Income Investors, Don’t Look at the Wrong Numbers!

25 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
While all investors would likely have the same objective of maximising the total after-tax returns they can achieve, there are some who are more concerned than others about the income they can obtain from investing. For such investors, they’re known conveniently as income investors and they have a primary ...
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Businesses in the Haze

21 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The talk of the town for the past few days has been how hazardous the haze has become. N95 masks are selling out fast. People are encouraged to stay indoors. The Pollutant Standard Index (PSI) seems to be on a bull run whereas the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) seems to be in doldrums. At the time ...
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Markets Are Reeling, What Should We Do?

12 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
While getting my daily dose of news on a Saturday morning reading the Straits Times, I saw two articles placed on adjacent pages of the paper with very similar headlines. One read, ‘Effects from QE unwinding may not be even: Analysts’ while the other had the cautious-sounding title, “Asia may reel from ...
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A Look At Singapore's Healthcare Providers

12 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Regardless of the state of our economy, people still require medical treatment. Here in Singapore, our ageing population coupled with a rising prevalence of risk factors such as chronic illnesses is contributing to a growing demand for healthcare services. With that in mind, one might assume that healthcare ...
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Three of Singapore’s Fastest Growing Dividends

6 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Dividends are a great source of secondary income for investors. Companies that have the ability to fund growing dividends because of better profits, larger cash flows and a stronger balance sheet would be akin to the proverbial cash-cow for shareholders. Let’s take a look at some companies that have ...
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Three Shares With Growing Earnings And Growing Prices

13 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Last week, we shared how some companies with growing profits could make for disappointing investment choices as investors might have overpaid for growth. Paying a high Price-Earnings (PE) multiple for a stock can set up the stage for a contraction in the multiple if the eventual growth falls short of ...
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Singapore’s Best-Performing Mid-Caps

3 May 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Mid-cap shares are often seen as the poor relation in the stock market. They are generally perceived as less compelling than the steady blue chips and not as exciting as the volatile small caps. But consider this: Mid-caps are a hotbed for new and young businesses. After all, today’s mid-caps could be ...
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Raffles Medical Group First Quarter Results: In the Pink of Health?

29 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Healthcare provider Raffles Medical Group (SGX: R01) released its first-quarter results earlier this morning. With the recently completed quarter, the company has managed to continue a trend of double-digit year-on-year quarterly revenue growth that stretches back to at least the third quarter of 2011 ...
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Three Shares That Beat the Market Today

23 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) wasn’t feeling too well today as it spent the entire day in the red and ended up losing 0.7% to 3284. More than three quarters of the STI components were also in the red today so there’s plenty of company among the losers. But, we’ll like to focus our attention on ...
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3 Shares That Lost to the Market Today

20 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore’s most-followed broad stock market index, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), reversed Tuesday’s gains with a 0.63% decline to 3248 today. The STI had plenty of company as well as 20 out of the 30 index components also registered losses. Telecommunications giant SingTel (SGX: Z74) is the biggest ...
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