Dear friends, I just want to share some lessons that I have learnt in the past few months.
I started to accumulate the 3 Mapletree REITs from April till July. Thankfully I bought in at a time when the prices were low. When the Fed cut interest rate by 50 basis points in September, the prices of the reits shot up. At the highest point, my unrealised profit was $40k.
In Oct, the prices started to come down. My mindset at that time was to hold on, afterall I was getting $3k plus ...

📰 Inflation in the US is slowing down, which is good for the economy and jobs. In September, prices likely went up just a tiny bit (0.1%), the smallest increase in three months. Over the past year, inflation is expected to be at 2.3%, the lowest since early 2021.  
When you exclude things like food and energy, prices are expected to go up slightly more (0.2% for the month and 3.2% for the year). Because job growth is still strong, this lower inflation could mean the...

S-Reits saw a net institutional inflow exceeding S$90 million in August, marking the second consecutive month of positive net inflows following July's S$15 million. In contrast, the first half of the year primarily experienced net outflows.
The iEdge S-REIT Index recorded positive returns for the second month, rising by 5.83% in August, following a 6.19% increase in July. This brings the total gain for the initial two months of the ...

September - the notoriously volatile month see the market sell-off since the 1st trading day of the month.  The CPI data released yesterday shows that inflation eases to 3-year low. Notwithstanding, the core inflation is still stubbornly above the FED's inflation goal of 2%. Hence, market is now expecting a rate cut of 25 bps instead of a larger rate cut in September.
I started to build my dividend portfolio in August 2024 with the view that a rate cut, albeit small or big, wi...