Make 2014 A Year for Buy and Hold Investing

2 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
For an investor who bought into the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) back in 11 October 2007, when it closed at 3,876 points, buy and hold investing would likely look like a dead duck to him. After all, we’re at the start of 2014 and the index is only at 3,180 points or thereabouts. So, that’s some six-plus ...
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Warren Buffett’s Super-Simple Retirement Advice

31 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Warren Buffett might as well be king of the investment industry. He produced the best returns the world has ever seen working from his house in Omaha, USA, not a desk on Wall Street, the capital of America’s financial industry. And for that reason, so many people want his advice on how to invest for ...
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Two Metrics Bank Investors Must Know

26 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There are three banks among the 30 constituents of Singapore’s stock market barometer, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI). These banks are DBS Group Holdings (SGX: D05), Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (SGX: O39), and United Overseas Bank (SGX: U11). The banking trio all have large market capitalisations, ...
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How to Beat the Market

23 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
If you’re an investor in the share market who’s managing your own money, I probably wouldn’t be too far off the mark to say that you’ve probably asked yourself this question at some point in time: How do I beat the market? To answer this, we first have to look at the two ways you can choose to participate ...
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Where I am Looking For My Investing Gems

22 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
This week I am going to attempt something that I have never tried before. I am going to try and read your mind. But before I do that, let me first paint you a very quick picture about what has been happening in the stock market this year. Since the start of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
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Four Questions You Must Ask Your Financial Advisor Before 2014

20 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
December is a great time to review your current financial situation, make some New Year’s resolutions, and start 2014 on the right foot. If you have a financial advisor, schedule a year-end check-up with him or her, gather your most recent financial statements, and bring them to your meeting. Once you’re ...
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How to Double Your Money in 10 Years

12 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
People invest for all kinds of different reasons; some invest to see their child through university; some invest to buy their dream car or set foot on Europe for a snowy vacation; and some invest because it is just so much fun (that’s us at the Motley Fool!). But, for whatever reason that people invest, ...
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Will Genting Singapore Ever Become A Proper Dividend Share?

11 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Among the 30 blue chips within the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), there are no shares that do not pay a dividend. This helps give the index a dividend yield of around 2.7% based on data from the STI tracker, the SPDR Straits Times Index ETF (SGX: ES3) However, within the index’s constituents, there ...
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Mythbuster - Investing is NOT Gambling

11 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Many of us would agree that we would make our money work for us, by investing it. Unfortunately, some are held by back by the belief that “investing is gambling”. We Gambling vs. Investing The environment in which a person is brought up plays a major part in his or her perception of investing. If one ...
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10 Famous Investment Quotes and What We Can Learn From Them

9 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
When the wisdom of a legendary investor is beautifully packaged in one concise sentence, it’s like the intersection of investing and poetry. When you think about it, super-successful investing gurus have it pretty tough. They put in all that hard work over the years to make their money, and suddenly ...
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