Investment - Dividend for Transpac

Transpac announced a distribution of 10 cents per unit.  Transpac went up 9 cents upon releasing the announcement.

Please visit SGX website for more information

Ex Date : 4 May 2010
Date Paid/Payable : 18 May 2010

Saving Tips - CITREP by IDA

I have recently come across this training incentive programme from IDA which is quite useful for people who want to upgrade theirselves with new skills.  Under this programme, you will be able to get up to 80% of the nett payable course and examination fees capped at S$3,000 per trainee. 

For more information, please visit the following URL

http://www.ida.gov.sg/Programmes/20060419151233.aspx?getPagetype=35

For enquiries, please contact:

CITREP Administrator

Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
8 Temasek Boulevard
#14-00 Suntec Tower Three
Singapore 038988
Tel: +65 6324 8737 (63-CITREP)
Fax: +65 6211 2207
Email: ida_citrep@ida.gov.sg

Investment - Portfolio Summary (15 Mar 2010 to 26 Mar 2010)

I have decided to increase the portfolio money by another 1k to 17.5k.  With the newly injected capital together with the dividend I have collected, I decided to buy 1 lot of COSCO.  With a portfolio spreading across different sector (from Telecom to REIT), I have decided to invest in shipping building and I have selected Cosco due to the fact it is one of the largest shipbuilder in the world.  And also Cosco gives yearly dividend of around 3 cents per year..

Transpac - $1.49 (3 lots) +0.020
Cambrigde - $0.455 (5 lots) +0.000
Digiland - $0.005 (100 lots) +0.000
GIL - $0.195 (14 lots) +0.000
Starhub - $2.290 (1 lots) +0.090
Thrakel - $0.075 (10 lots) +0.005
Aztech - $0.260 (5 lots) +0.020
Neratel - $0.375 (5 lots) + 0.015
Cosco - $1.25 (1 lots) +0.000

Total Capital : $17,500.00
Total Value : $18,083.53 ( Including dividend of $701.35)
Gain/(Loss) : $583.53

Investment - CIMB StarSaver Account

Saving is important but where to put your saving to generate more income is even more important.  I have invested majority of my saving into stock and unit trust as those investment will give higher return as compared to the interest rate from the saving account.  But as you know, it is very important to have part of your saving in cash for emergency situation, thus we have to put a part of our saving in normal saving account.

As you know the interest rate provided by local banks for normal saving account is very low (only 0.25%), thus I am looking for a saving account that gives a higher interest rate.  Then during the search, I noticed the StarSaver Account from CIMB.  This accounts offered an interest rate of 1.2%.  This is 5 times higher when you compared with other banks that only offered an interest rate of 0.25%.


Please refer to the following website for more information
http://www.cimbbank.com.sg/index.php?ch=sg_per_st&pg=sg_per_st_cur&ac=12&tpt=

Investment - Porfolio Summary (29 Feb 2010 to 12 Mar 2010)

Transpac - $1.47 (3 lots) -0.010
Cambrigde - $0.455 (5 lots) +0.010
Digiland - $0.005 (100 lots) +0.000
GIL - $0.195 (14 lots) +0.005
Starhub - $2.200 (1 lots) +0.060
Thrakel - $0.075 (10 lots) +0.005
Aztech - $0.240 (5 lots) +0.010
Neratel - $0.360 (5 lots) + 0.005

Total Capital : $16,250.00
Total Value : $16,545.73 ( Including dividend of $701.35)
Gain/(Loss) : $295.73