I am updating the Jun portfolio a bit early this month as I foresee I will be very busy when I return to work from my 2 weeks leave right the following Monday. It's been nice having time away from work with the family where the highlights have been going together to the Taman Safari and also the Cimory side of the mountaneous area.

The theme this month is trying to increase some cash position in the portfolio as I start to review and do some portfolio rebalancing. I've previously posted on my thoughts here.

My portfolio has also shrink to just a couple of positions and is now really a matter of the top few that matters.

First, I started the month by divesting my position with Ireits at 75.5 cents at a 20.7% gain which I have written over here. My thesis stems from the idea that I think there are limited room to run from valuations view and the only saving grace is their 7.5% yield (90% payout) with a series of their freehold commercial properties. I also think that there are rights issue looming so I'd be interested to re-enter at the right price again.

Next, I also divested my position with Far East Hospitality Trust at 65.5 cents at a 12.6% gain which I have written over here. The thesis for this is due to the recent run up in share price due to the surging news of the hospitality come back and the share price has run up about 10% since. There is also a huge block of selling queue at 66 cents which I think is hard for them to break hence I have divested first meanwhile to allocate those profits back to cash.

I have also divested my position with Lippomall Indonesia Trust (LMIRT) at 42.5 cents at a 18.3% gain. Their TTM dividend yield stands at around 8.1% and I'd be frank enough to say that I would expect more given the risk profile that the company has. The company has an ambitious plan by growing their AUM and we'll see a lot of M&A news in the next few years. The recent few days with the acquisition of Lippo Kendari is one of them. While they'd be funding it with perpetual securities, the interest costs on the perpetual costs are pretty high, and if I recall is around 5.5% and north. I think with election coming in 2018 in Indonesia, we'll see better entry point for LMIRT next year possibly.

I have also divested my position with Micro-Mechanics at $1.26 at a 55% gain. This isn't a big position by itself and semicon companies have seen their fair share of run-up in the first half of this year to account for its bullishness. MM trades at 13x earnings and I'm just not sure if the bullishness has much been priced in. After all, we know that it's a cyclical industry in nature and much of their earnings need to be normalized in the long run if one wants to keep it long term.

I have also closed my position with Elec & Eltek at $1.58 at a 10.2% gain. This is meant to be a short term trading position and have reached my target of 10% gain which I have decided to close off the position.

On the buy side, I have accumulated 19,000 more shares of Comfortdelgro at $2.41 with the running thesis that I think from valuations view they are decently priced. On a nutshell, the same thesis revolves around the idea that I think the public transport this year will offset the weakness in taxi business while DTL remains an unknown factor because of the costs that might creep in. I also felt that market is discounting the management M&A abilities which have in the past generated decent ROI. I also think that the fact the management increases their final dividend last year spells confident in what they have in terms of cashflow moving forward.

I have also bought 30,000 shares of Capitalmall Trust at $1.92 for a short term trading position. The idea is just simply that $1.92 represents a good entry point because of its strong support and also its very near to 1x of their book value, by contrast to their peers of FCT and CMT which are trading at above 1.1x.

Due to the strong performance of Fraser Logistic Trust mainly this month, the portfolio has grown from the previous month of $599,930 to $610,143 this month (+1.7% month on month, +43% year on year).

Cash position is at the comfortable range of near to 20% as I look to increasingly increase this position as some of the companies valuations are going up and making it less attractive to allocate.

I'd also like to use this chance to update on the Child portfolio a little bit as I made changes which I forgot to update last month as I switched from ST Eng to Singtel. Nothing much changes going on other from here.

Thanks for reading.