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My Stock Portfolio Update - 14 September 2012

Jack Phang Sheng Jie
Publish date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012, 11:20 AM
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Since the post 1 years ago, I wish to make a record here to keep track my progress on stock portfolio. I am now more confident in Singapore stock market after going through a learning curve here. Some of the points I wish to note down here are:

  • Most of the China based company listed in Singapore suffer from very low valuation due to its lack of transparency as well as more frequent scandals happening in recent years. The most famous story is "Chaoda Modern Agriculture", a company which owns a large plots of agriculture lands but apparently found from hiding something from the shareholders and its management involved in insider trading activities. I believe it is a normal term for china businessmen to do business in China, as their regulators are not very strong in controlling the company. Quite a numbers of Singaporean investors would avoid to invest in Chinese counters listed in SGX. 
  • After going through a bear market since September last year and we saw a rise from 2,700 points to 3,000 points at the beginning of the year, and now we are at somewhere above 3,000 points. Even though the Singapore government projected a lower GDP growth this year, but some how the market is still in a up trend, which I also do not really know why it happens. So as what I mentioned earlier, we should not really time the market, but instead we should do more homework to find out hidden jewels from the stock market.
  • Oil & Gas sector is one of the best performers after the oil prices was under a very volatile price range due to certain reasons such as Europe financial crisis and discouraging US job rates etc. However we do expect a constant rise of oil prices in long term and I think it would not change the trend. More and more countries are exploring oil at offshore and it brings a good order book to rig builders.
  • Singapore property market cooling measurement started beginning of the year has brought some impact to the share prices of premium/luxury residential property developers such as Citi Development and Capitaland. China economy slow down also made investors cautious with the property developers with China exposure. You can see a huge volatility in China property developers such as Yanlord.
  • Singapore REITs were one of the best asset classes this year. I will still keep monitoring its tenant business in Singapore, but I am more favor on health care sectors, as it has the most bargaining power with tenants.
  • My stock portfolio size has been squeezed down to lower level (24% of total current assets), as I wish to renovate my new house and spend more time on doing research on managing residential buildings. Of course, I will standby to increase my exposure in stock market once the market crash happens again, which I do not think it will happen soon. So I just park my money at mortgage loan to enjoy 4.3% while waiting for bargain hunting again. 


Feel free to give me your comments on how you manage your stock portfolio.

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Trader Hub

Hi Jack, thanks for sharing. You seem to have quite a unique list of stocks in your watchlist. Would you mind sharing the criteria for your picks?

2012-09-17 22:55

Jack Phang Sheng Jie

Hi, basically I am also still in the learning stage, I will first filter out company with good ROE records, and then dig out more on its business model and see whether it has the potential consistent growth in long run or having a good dividend payout ratio. Having say that, I also encounter some problem in investing in S-chip, which most of the investors don't like.

2012-09-18 06:33

Trader Hub

I share your view. There are certainly some quality stocks in sgx, but the overall market is a little passive. Do you invest in other markets besides sgx?

2012-09-18 10:18

Jack Phang Sheng Jie

@Trader Hub: I do invest in bursamalaysia since 14 years back. I just started investing in Sgx since last year. To be frank, volatility of Sg mkt is in the middle of My mkt and Hk mkt. So I trade more frequently in sg mkt as compared to My mkt.
@Tan Kian Wei: I prefer cash cow company with low capex requirement. You can find a lot of these companies in beverage sectors. Of course, sometime I also prefer cyclical stocks which is in the uptrend now such as oil&gas sector now or palm oil sector few months back. Anyway, do manage your risk while investing. As I am now full time investor/trader, so I can always monitor the market. p/s: All my income streams are stock market related now, until I will try to create another income stream (property rental income) end of this year.

2012-09-18 15:12

Jack Phang Sheng Jie

@TanKiwanWei: This is only my opinion/guess. With US election coming soon, I do not think that any speculator would dare to try to short the market while predicting the current US government every their best to improve US economy. Anyway, I do not rule out the possibility of market crash (e.g. 20% market drop), although the chances are slightly lower until US Election.

2012-09-18 15:19

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