Updates for Nov 2017

November is a busy month with most stocks paying out dividends and also the start of the school holiday for Child 1. Time is spent entertaining the demanding Child 1 and handling the increased mobility of Child 2 as she is now one year old. 

笨mummy went on a 4D3N family trip to Hong Kong and there was so much preparation work as she brought two children and Child 2, just passed her old year birthday, is still having special dietary requirements - no salt, no processed food. It is good to write a post to record down this for reference for future family trips. 

 

In term of financial wise, 笨mummy had:

• Added 6,500 units of Ascendas REIT at S$2.73 before XD. 

• Subscribed to Keppel-KBS US REIT IPO and wasted $2. But 笨mummy is still looking out to add this via the open market at a later date. 

• Opened a USD high account with SCB. As 笨mummy just got her priority status with SCB, she could now open this USD high account to deposit USD. The benefits of this account is that there is no minimum deposit required and one can deposit physical USD with no commission once a month. She can now look at investing in some IWDA. 

• Received a substantial dividends of S$2,724.07 this month. But she is still fall short of her target of S$ 15K

Dividend / interest for month of Nov 17:  

Oxyley Bond - S$ 126.03
DBS Pref Share - S$ 236.93
FCL Treasury Bond - S$ 184.00
Hyflux Pref Share - S$ 151.23
Ascendas REIT - S$ 1,459.44
Suntec REIT - S$ 248.3
Ascendas India Trust - S$ 281.00
Mapletree GCC Trust - S$ 37.14

Dividend received in Year 2014	$ 8,241.99
Dividend received in Year 2015	$ 8,978.59
Dividend received in Year 2016	$ 12,145.15
Dividend received in Nov 2017	$ 2,724.07
Dividend received in Year 2017 to date	$ 12,566.04

Updates for Oct 2017

笨mummy had taken some actions in Oct:

• She sold 1,000 units of Keppel Corp shares at $7.10 on 19 Oct 2017. After the sales, she still has 2,000 unit of Keppel Corp shares with an average cost of S$ 7.90. On hindsight, she should have wait for a few days before she sell as the price went up all the way to $7.6. 

• She received $10,000 cash from the redemption of Genting Preference Shares. She was upset that the company decided to recall the preference shares, otherwise the payout of 5.125% is rather attractive compare to the current deposit interest rate from banks.  Meanwhile she is still exploring where to put this additional fund. 

Dividend / interest for month of Oct 17:  

Genting Perf Share - S$ 256.95
Perennial Bond - S$ 139.88
Hyflux pref share - S$ 90.25

Dividend received in Year 2014	$ 8,241.99
Dividend received in Year 2015	$ 8,978.59
Dividend received in Year 2016	$ 12,145.15
Dividend received in Oct 2017	$ 480.08
Dividend received in Year 2017 to date	$ 9,841.97