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IT WAS another relatively good week for stocks, with our portfolios advancing an average of 1.1 per cent. But this was a shade paler than the 1.2 per cent chalked up by the blue chips Straits Times Index.
Our star portfolio last week was that made up of the highest dividend yield. It advanced 1.8 per cent. The biggest contributor to the portfolio’s gain was Hong Leong Asia, which added another 4.7… more

STOCKS barely changed last week, with our portfolios edging up 0.4 per cent on average. The median gain was 0.2 per cent.

The lowest forward PE portfolio is the biggest gainer, advancing by 1.7 per cent. Two stocks contributed the bulk of the gain: China Fishery and Hong Leong Asia. The former popped 19.2 per cent while, the latter added 12.2 per cent.

Hong Leong Asia also helped lift the valu… more

EQUITY weightings of private clients’ portfolios are expected to remain elevated relative to bonds going into 2010, in a sign of continuing optimism over global growth and, in particular, growth in Asia and the emerging markets.
Strategists are less upbeat on fixed income assets, citing a backdrop of possible interest rate rises as part of central banks’ exit strategies.
So far, there are a number… more

THE weighting of Asean markets in most global portfolios seems small due to a perceived lack of investment opportunities, low liquidity and weak investor relations in the region, Singapore Exchange chief executive Magnus Bocker said yesterday.
He raised this point from an unnamed study of investor perceptions of regional markets that highlighted the attractiveness of Asean markets at the same time… more

Maybe, or maybe not.
It’s what a lot of experts are saying, and it’s what some of us who work at FSM believed will happen. So we liquidated a part of our portfolios and kept some cash, some of us as early as June 2009, and we waited for the correction to come so that we would have some cash to buy in when share prices fell.
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COMMODITY markets have had a pretty good run so far – gold hit a record US$1,070.40 per ounce over a week ago, while oil crossed US$80 a barrel last Wednesday.
Similar rallies were also seen in silver and the industrial metal copper.
Clearly, the US dollar weakness has a role to play in this as investors rebalance their portfolios to hedge against the American currency.
But beyond that, the good n… more