Jan 2016 Portfolio

Entering 2016, STI was greeted by a big bang, downwards that is. Yes, the market plunge down deep and managed to recover by a bit near to the month end of Jan 2016. My portfolio was dragged down by at least 5% just by this month alone. It was painful and like watching the market keep going down with no U-turning. Jan is an important month of a year and usually set the tone for the year. Looks like its depressing for the rest of the year.

This month I added ST Engineering into my portfolio.
STE was rather resilient and a defensive stock. I should expect market to go lower abit and hopefully buying into defensive stocks will help cushioned the bearish market. I will continue to buy into the market. This time will be focusing more on the blue chips since its rare for them to be available at the current price level.

STI vs my portfolio

My portfolio is still hovering in the negative region :( but good news is that I beat STI at least a consolation prize :)

Period	STI	My Portfolio (Realised)	Verdict
Jan 2016	-20.78%	-15.15%	I win

Total 21 stocks in portfolio



Dividend
This month I received dividends from Ascendas Reit.



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Mar 2015 Portfolio

This month, we are at the top of the charts, NASDAQ and Dow is making new highs almost everyday and Japan Nikki also making new 15 years high as they are out of recession. The market slide abit also because of worries that Fed will raise interest rate too much or too soon. And so Fed said they are not going to raise rate in 2015 as US economy was rather weak. So market reacted positively to this piece of news. This month we also lost our first PM Mr Lee Kuan Yew. I was expecting SG market to react abit to this not so sudden bad news, because PMO kept sending updates on LKY's health, everyone kinda prepared for the bad news.

Up and down, up and down as usual.

This month I added Hotung into my portfolio.
Hotung has been in my watchlist for a long time. It is a long time, diversified investment company with more than 100+ companies in its portfolio paying high dividend of 8.6% with PE 13, below NAV of PB 0.51 only and no debt :) There is a ongoing buy-back annual exercise.

Also added defensive blue chip ST Engineering into my portfolio. Doesn't have impressive PE, PBR but is consistently giving out dividends with very low debt. Cheers, I got another blue chip :)
STI vs my portfolio

This month, I lost to STI mainly due to XD of my Global Inv which is currently my largest holding. I will see a bump up next month when they give me my dividend scrips. Second Chance sees 36% fall in 2H net profit to $4.2 million and dragged down my portfolio abit. Overall STI is flaring much better than last month. Maybe better luck next month :)

Period	STI	My Portfolio (Realised)	Verdict
Jan 2015	2.71%	3.21%	I win
Feb 2015	2.41%	2.16%	I lose
Mar 2015	3.31%	0.62%	I lose

Total 13 stocks in portfolio

Dividend
This month I pocketed a little dividend from Lippo Mall Tr and Asian Pay TV Tr
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