The Successful Investor’s Checklist - Part 2

14 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Hello, and welcome to Part 2 of the successful investor’s checklist! If you would like to start with Part 1, click here. Here’s a brief recap: Stepping into the share market can be as daunting as walking up to the longest buffet spread you have ever seen. The number of companies listed in Singapore is ...
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3 Things You Need To Know About the Singapore Share Market Today

5 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Welcome to Monday evening! Here are three things about Singapore’s share market you might want to look at today and over the rest of the week. 1. The start of a new year is often a good time for us to take stock of what has happened over the past year and think about how we can put our best foot forward ...
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Rock-Solid Shares to Start 2015 With

2 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
2014 was an interesting year for investors when it came to interest rates. There was almost unanimous consensus that bond prices would fall in the year, causing a rise in interest rates. But, that didn’t happen. Here’s how financial journalist Jason Zweig from The Wall Street Journal recently described ...
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What Does the Future Hold for This Winning Stock? - Part 1

19 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Shares of VICOM Limited (SGX: V01), has outperformed over the last five plus years. The company’s shares are up 324% from 1 January 2009 to its closing price on 18 December 2014. By comparison, the capital gain returns of the SPDR STI ETF (SGX: ES3) was 75% for the same duration. The SPDR STI ETF is ...
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The Crazy Financial Media: What You Can Do About It

16 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In my opinion, one of the craziest things about the financial media is their tendency to want to explain every short-term price movement that occurs in the stock market. A great example of that folly was given recently in a brilliant blog post by investment manager and blogger Josh Brown. The following ...
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What Investors Should Really Do Given Volatile Oil Prices

15 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The current and future price of oil has been dominating financial market discourse in recent times. And it rightly should. Oil prices can determine the amount of discretionary income consumers spend outside of transport; big oil producing nations depend on its level to see if they fall into a budget ...
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Why Now’s The Best Time to Invest

8 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
My colleague Morgan Housel pens a column for the Wall Street Journal periodically and one of his latest pieces, titled 16 Rues for Investors to Live By, contains advice which I think many investors tend to overlook: “14. There is no such thing as a normal economy, or a normal stock market. Investors ...
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Investing Advice for the Star Wars Fan

6 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The much-anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII teaser trailer was released over the last weekend. It quickly garnered views from its legion of fans, clocking up almost 40 million views on Youtube in the last four days. Needless to say, the Star Wars franchise still remains stunningly popular. We may even ...
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Singing Your Way to Winning Investment Returns

5 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
“They’re not the best at what they do; they’re the only ones that do what they do.” – Promoter Bill Graham referring to the Grateful Dead Just this morning, I found out that the co-founder of the Motley Fool, David Gardner, loves the quote above about the American rock band, the Grateful Dead. There ...
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These 4 Shares Are Unique Companies in Singapore

27 Nov 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Are you tired of looking at companies that struggling to differentiate itself from thousands of other competitors with very similar characteristics? If so, the following shares can be a breath of fresh air as they are one-of-a-kind in Singapore’s share market. The banking-software giant Silverlake Axis ...
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