An Important Investing Perspective On Raffles Medical Group Ltd And Straco Corporation Ltd

22 Jun 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Raffles Medical Group Ltd (SGX: BSL) and Straco Corporation Ltd (SGX: S85) are companies in very different businesses. The former runs a hospital in Singapore in addition to a network of medical centres and clinics in here as well as other territories such as Hong Kong, China, Japan, Vietnam, and Cambodia. ...
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23 Surprising And Important Things About Investing Every Investor Should Know

21 Jun 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A month ago, I had shared 22 surprising and important things about investing that I think every investor should know. These information come from the years that I’ve spent learning about investing (over 10 years now) and commenting about it with my job at The Motley Fool Singapore (more than three years ...
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Infectious Diseases & A High-Population Density In Singapore: What These Mean For Healthcare Companies

20 Jun 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It was reported by The Straits Times last week that six residents in a block of flats in Ang Mo Kio had caught the same drug-resistant strain of the tuberculosis germ over a four-year period. The cases are interesting too as doctors aren’t really sure how the six patients had caught the disease. The ...
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Investors Take Note: These Are 2 Companies With Strong Profit And Dividend Growth Over The Last 5 Years

16 Jun 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There’s a saying that goes, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” But in investing, it is possible to get the best of both worlds. The ‘worlds’ I’m talking about are fast-growing profits and rising dividends. You see, there are companies in Singapore’s stock market that have managed to churn out ...
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An Investor’s Look At Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd And Raffles Medical Group Ltd From The Bottom Up

15 Jun 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In a previous article, I had showed how the return on invested capital (or ROIC) metric can be used to estimate the quality of a business. Here’s the math needed to calculate the ROIC of a company: In general, a high-quality business will have a high ROIC while a low-quality business will have a low ...
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These 4 Stocks Have Grown Their Earnings By Over 15% For 10 Years

13 Jun 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Growth investors seek companies that could grow their businesses at above average rates over the long-term future. Unfortunately, no one has a working crystal ball that can allow them to accurately predict what’s going to happen next. This makes estimating the future of a business potentially tricky. ...
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Here’s why Raffles Med has no problem securing top medical talent in China

8 Jun 2016 - Singapore Business Review
They rely on their group practice model. Foreign hospitals operators in China are afraid of the “red envelope” practice in the country which makes it difficult to secure medical talents. However, this is not a problem for Raffles Medical Group. According to analysts from UOB Kay Hian, standard and quality ...
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The Best Analogy to Describe Investing

26 May 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I have a large group of friends who really dig investing. Some of them are professionals in the industry while others treat investing as a serious hobby. But nearly all of them do not know who Ralph Wanger is. Which is a shame, really, as Wanger’s an investor with a phenomenal track record. He became ...
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The Best Advice For A New Investor

24 May 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In a recent live virtual chat event that my colleagues and I hosted for some readers of the Motley Fool Singapore, there was a participant who asked what the best advice is that we can give to new investors. My response is that the best thing a new investor can do is to study market history. My US colleague ...
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2 Companies With Insiders Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Is

17 May 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
One of the more commonly used strategies by investors is to follow insider transactions. That’s something even the legendary super investor Peter Lynch did. In his book One Up on Wall Street, Lynch shared investing checklists that he had used and one of the criteria was this: “Whether insiders are buying ...
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