How Beer Might Make You A Better Investor

26 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
“Does having beer in our diet help one become a prudent investor?” That’s one of the questions that popped up during our Ask a Foolish Question exercise. It’s fun (I love a mug of good beer!), so we’ll take a stab at it. Thing is, having a beer holds the possibility of making you a better investor, ...
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Five Investing Lessons From A Great Football Manager

20 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Sir Alex Ferguson presided as manager of the English football club Manchester United (affectionately nick-named the Red Devils) for 27 years from 1986 to 2013 and delivered phenomenal success by winning 38 trophies during his tenure. Along the way, the victorious exploits of the Red Devils captured ...
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Let’s Face It. You Can’t Make Short-Term Predictions In Investing

10 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Wouldn’t it be great if we could always have a clear picture of how the markets are going to be like one or two years out into the future? That way, we can always position ourselves carefully to reap outsized rewards in double-quick time. Thing is, no one can. The Bad News: You Can’t Predict Investment ...
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Three Interesting Facts About the Straits Times Index

10 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) is perhaps the one name that’s most identified with Singapore’s share market. Its first incarnation appeared in 1966, and since then, has been used as a general market-barometer here. Currently, the STI is constructed as a market-capitalisation-weighted index using ...
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The Market Is Volatile – Get Used To It

9 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
According to Yahoo Finance, Singapore’s most widely quoted stock market barometer, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), started 1988 at 834 points. Since then, it has grown 265% to 3,048 points as of 6 Sep 2013. That equates to a compounded annualised return of around 5.1% (exclusive of dividends) on ...
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Vivante has a high precision mobile GPU - SemiAccurate

5 Sep 2013 - SemiAccurate

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The Hardest Thing About Investing

4 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I was browsing for investing books at a book shop with a loved one recently when we started talking about investing. She asked me, ‘What exactly is value investing?’ After explaining the concept of buying a dollar for fifty cents, she followed up with, ‘Seems like the hardest part about investing is ...
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An Investment In Gold Is Not As Glittering As You Might Think

26 Aug 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Last week, my Foolish colleague David Kuo wrote about why he’s a fan of shares, and not gold. That got me thinking about how gold actually fared in Singapore dollars as opposed to the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), a proxy for how much our overall stock market has grown. There have been many studies ...
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Two Shares The Market Expects Big Things Of

20 Aug 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
At Monday’s close, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) is at 3,173 points, with a trailing Price-Earnings ratio of 13.1 if we use the data of the index tracker SPDR STI ETF (SGX: ES3) as a close proxy. This puts the STI’s current valuation below its historical mean of around 16. The index’s current ...
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SGX Proposes to Reduce Board Lot Size to 100 Units

20 Aug 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore Exchange (SGX: S68), or SGX for short, is planning to reduce the standard board lot size of securities listed on SGX from 1,000 to 100 units. It will be introduced as early as first quarter of 2014, subject to approval from regulators. In the longer term, SGX may change the lot size to 1 ...
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