Year Of The Horse – Why The Long Face?

2 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Gong Xi Fa Cai! As the serpent slithers back into the undergrowth of time, we wave a fond farewell to the Year of the Snake and welcome in the Year of the Horse. Yes, it is out with the old and in with the new. “Out with the old and in with the new” might be the right mantra for Chinese New Year. However, ...
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5 Shares for Chinese New Year

30 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese holiday that’s celebrated on the first day of the year according to the Chinese calendar. Traditionally, the festival is marked as a time to honor various deities as well as family-ancestors. There are other cultural norms associated with the festival, ...
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Do You Have What it Takes To Handle a 385% Gain?

20 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
If you have invested in a particular company – whose share price performance is profiled in the chart below – for the past 10 years, you would have gained roughly 385% from doing nothing. But, there’s more to it than meets the eye. By looking at the chart since 2004, we can see that the stock has been ...
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How You Can Value Management

17 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Evaluating the management of a company is never an easy thing to do. So, how can you really tell if management is doing a good job? For instance, a company that has done well for a number of years might just be the lucky beneficiary of having a rising tide in its industry lifting all boats. Share Prices ...
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What We Can Learn About Investing From Monopoly

10 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Monopoly has been a popular game for almost a century and there are good reasons for it. In my opinion, it is one of the best games for teaching our children – and maybe even ourselves – about finance and investing. Have Cash on Hand In Monopoly, players who are focused on buying up expensive plots of ...
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The Top Five Reasons Highly-Paid Athletes Go Broke and What You Can Learn From Them

6 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It can be easy to gawk at the inflated salaries of today’s sports stars, but those extremely high paychecks are unfortunately accompanied by extremely high rates of bankruptcy. Athletes go broke all the time. Within five years after their careers end, Mint.com estimates that 60% of National Basketball ...
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One Surprising Fact about One of the Straits Times Index’s Lowest Dividend Yields

26 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
As of 25 Dec 2013, all the 30 constituents of the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) had paid a dividend for their last completed financial year. However, as I’ve mentioned before, there exists distinct dichotomies among the blue chips that make up the index in terms of their fundamentals. And, one of the ...
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What is Minority Interest and Why Should it Matter?

17 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
When you are reading through a company’s financial statements, there will be a line at the end of the income statement and balance sheet called “minority interest” or “non-controlling interest”. Both terms mean essentially the same thing, but what exactly is minority interest and why does it matter? ...
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How to Value a Company With No Profits?

16 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The price to earnings ratio (P/E) has always been a favourite valuation tool among investors. For one, it is easy to understand, and the data is freely available. However, there will come a time, when you hear about a company that has so much potential that it has plans to take over the world. Yet when ...
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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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