One Share with a Solid History of Growing Dividends

13 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There’s a market-beating mutual fund (the equivalent of a unit trust here) in the USA called the Goldman Sachs Rising Dividend Growth Fund that selects its shares based on two simple criteria. The fund calls its criteria the “10/10 test”. First, a share must have a minimum 10-year track record of consecutive ...
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Shareholder

13 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A study by two economists, Joseph T. Halford and Hung-Chia Hsu, showed that investors perceive companies run by attractive chief executive officers (CEOs) to be “better” than those run by their not-so-good-looking CEOs. “Better” was defined by higher stock prices. The study revealed that, “A good-looking ...
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Why Calendar-Based Market-Timing Won’t Work

13 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
We’re currently about half-way through January 2014 and the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) is now at 3,141 points, some 0.8% lower than its 31 Dec 2013 close at 3,167 points. If we extrapolate the index’s current movement to the end of January, the stock market’s performance for the rest of the year ...
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Helping You Understand Corporate Debt through Hongkong Land Holdings

9 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Real estate investor, developer, and manager Hongkong Land Holdings (SGX: H78) announced earlier in the day that it has issued US$400m worth of 10-year notes (a.k.a. debt) through a wholly-owned subsidiary. The company’s corporate-action gives me a nice opportunity to use it as an example to shed some ...
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A Remarkably Powerful Dividend Strategy

8 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I recently came across a curious investing strategy implemented by a mutual fund (the equivalent of a unit trust here) in the USA called the Goldman Sachs Rising Dividend Growth Fund. The fund’s investment strategy is simple – where companies are selected based on only two criteria – and yet remarkably ...
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14 Years of Growing Dividends

3 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings (SGX: J36) is one of the mainstays of Singapore’s stock market benchmark the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), accounting for close to 6% of the index’s movement. And, I had previously written about how the company had displayed 9 consecutive years of dividend ...
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One Common Myth About Stock Prices

24 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Have you heard of the term “penny stock”? This is a term used to describe a stock that’s trading at a very low price, normally below the dollar mark, andsome investors tend to think of them as carrying higher risks.. On the other hand, stocks with high prices in the double digits, such as DBS Group ...
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Investing Overseas through the Straits Times Index

23 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
When we talk about investing in the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), we might think of it as a proxy with which we can invest in the Singapore economy. But, there are actually quite a number of the index’s 30 constituents that are mainly operating outside of Singapore. Let’s look at some of them. 1) ...
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The Straits Times Index’s Steady Dividends

18 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Dividends form an important component of long-term returns for investors. But, the utility of dividends becomes limited if a company has the tendency to reduce or even remove it completely during times of economic distress. In America, dividend aristocrats – companies that have a history of 25 years ...
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Singapore’s Fastest Growing Blue Chips

10 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There’s a pithy quote attributed to American billionaire investor Warren Buffett that describes the essence of what the stock market is all about: “If the business does well, the stock eventually follows.” Of course, there can be many interpretations of what it means for a business to “do well”, but ...
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