fraser Commercial Trust and Keppel Reit.

May is the "Dividend Month" for investors. My total "passive income" this month amounts to S$25,175. This comes from shares, UT and bonds.

Below are my top 30 holdings as at 26/5/2017.

1.       SPH
2.       DBS
3.       OCBC Bank
4.       ComfortDelGro
5.       Ausnet Services
6.       Metro
7.       ST Engineering
8.       Kep Inf Tr fKa CIT
9.       Frasers Comm Tr
10.   KSH
11.   Sembcorp Ind
12.   CapitaComm Tr
13.   SGX
14.   AIMSAMP Cap Reit
15.   SATS
16.   CapitaLand
17.   Tai Sin Electric
18.   Lippo Malls Tr
19.   Keppel Corp
20.   Starhub
21.   Global Inv
22.   Sing Inv & Fin
23.   OUE
24.   United Engineers
25.   Ascendas Reit
26.   Nam Lee Metal
27.   Nikko AM STI ETF 100
28.   Cache Log Trust
29.   YZJ Shipbldg SGD
30.   Mapletree Log Tr