Caution: Do Customers Have Too Much Power Over Your Vested Company?

19 Mar 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Porter’s Five Forces is a useful framework developed by Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor, which can help us assess a company’s competitive advantages and weaknesses. As investors, those are important things to think about as the presence of a strong competitive edge might mean a company ...
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1 Valuable Financial Check for Your Vested Companies

18 Mar 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
“There is an old tale, told with great relish by veteran accounting professors to neophytes, regarding a firm in search of an accountant. The field narrowed to three, each of whom was interviewed and then asked to look at the books and calculate the firm’s taxable income for the year. The first candidate ...
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Will Sarine Technologies Ltd Be Affected By This Huge New Threat In The Diamond Industry?

10 Mar 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There seems to be trouble brewing within the diamond industry: The world’s largest diamond producers had met recently to plan the creation of the industry’s first industry-association to fight off the threat of synthetic diamonds. With large diamond producers seemingly worried about the threat of synthetic ...
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Should Investors Stick With New And Exciting Industries Or Old And Boring Ones?

10 Mar 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Some of us like to invest in companies which are in new and exciting industries while some would prefer the old and boring. But, which should investors actually stick to? Let’s find out. The new and exciting Let’s imagine that you were looking at innovative companies in new industries 10 years ago. At ...
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We’re 6 Years into a Bull Run: What to Do Next?

9 Mar 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tomorrow – the 10th of March 2015 – will mark the sixth anniversary of a bull run in Singapore’s stock market which has taken the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) a stunning 135% higher than where it was on 10 March 2009. To some investors, it may be the best of times simply because of the gains that ...
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Investing Lessons that Have Stood the Test of Time - Part 3

3 Mar 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Welcome to the third part of the series on timeless investing lessons! As a brief recap: Late last week, investor Irving Kahn passed away at age 109. Kahn started working on Wall Street in 1928, and was a disciple of the father of value investor, Ben Graham. With more than eight decades of experience ...
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6 Points That Say This Company Might Be a Great Growth Stock

12 Feb 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Diamond manufacturing equipment and technology supplier Sarine Technologies Ltd (SGX: U77) has been a great market-beater with its shares rising nearly 870% to S$2.83 since its listing in April 2005. In comparison, Singapore’s market barometer, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), has gained just 57% ...
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The Best Investment Decision You’ll Make

9 Feb 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
When it comes to investing, the most common questions I get from my friends are: The missing question, though, is the decision we might make the most often throughout our investing lives. And, that is: “Should I continue to hold it?” Technically, we could say that the shares in our portfolio are on sale ...
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3 Factors to Make Money in the Share Market

19 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The late Walter Schloss was one of the select few investors who has earned the admiration of investing guru, Warren Buffett. According to Buffett’s 1984 article “The Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville”, Schloss’s WSJ Partnership delivered a breath-taking annualized return of 21.3% over 28 years. ...
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How to Achieve Investing Success

15 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The term “economic moat” is one which was coined and popularized by Warren Buffett. Like a moat around a traditional castle, the phrase refers to the ability of a business to defend its profits from its competitors, and where possible, expand its market share. It follows that companies which are able ...
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