Singapore REIT Fundamental Analysis Comparison Table – 6 Aug 2018

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FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) rebounded from 786.10  to 802.53 (+0.89%) as compared to last post on Singapore REIT Fundamental Comparison Table on July 1, 2018.  The REIT index has moved above the 800 neckline support of the Head and Shoulders chart pattern, but rejected at the 200D SMA resistance at about 820.

Immediate crucial support level to watch is 800. If this 800 neckline support is broken, the target of this Head and Shoulders chart pattern break down is 740. The next immediate resistance turned support zone is at 770-780 level.

Short to Medium Term Singapore REIT direction: Side way to Down.

 

Fundamental Analysis

  • Price/NAV stays at to 1.00 (Singapore Overall REIT sector is at fair value now).
  • Distribution Yield decreases from 6.76% to 6.66% (take note that this is lagging number). About one third of Singapore REITs (14 out of 40) have Distribution Yield > 7%.
  • Gearing Ratio decreases from 34.7% to 34.5%.  22 out of 40 have Gearing Ratio more than 35%. In general, Singapore REITs sector gearing ratio is healthy.
  • Most overvalue REIT is Parkway Life (Price/NAV = 1.57), followed by Keppel DC REIT (Price/NAV = 1.39), Ascendas REIT (Price/NAV = 1.35) and Mapletree Industrial Trust (Price/NAV = 1.34).
  • Most undervalue (base on NAV) is Fortune REIT (Price/NAV = 0.61), followed by  Starhill Global REIT (Price/NAV = 0.74), Far East Hospitality Trust (Price/NAV = 0.76), OUE Comm REIT (Price/NAV = 0.74) and EC World REIT (Price/NAV = 0.76).
  • Highest Distribution Yield (TTM) is Lippo Mall Indonesia Retail Trust (9.24%), followed by SoilBuild BizREIT (8.42%), Viva Industrial Trust (8.35%), Cromwell European REIT (8.49%), EC World REIT (8.44%), Sasseur REIT (8.22%) and Cache Logistic Trust (8.09%).
  • Highest Gearing Ratio are OUE Comm REIT (40.3%) and iREIT Global (40.5%)

Disclaimer: The above table is best used for “screening and shortlisting only”. It is NOT for investing (Buy / Sell) decision. To learn how to use the table and make investing decision, Sign up next REIT Investing Seminar here to learn how to choose a fundamentally strong REIT for long term investing for passive income generation.

 

  • 1 month increases from 1.40050% to 1.50208%
  • 3 month increases from 1.52038% to 1.62883%
  • 6 month increases from 1.66171% to 1.74750%
  • 12 month increases from 1.85065% to 1.95321%

 

Summary

Fundamentally the whole Singapore REITs is at fair value now.  Overall yield for Singapore REIT is still attractive (average yield of 6.66%). Yield spread (reference to 10 year Singapore government bond) is 4.183%. DPU yield for a number of small and mid cap REITs are quite attractive (>7%) at the moment.  However, technically, the REIT index is forming a Head and Shoulder trend reversal chart pattern and trading on downtrend. More down side is expected if the 800 support level is broken. It is time to get our watch list ready if the REIT sectors continue to correct to an attractive entry level.

 

See all other relevant  Singapore REITs blog posts here.

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Why It’s Better To Get Trading Software Like Fintech LTD

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By Joan Katz

The hype around cryptocurrency trading may not be as strong as it used to but it’s definitely still way off the roof! What many people see in cryptocurrency is opportunity – to trade, to innovate, to earn. Many software developers have come to see this opportunity too and so, they sought out a program that will be accepted by the cryptocurrency trading community. Unsurprisingly, what they managed to create wasn’t just accepted – it became a necessity to trading.

Introducing cryptocurrency trading robots! Or, cryptobots for short (read more).

What if I told you that there was a safer way to secure your trading success? What if I told you that you don’t have to do the meticulous activity of trading yourself for “something else” will be doing it for you? How would you feel about winning trades 80 or 90 percent of the time?

I’m pretty sure your mind is raging about the idea. Luckily, all these things are made possible and promised to you when you manage to find yourself a superstar trading software.

How Do Trading Robots Operate?

Of course, there is more happening behind the hocus pocus of trading robots. The cryptocurrency trading system, after all, isn’t something you can easily bypass – let alone, cheat on. When you trade, you have to win everything fairly. So the question is “How?”

Trading cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Ethereum is very tricky. This is mostly because of how volatile crypto mines are. One moment, currency values skyrocket off the ceiling. After which, it can dwindle way down into the ranks. Aside from Bitcoin which has, more or less, established its market value, other types of crypto money are very rocky. Although one thing I can assure you is that they are real. So you can erase any doubts you have about cryptocurrency being a scam or fraud.

Check this article for more information about Bitcoin Volatility: https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-bitcoin-volatility/

You can also cross “gambling” off your list of what cryptocurrency is. Because I’m telling you, it might seem like a game of luck; but really, it isn’t – or at least, not entirely. Although luck (if it does exist) may be a factor on how your trades will turn out, it’s not everything there is to it. I can say with full conviction that cryptocurrency trading is not at a level of slot machines when it concerns luck. After all, it takes experience, knowledge, intuition, and a whole lot of guts to trade. It is never just about luck.

This is where cryptobots, the lovely software leading developers have created, comes into play. Cryptobots are programmed to record, analyse, learn, and create relationships out of an entire history of trading data. And this bulk of information is replenished and renewed with each and every trade people (or other robots) do everyday. Cryptobots distinguish relationships and makes sense out of various trading trends no ordinary person can. They then use this information to come up with the right trading decision. This heightens the accuracy of their trading choices and ultimately, leads to higher trading success.

Are People Capable Of Doing This Too?

Straight answer is NO. Not that I’m underestimating the intricate and talented minds people have, but logically speaking, there is no way an ordinary person can make use of trading data in a similar manner. I have two reasons to prove it:

  1. When we talk about the long history of trading data, we’re not just talking of thousands of gigabytes – we’re talking about thousands of terabytes worth of data! Cryptocurrency trading may have had its break in 2009 but it has been developed and refined long before then. And even if we were just to count from year 2009, we’re talking about 9 years’ worth of information to date (it’s 2018). It is simply not possible for a human brain to take in and process that amount of information.
  2. Say, that there is one superhuman who can run and make sense of this huge amount of data, the next hurdle is where will he or she extract such vast amounts of information? Trading data is not readily available for the public’s perusal. You need permits, licenses, and rights to access this kind of valuable information. You’ll probably consider hacking into the system and extracting the data illegally. But seriously, if cryptocurrency databases can be easily infiltrated, no sane person would consider investing in a system that carries such a huge amount of risk! You can have your own ultraprocessor installed inside your brain, but without access to the trading database, you still wouldn’t be able to put it into much use.

These are only two reasons but I do find them pretty convincing. Why go through the trouble of figuring everything out when you can just get the service from an excellent trading software developer, right?

Manual vs. Autopilot Trades

The main difference between trading with a cryptobot and without one is the Autopilot Mode. In autopilot, you can trade even with your eyes closed – literally! You can program a trading bot to keep entering trades with high probabilities for success even while you go to work, have dinner, catch a few z’s, or even while you’re on vacation! Cryptocurrency trading robots have made it possible to trade EFFECTIVELY albeit human assistance. And with it, comes a few perks:

Your Trading Decisions Become More Objective

Sometimes we think that our trading decisions are objective enough to carry us all the way to the heights of success. But this is where the problem lies, we just “think.” We don’t know for a fact whether our perception is real and accurate. After all, we are often blinded by our own thoughts to actually see what’s happening. And, we tend to realize the truth post ex facto or after the fact that we’ve been losing trades already.

With cryptobots like Fintech LTD, we can avoid such scenarios by imploring the aid of something that is neither driven nor affected by human emotions and drives. Robots don’t feel greed; they don’t fear; and they most definitely do not have biases like humans. They base their trading decisions purely on probability and will not act against fair reason. We need something as objective as robots to help us with our trading decisions – something that will not fear losing assets as much as we do.

You Increase Trade Success

Of course, with highly practical and reasonable trading robots on your side, you’re bound to win more trades. Robots evaluate previous trading data and create relationships and trends out of it in order to come up with a more accurate trading decision. When you base trading decisions on factual data, you increase your chances of being right – compared to when you based your trades on pure intuition. Cryptocurrency trading can be studied, you see. It can be analysed (read more). All you need to have is access to the right information and the capacity to make sense out of gibberish data. Trading bots have both. And so, this makes them the right candidate for any trading job.

And we’ll end here for today. Hope you had a fun and informative read!

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How Fintech is changing our financial life

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Financial technology or FinTech is going to change our way in dealing in the financial world! No if, No But, the only question is how our life will be affected and when is going to happen!

So, what is FinTech? FinTech is the short form of Financial Technology. FinTech is transforming the financial services in a way we have not seen before. In a very layman term, any services on how and where we use our money or any financial services will be impacted. Everything will eventually become faster, cheaper, simpler in our lives.

Below are some examples how our daily life evolves in future.

  • Mobile Banking:  The smartphone is becoming our bank.  People can consume financial services on the go. We no longer need to queue at the ATM machines or visit the bank branches for transaction.
  • Cashless transaction: We no longer need to bring money, credit card and even wallet. Our physical wallet will be replaced by digital wallet or e-wallet in the Mobile phone. This digital wallet or e-wallet is basically an apps to link to our bank account. Cryptocurrencies like BitCoin, Etherium, Ripple may be the currency in the very near future.
  • Cyber connectivity: The Internet has compressed time and space.  Interaction is real-time and unconstrained by physical boundaries.
  • Unlimited Brain Power and Storage: Don’t worry about our memory power when we are aging. We have unprecedented computing power. The devices in our hands or on our wrists are our 2nd brain that pack more data and more processing power than super computers just a couple of decades ago.
  • Big Data / Cloud Computing / Artificial Intelligence: You are going to hear all these alien words more and more frequently.

 

While there are so many advantages FinTech can bring to us. This new technology also brings another type of risks or threats. As every data is stored in a cloud system, cyber risk like data breaching become the biggest threats. The recent hacking of the SingHealth’s patient data is a very good example. The following are the risks we have to be aware off:

  • Personal Data / Privacy Breach: Ranges from our bank account, where we stay, what we do, how many properties we have, employment income, investment, etc.
  • Location Traceability: As we are connected through internet all the time, our location, our movement, our favourite visiting places are easily exposed and we can be easily the targets of the criminals.
  • Cyber Theft: As our digital currency and our investment are all stored in the cyber space, all our assets could be stolen easily if there is any successful hacking.

 

There is no way we can run away from this FinTech Revolution, we just have to get ourselves prepared to embrace FinTech and use FinTech to improve our productivity in everything we do. You may want to learn more about FinTech in the coming Invest Fair 2018 on Aug 25 and 26. Look for the FinTech Zone in the Invest Fair to learn more about the Digital Exchange, Crowd Funding and how the Wealth Management scene embraces FinTech. You can register the event by clicking HERE and enter promo code MYSTOCKSINVESTING to have 3x chances to win the lucky draw.

 

Register here http://sg2018.invest-fair.com/register

 

 

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