STE's Stocks Investing Journey

<Image Credit : Investopedia.com>      This year should be a good year for SGX as we           have seen many   IPOs in the first half of 2017 and       as for retail investors, many  should be excited          busy pressing button at ATM to apply for the              IPOs, expecting to have some quick bucks if successfully being allocated with some share. The latest one will be the hottest in the market of “NetLink Trust “ which expected to raise up to $2.6 Bil from the IPO ( detail here ).

As investors, when we think about Risk-Reward analysis, the first thing pops up in our mind automatically will be the word “ diversification”.   This is what been mentioned in Investopedia about the importance of Diversification : "Diversification is a technique that reduces  risk  by allocating investments among various financial instruments, industries and other categories. It aims to maximize  return  by investing in different areas that would each react differently to the same event.

If you are looking for investing ideas or methods of successful investment, guess you will often hear this in any investment seminars, talks or even encountered this many times in newspaper or blogs, i.e “ Investing is simple, not easy” , t he famous quote from our legendary and super-investor Warren Buffet . As human nature, we like to simplify things which are complicated such as investing in simple DIY version of 1-2-3. You may find many articles as below in financial news or portal which simplify the investment ideas or philosophy into point form for easy understanding. ** Please click the underline number if wish to read the full articles and all credit goes to authors of these articles. 2 Important Factors in Finding Winning Investments     The 3 most important things you need to consider when investing 4 things smart investors look for in annual reports The 5 Most Important Factors for Your Investment Success Warren Buffett Say...

Had seen many bloggers busy updating their portfolio recently right after the last day of June, allow me to come and join the party. Thank GOD , there was no market crash in 1 st HF of 2017 and in fact,  STI has outperformed many regional peers with returned of close to 13% YTD ( excluding Dividend Yield of around 3-3.5 % which is also one of the highest among Asian bourses ).