The Weekly Horse: Debrief on Astrea IV Bonds

Debrief on Astrea IV Bonds For those who are not aware, the retail offering of the S$121 million Class A-1 Bonds was 7.4 times oversubscribed....

Mapletree Logistics Trust vs Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust

REITs have been getting a lot of flak recently due to the rising interest rates. A lot of investors out there have been swearing...

The Weekly Horse: Responding to Criticism on Temasek’s Astrea IV Bonds

Criticism on the Astrea IV Bonds Given the massive debate over Temasek's 4.35% p.a. Astrea IV Class A-1 Secured Bonds that is raging on this...

Temasek’s 4.35% p.a. Astrea Bonds: A free lunch in investing?

Unless you've been living under a rock the past week, you've probably heard of Temasek's 4.35% p.a. Astrea IV Class A-1 Secured Bonds. In...

The Weekly Horse: Should you sell your Jurong Property?

All Financial Horse does in his free time during the week is read financial news. With this new initiative, hopefully some good can come...

Ideal Asset Allocation by Age for Singaporeans

The very first article I wrote for Financial Horse was on the ideal net worth allocation by age for Singaporeans. Many times, we as...

The Weekly Horse: An Angry Email from AutoWealth and thoughts on FAANG

All Financial Horse does in his free time during the week is read financial news. With this new initiative, hopefully some good can come...

Netlink Trust: A buy after the current dip?

At its current price of S$0.78, assuming a 4.64 cents yield for FY2019 (from the IPO prospectus), Netlink Trust (CJLU.SI) is trading at a...

The Weekly Horse: My thoughts on iQiyi (the Netflix of China)

All Financial Horse does in his free time during the week is read financial news. With this new initiative, hopefully some good can come...

Why Bitcoin has a place in my diversified portfolio

I know what many readers are probably thinking. Financial Horse has finally gone off the rafters. Bitcoin in his diversified portfolio alongside stocks, REITs,...

Stock Brokers I use to replace Standard Chartered Online Trading (FH referral bonus)

Financial Horse x Saxo Affiliate Link If you’re keen on opening a Saxo account, Financial Horse has partnered with Saxo for a special affiliate promotion: Financial...

StashAway: Responses from the CEO and my thoughts

My previous article on 3 Reasons Why I will not invest my life savings with StashAway must have gotten around, because shortly after, the...

How I plan to invest my En-Bloc Proceeds

I received this question recently on the Financial Horse Forums: Hi Financialhorse. My investment property is going enbloc. I do not intend to buy back...

10 Stocks to buy in the next market crash

I recently chanced across an article by Turtle Investor where he described what he would do with his robo investments if the market crashed...

DIY portfolio to outperform Robo-advisers?

In the earlier part of this series, I examined StashAway and AutoWealth and explained why Financial Horse would not use a robo-adviser in its...

Comparing Autowealth vs StashAway

My previous article on StashAway produced a lot of great feedback and debate from readers. Big shoutout to all readers of Financial Horse, great...

MGCCT’s acquisition of a Japan Portfolio: Why this Unitholder is pleased

Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust (MGCCT) recently announced that it would be acquiring a portfolio of six freehold commercial real estate assets located in...

Alibaba: Is Asia’s E-Commerce juggernaut worth a buy?

As at 13 April 2018, Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) closed at USD 172.04, which is 42 times trailing twelve month (TTM) P/E...

Part II: My take on StashAway

In Part I of this Article, I described what I disliked about StashAway. In Part II, I will mention what I liked about this...

My take on StashAway + Promo Code

Introduction I saw a question on the Seedly Facebook Group recently that really got me thinking: “Hi everyone, I would like to find out which mode...

Reflections on the GRE

I took the GRE recently because I have been thinking of doing a postgraduate degree. I’ve completed the entire experience, and wanted to document...

DBS Bank Ltd: Is this 4.3% yielding bank stock a buy?

DBS Group Holdings Ltd (D05.SI), is South East Asia’s largest bank, and one that needs no introduction to any Singaporean. This is the bank...

Sasseur REIT: Why I am so disappointed by this 7.5% yielding China REIT

Dear Sasseur REIT, I had such great hopes when I first read about you. The first outlet mall REIT to be listed in Singapore, with...

En blocs: Everything you need to know to avoid getting screwed by your neighbours

The number one thing that all Singaporeans love (even more than stocks and REITs) is property. Start a debate about property valuations or HDBs...

Cash Buffer: Why you need one, and how to maximize yield

There are two fundamental rules in investing to abide by: Over the long run, a broad diversified portfolio of equities or real estate will...