Making Sure Your Dividends Are Safe

26 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Dividends are a wonderful source of passive income for investors. As a part owner of a business, you are paid a share of your company’s profits for doing basically, nothing -nothing, that is, besides an adequate study of the company’s underlying business before plonking down your cash to make the investment. ...
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Profits Grow 36% at Mandarin Oriental

10 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Mandarin Oriental (SGX: M04) is a global hotel management and investment group. It currently has about 44 hotels in more than 25 countries. The company also invests and develops properties that provide synergy with its hotels. Mandarin Oriental operates its headquarters out of Hong Kong and it’s part ...
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The Bond Bombshell

8 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It is said that as much as 90% or more of a portfolio’s return comes from asset allocation. In other words, a significant portion of your portfolio’s return could come from correctly mixing the amount of cash, bonds, property and shares that you hold. But try telling that to Peter Lynch. Try telling ...
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12 Years of Growing Dividends at Jardine Matheson Holdings

7 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The sprawling conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings (SGX: J36) released its full year results for 2013 yesterday evening and saw a slight dip in profits even though revenue had increased. The company is involved with a wide range of businesses around the globe. Through Astra (which is half-owned by ...
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Three Shares That Beat the Market Today

7 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Fears over Russia’s attempted aggression toward Ukraine’s sovereign territories seems to have taken a backseat over the week; it’s the fourth straight day of gains for the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) as it moved up 0.2% to 3,136 points. 15 of the index’s 30 constituents ended the trading session ...
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Why Investing Is So Important For Everyone

4 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s not really a secret that we Singaporeans want to come up tops in almost everything we do. We even have a self-deprecating and endearing term we use to describe this mentality we have – “kiasu”, which is literally translated in plain English as “being afraid to lose”. Just today, it was revealed ...
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How You Can Earn An 18% Yield with This Share

3 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Back at the start of 2005, Second Chance Properties (SGX: 528) was worth a split-adjusted S$0.188 per share. For an investor who bought shares of the company, which is involved with property investments and gold and Malay-fashion retailing, he would have gotten a really attractive yield-on-cost of 8.5%; ...
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Confessions Of A Hedge Fund Manager

2 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
What do you call a room full of hedge fund managers? Could it be an academy of hedge fund managers? Or maybe we should call them a college of hedge fund managers. Whatever we eventually decide upon, these professional money men are supposed to represent some of the finest brains in the finance industry. ...
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The Best Jardine Company To Buy

1 Mar 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Picking your way through the Jardine Group is a bit like picking through a box of luxury chocolates. You know the contents are good but no one ever wants to be stuck with the chocolate-coated caramel. The Jardine Group is a sprawling organisation that spans property, hotels, supermarkets, farming, insurance ...
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Two Shares with the Key to Growing Dividends

27 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Consistently growing dividends are a wonderful thing as it can really help propel an investor’s long-term returns to greater heights. But the thing is, it isn’t that easy to find shares that are able to grow their dividends dependably. For every Jardine Matheson Holdings (SGX: J36) with a 10-year long ...
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