Why You Shouldn’t Forget About Growth Shares With Low Dividends

11 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Dividends provide investors with a secondary source of income and are an important component of long-term stock market returns. With that backdrop, it’s not hard to imagine why investors wouldn’t consider a share’s dividend yield as an important deciding factor when making an investing decision. But, ...
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Three Growth Shares Sharing Their Earnings With You

10 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Most investors would associate growth shares with fast growing companies that retain most of their earnings due to the need for funds to fuel future business expansion. As a result, it’s common to assume that growth shares have low pay-out ratios, defined as a company’s dividends divided by its earnings. ...
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When a Cheap Share Isn’t Cheap

9 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In investing-parlance, it’s common to herald a share with low valuations as cheap. Low valuations can mean the share carrying different combinations of a low Price-Earnings (PE) ratio, a low Price-to-Book (PB) ratio or a low Price-to-Sales (PS) ratio. Generally speaking, low valuations are often seen ...
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Raffles Medical gives glimpse at ambitious acquisition plans

4 Jul 2013 - Singapore Business Review
But potential targets were not disclosed. According to a report by Bloomberg, Raffles Medical Group Ltd. (RFMD), Singapore’s second-largest private medical-services provider, may seek acquisitions to capitalize on rising health-care spending in Asia after expansion plans stalled. The company will consider ...
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Why Investors Should Avoid Looking At the Market

4 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s been almost six years since the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) peaked at 3,876 on 11 Oct 2007 before the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 started and torpedoed everything in its path. The STI went on a downward spiral all the way till it bottomed on 10 March 2009 at 1,456 points. Since then, ...
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The Marshmallow Experiment

2 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In late 1960s to early 1970s, psychologist Walter Mischel from Stanford University conducted an experiment called “Stanford Marshmallow Experiment”. It was a study on delayed gratification and is regarded as one of the most successful behavioural experiments. In the experiment, a marshmallow was offered ...
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Invest Like A Girl

2 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Research, time and again, have shown that women are better investors than their testosterone-driven counterparts. I’m a male and I’m not afraid to say that females trounce us as investors, most of the time. Show me the evidence, you may ask. So here it is. In one of the studies by Barclays Capital and ...
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When Long-Term Investing Fails

1 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It has been close to six years since the start of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009, during which the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) bottomed on March 2009 at 1,456 points. Since then, it has climbed by 114% to 3,118 on 27 June 2013, representing a great return for investors who had the foresight ...
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Three Growth Shares With Growing Dividends

1 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Growth shares, as their name suggests, are growing their top and bottom-lines rapidly and require funds for expansion. So, dividends are a low priority for management and it’s often the case where rapidly-growing companies retain all earnings for future growth. But yet, there are shares with double-digit ...
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Here’s A Better Way to Think About Investing

26 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I’ve got two stock ideas for you. Let’s see how you feel about those ideas after reading brief descriptions of them. Here’s the first stock idea: This stock has already taken a 7% haircut in the past month, even though investors are still sitting on gains of 11% over the past year. Despite historical ...
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