Soilbuild Business REIT Preferential Offer – Doing What’s Right?
A few weeks ago, Soilbuild Business REIT announced a preferential offer, and this came as no surprise to me, as they needed cash to purchase a Bukit Batok property from their sponsor, despite after...
View ArticleIREIT Global – Management Shuffle, with a Twist
An interesting announcement by IREIT Global yesterday about the sale of the manager to a subsidiary of a private equity firm perked my interest to do a little bit of digging on the company being sold...
View ArticlePhillip SGX APAC Dividend Leaders REIT ETF – A Panacea For Low Yield?
Normally, I’m not an active blogger due to my day job, which requires me to dabble in technology and finance, but when an interesting piece of news comes across my desk, I can’t pass up the chance to...
View ArticleFrasers Hospitality Trust Rights Issue – Opportune Time To Lower Gearing
Sorry folks for the late post (almost a month!), as I was really busy with work and life. Anyway, Frasers Hospitality Trust declared a rights issue at the end of September, and I took up the rights...
View ArticleFSMOne – New Trading Platform from IFAST
Yes, a new platform has arrived in Singapore as announced in the newspaper today, and while most people did not see this coming, I have been following the company’s growth and development closely over...
View Article2016 SGX Portfolio Breakdown, and a Li Chun (立春) Idea
So apparently I forgot to do a portfolio review at the start of 2016 (and I’m not sure why!), so I guess it’s opportune to do a breakdown now. Looks like my portfolio is heavily weighted on Finance,...
View ArticleSabana REIT Rights Issue – A Trap, or Simple Underperformance?
Usually, REITs don’t issue rights at a severely discounted price to it’s NAV unless they are in financial distress, and the recent rights issue from Sabana was heavily discounted, but Sabana isn’t in...
View ArticleKrisEnergy Preferential Offer – Measured Risk Taking
After raising money back in 2005, KrisEnergy is back at the deal table due to their upcoming notes this year. Seems that it was a pretty good deal for the shareholders, as the zero coupon bonds that...
View ArticleAfter 13 Years, I Sold My Endowment Policy!
In a rare case of “happy endings” with insurance companies, I sold my NTUC endowment policy that I bought during my NS days to a company that buys them. After calculating the quoted value that REPS...
View ArticleAscott REIT and AsiaPhos Rights Issue – The Pauper and The Prince
My humble apologies dear readers, as I was really caught up with work till date. There wasn’t much time for me to put my thoughts onto “paper”, so finally here is my quick write-up of two counters –...
View ArticleA Note About General Offers for Shares in CPFIS Accounts
So I recently tendered my Keppel T&T shares up to the offeror, and to my surprise, OCBC didn’t charge me anything for this. Usually there will be bank charges for share purchases/sales and...
View ArticleThe LepakInvestor Guide to Rights Issues
I was informed by a friend to write in detail about rights issues, as there seems to be a trend of companies and business trusts/REITs raising capital recently. This is my interpretation of rights...
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