There are many people who seem to believe that in investment, it is important to diversify. However, what does diversification mean and how diversified should one be? To answer this will require an analysis across many different asset classes and will be the topic of a major post. Instead, in this short post, we will […]
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Mapletree Industrial went into a joint venture with its sponsor, Mapletree Investment Trust, to acquire a portfolio of 10 Powered Shell Data Centers. The properties are valued at USD 557.3 million. The Joint venture in turn went into another Joint Venture with Digital Realty, 8th largest publicly traded REIT in the US, to invest in […]
There are times when REITs will announce that they are going to develop some turnkey projects. However, what are turnkey projects and how are they different from regular projects? A Turnkey project is one where the property developer does most of the work and thus there is very little that the end buyer needs to […]
REIT Definitions: Distribution Per Unit (DPU) Accretive For those who are learning how and where to invest money in Singapore as a beginner, it is important to know what DPU accretive means. DPU Accretive also known as, Distribution Per Unit Accretive, is often used to talk about how much more cash a reit unitholder can […]
It was recently reported in the news that Capitaland opened a Raffles City Mall in Chong Qing. While most of the media releases focus on the 900,000 strong crowd during opening day, In learning how and where to invest money in Singapore as beginners, it is important not just to look at headline news […]
In writing the page about Capitaland Mall Trust Dividend Share and Company Analysis, I wanted to check if Capitaland Mall Trust’s Revenue has a correlation with Singapore consumption data. Hence i went to the Singstat database to get the GDP data for Singapore. That is when I realise it is not so simple. For those […]
In learning how to invest your money in Singapore as a beginner, it is important to keep a tab on what can potentially go wrong with an investment. An investment is meant to provide a return while at the same time ensuring a healthy preservation of capital. However, sometimes we do not get the promised […]
Imagine you are a turtle. After much searching, you found a good dry tree trunk for you to bask in the sun. When you are enjoying the heat (given that turtles are cold blooded), another turtle approaches and wishes to use your tree trunk. Will you agree and will you share? Why should the turtle […]
To learn how to invest in Singapore for beginners, we always make the effort to analyse weekly data and find out if there are any new economic trends that the data is trying to tell us. Over the last week, we had two data releases, namely the July Import and Export price indices as well […]
There have been much discussion about the inflation in Singapore, and you can check out the latest inflation number from our consumer price index july 2019 update. While, inflation is a number widely reported in the press, not many people really know what inflation is and its implication for investors. In order to know how […]
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