My In-Depth Thoughts on Property Investing (Part 2) + FREE Calculator

Read Part 1 here.

In the previous post, I mentioned about the 2 main factors that one should consider with monthly cash flow with an investment property. The first was Loan Tenure, followed by Rental Rates/Yield.

The idea is to stretch your tenure to its maximum length that you can minimize your cash outflow. A big bulk of cash outflow is determined by the loan tenure and how huge your actual loan quantum is.

Here are some other factors that the typical property investor must consider before investing in real estate in terms of cash outflow. I may not be able to cover absolutely all costs, but will try to be as comprehensive as I can, especially the more obvious ones.

Why I Bought Indofood Agriculture At Its 7 Year Low and 1.6% Dividend Yield

Just a few weeks ago, I have mentioned in my 2017 Updates that I have bought some units of Indofood Agri (5JS) and concentrated about one-fifth of our portfolio. Half of this amount of investment was from me, and BF decided to jump in together with me on the other half.

While we were discussing about our buy, BF asked me about the dividend yield. He uses dividend yield as a gauge to know how much “interest” he is earning from his investment.

The Importance of Dividends

How important would you take dividends into consideration when buying a stock? Personally, I take dividends quite seriously, and it is one of the key criteria before I decide to make a transaction. If I come across a stock that doesn’t give dividends, I will most likely skip to the next stock – unless the stock has a very good reason for not giving dividends.

There is even a term for investors who highly emphasize on high yield dividend stocks, and they are called income investors! A fellow blogger and my good friend, Warriortan, gets a significant amount of passive income from this method and blogs about how you can do the same.

4 Lessons (and Quotes) About My Investment Journey – 2017 Edition

It has been more than two weeks since I last posted an entry. Apologies for anyone who has been waiting – it has been a long week for me and I couldn’t spare extra time to blog since I have a lot of back log to clear at work. Always so much to deliver, but with limited time on my hands.

As the end of 2017 draws to a close, I have started seeing other finance bloggers posting about their portfolio performance and how their investment journey has been.

November 2017 – Portfolio Updates

Since October, the STI ETF has increased 1.85% in performance. Similarly, my time weighted returns have increased by 2.33% to 13.66%, since G3B holds around 25% of my portfolio. I don’t know if it’s because of the bull market, but Keong Hong and Tat Seng Packaging are slowly revealing their intrinsic value, with both stocks rising very much in the past month as compared to

Property V.S. Stocks – Which has better returns?

As a millennial living with almost every one that I know trying to keep up with the Joneses, it’s not surprising to see some of my friends spending a hell lot to get their first home. The concept is drilled into their heads that property is 99.9999% of the time the best investment that they can make in their entire lives. In fact, the price that they are willing to pay is sometimes something that my alter ego of Miss Niao will never approve of.

Comprehensive Breakdown to Insurance Plans – FREE spreadsheet!

READ THIS BEFORE INVESTING WITH INSURANCE PLANS!

I am not sure if it’s coincidental or not, but recently I have been receiving quite a few requests from my readers and friends for evaluation of their insurance plans. Some of them were directed from the story of my ILP which was posted on HWZ, while others chanced upon my blog. Perhaps it was because of the spreadsheets that I have uploaded.

I have reviewed the spreadsheets but there isn’t one that can help to calculated exactly how much your returns would be with insurance plans. To my surprise, there are many people who don’t know how the actual calculations are being done with their plans – they only know what is the projected amount that they would get at the end of it.

Stocking up on Tat Seng Packaging and its inventory

I am now a tiny “business owner” of carton boxes.

My new love!

I did not find much information about Tat Seng Packaging on the WWW, except for its most recent annual report released for FY2016. Even its Investor Relations website has only been last updated in 2015. But I wasn’t worried, because their business model is very straight forward and simple to understand – they produce all types of cardboard/corrugated boxes.

I mentioned the three reasons why I bought the company’s shares and I quote it here again.

September 2017 – Portfolio Updates

September was an interesting month for my portfolio. I experienced a few firsts, and I have got to say that being new in investing helps with being more cautious and less complacent about my decisions.

For the first time, I have experienced a 2-digit percentage point drop in my position with ComfortDelgro stock and learned how to deal with seeing red in my portfolio.

The problem with reading investment books – 401(k) plan

 I have a big problem when it comes to reading investment books. More often than not, the books are written by authors from the USA and many of them include the option of using the 401(k) as a tool to improve their finances, as like what a typical Singaporean would do with her CPF system. It is such a pain because I don’t know what are the actual benefits of the 401(k) and the limitations of it. I also can’t relate to the tips that the books are trying to convey no matter how many times I read it, and because of this, the usefulness of the books isn’t 100% brought out.

Thus, the birth of this post. I’m done with this. And since Miss Niao has quite a few readers from the US, I hope that this post would benefit them as well.