How to Find Growing Dividends

15 Apr 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There’s an exclusive list of companies in the USA called the ‘Dividend Aristocrats’. These stocks made the blue-blooded list by having the distinction of increasing their dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. Annual dividend hikes are like increasing pay checks – I know I wouldn’t turn ...
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Cyprus: What Does it Really Mean for Investors?

26 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s finally done. Cyprus has agreed to a bail-out deal that will see heavy losses for depositors with more than 100,000 euros in Cyprus Popular Bank and Bank of Cyprus. Financial markets around the world reacted with alarm as the stock markets in the US and Europe fell. As investors, this raises the ...
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3 More Dividend Stocks with Healthy Yields

21 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A recent Straits Times headline said “4 in 10 Singaporeans not saving for retirement”. It’s alarming because the article cited how many Singaporeans still “continue to rely on their Central Provident Fund savings as their basic nest egg”. Don’t get me wrong – the CPF is a great savings scheme. But your ...
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What You Can Learn from the Greatest Investor You’ve Never Heard Of – Part 2

20 Mar 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Meet Shelby Cullom Davis – the best investor you’ve never heard of who turned US$50,000 in 1947 into US$900 million by the time he passed away in 1994. Davis achieved a compounded annual return of 23% for 47 years, results that would make anyone an investing superstar. In the first part of our series, ...
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“We Do Not Expect Any Surprises” – Really?

22 Feb 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
‘We do not expect any surprises’ is frequently used by forecasting experts when discussing the future state of the world on almost all aspects of life. You hear the phrase used in sports, politics, economics, the financial markets etc. but there is an intense irony in the statement. By definition, a ...
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Dividends – A Long Term Investor’s Best Friend?

19 Feb 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Supporters of long-term investing will often point to massive capital gains built up over many years to prove their point– just ask investors who have bought and held on to Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares since their May 1997 IPO for a 15,300% return. A $100 investment in Amazon in May 1997 would have ...
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