1 Important Thing to Note about a Sea Change in Singapore’s Share Market

4 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
More than six years ago on January 2008, Warren Buffett made a 10-year bet with asset management firm Protégé Partners that an investment into a low-cost index fund tracking the S&P 500 (a broad American share market index) would outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds built by the latter. Buffett’s ...
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3 Shares That Beat the Market Today

29 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on changes – just in case they’re material to our investing thesis. The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) has started the week on the right note with a 0.2% gain to 3,356 points despite having only ...
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Biggest Consumer Services Stocks Averaged 8.8% Gain In 2014 YTD

24 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
If someone gave you a dollar, you might save or spend it. While long-term economics show it is best to invest savings, present day economics provide the range of goods and services for our spending. Services that are specifically directed to consumers are an important part of all economies and all stock ...
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Singapore’s Best Performing Shares in the 1st Half Of 2014

24 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s been almost a month since the first half of 2014 came to a close on 30 June 2014. But, that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to look back on some of the Straits Times Index’s (SGX: ^STI) best performing constituents in that period to see if there are any valuable takeaways. So, the four shares with ...
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A New Indonesian President Has Been Announced: What Shares Should Singaporean Investors Be Looking At?

23 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
So it’s finally been decided yesterday. Jakarta’s former Governor Joko Widodo will be the seventh President of Indonesia. In what was an eventful election process, Mr.Widodo managed to win 53% of the Indonesian public’s votes. It’s an outcome that investors seem to have been hoping for; the Jakarta Stock ...
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Investing Is All About Buying Low And Selling High. Sounds Easy? Think Again

17 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The secret of investing is really simple: You buy a share at a low price, and sell it at a high price. Besides collecting dividends along the way, that’s really all there is to it in investing. But, there’s a problem: What is a low price and what is considered high? For some investors who are just starting ...
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The Most Important Thing in Investing

15 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I was having a conversation with a few friends over dinner the other night and for some reason or another, we kept coming back to the topic of investing. I guess we couldn’t really help it – after all, birds of the same feather flock together. The main discussion surrounded the pros and cons of different ...
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Indonesia Goes To the Voting Booth: How Might Singapore-listed Shares Be Affected?

10 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It was Election Day in Indonesia yesterday. Citizens of Southeast Asia’s largest nation headed to the polls on Wednesday to choose the President of their country for the next five years. Current President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is set to finish his second term in office with Indonesian law prohibiting ...
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What Is The Difference Between A Growth Company And A Growth Share?

3 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In investing, terms like “growth”, “value”, and “speculation” are often used. For instance, there are “growth companies”, “growth shares”, “speculative shares”, “value shares” etc. There’re yet more examples, but what is interesting here is that a growth share may not necessarily equate to a growth company. ...
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3+1 Reasons To Buy Shares Now

2 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Despite the current doom and gloom surrounding the global economy, investing in shares still makes perfect sense to me. It always makes sense. Here, then, are my three top reasons for buying shares right now. Capital Growth Watching my capital grow over time is one of the main reasons why I like the ...
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