How a Sea Change In Singapore’s Share Market Can Benefit You

30 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Earlier this week, my colleague Chong Ser Jing shared a piece of really exciting news from stock exchange operator Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX: S68): From 19 January 2015 onwards, individual investors would be able to buy in standard board lot sizes of 100 units instead of 1,000 units. This has been ...
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Is DBS Group Holdings Ltd The Most Popular Constituent In The Straits Times Index?

23 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Not all blue chips are created equal. At least they’re not in terms of the level of interest they can generate amongst investors. Looking at the average daily transacted value for each company within the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), we can get a sense of which companies investors are generally more ...
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Best of the Fool: Top 3 Stories of the Week

16 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Here are three of the most popular articles at The Motley Fool Singapore this week. 1. What Investors Need to Know About Japfa Limited’s Initial Public Offering Japfa Ltd (SGX: UD2) is a very new share given that it had just begun trading yesterday at 9am. The market seems to like what it’s seeing with ...
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Could Fraser & Neave Shine As A Value Diversified Industrials Stock?

13 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Diversified Industrials are defined as industrial companies that are engaged in at least three substantially different classes of business within the industrial industry. The Singapore Stock Exchange lists nine such companies. The two largest stocks by a country mile – accounting for nearly 90% of the ...
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Great Stocks To Buy And Hold For 20 Years

13 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Here at the Motley Fool Singapore, we were once asked this question. “If we were to choose a stock to buy ourselves for the long term, say over 20 years, what are the basic things we need to look out for?” That’s a great question that many investors have. And for some answers, we can turn to two great ...
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3 Things You Never Knew About the Straits Times Index

12 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Ever wondered what it really means for an investor to invest into the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) through index trackers like the SPDR STI ETF (SGX: ES3) or Nikko AM STI ETF 100 (SGX: G3B)? Both trackers are exchange-traded funds designed to track the movements of the STI by holding shares of the ...
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STI’s Internationality in Revenue Reach & Benchmarked Performance

8 Aug 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In the first seven months of 2014, the Straits Times Index (SGX:^STI) generated a total return of 8.3%, compared to a 1.2% total return for the Dow Jones Index and a 3.2% decline for the Nikkei 225 Index. The STI has maintained a stronger performance than the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nikkei ...
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The Singapore Market this Week

20 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on changes – just in case they’re material to our investing thesis. The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) ended the week at 3,311 points, up 0.5%, or 17 points, over the previous week’s close of ...
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Looking at Dairy Farm International Holdings through the Eyes of an Investing Master

8 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Dairy Farm International Holdings (SGX: D01) is a leading pan-Asian retailer with over 5,800 outlets worldwide. The firm operates supermarkets, hypermarkets, convenience stores, home furnishing stores, and health and beauty stores under famous brands such as Giant, Cold Storage, Jasons MarketPlace, 7-Eleven ...
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3 Shares That Beat the Market Today

7 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s a nice start to the week for the blue chips in Singapore: 20 out of the Straits Times Index’s (SGX: ^STI) 30 constituents had ended today’s trading session with gains while only seven had lost some ground. With such numbers, the Straits Times Index had unsurprisingly climbed by 0.6% to 3,292 points. ...
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