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Ship owning: an investment warning?

by Leigh Shore | Jun 24, 2020 | Investor's Notebook

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 25TH SEPTEMBER 2017 Shipping carries over 90% of world trade. Until anti-gravity transport is invented nothing will replace it. This island race has salt water and shipping in our veins and history. As befits our special relationship with...

Singapore REITs #2

by Kenny Loh | Aug 8, 2018 | The Fund Manager

In my last article for The Property Chronicle, I gave an overview on: The definition REITs (Real Estate Investment Trust) The reasons to invest in REITs as an alternative to physical real estate investment The Benefit and drawback on investing in REITs In this article...

Greed and fear in the global stock market

by Matein Khalid | Nov 21, 2017 | The Macro View

US and global equities surged on news that the US House of Representatives passed the tax reform bill, Cisco and Walmart posted blowout earnings and a potential bidding war emerged for Fox’s media assets. The rally on Thursday followed a week of carnage in the US high...

Have you missed the Great Singapore Sale?

by Kok Keong Tan | Sep 27, 2017 | Investor's Notebook

As I read the billion dollar bids for land in Singapore and new launches of private apartments selling out in three days, I began to wonder whether the government has expanded the retail-driven Great Singapore Sale to the residential property market and I have missed...

Democratising real estate via blockchain: the example of FundPlaces

by Kok Keong Tan | Jul 6, 2017 | Technology

Kok Keong Tan is the co-founder of FundPlaces, an alternative investment platform for real estate. I embarked on a different type of real estate journey three years ago, setting out to change how people invest in real estate. My team and I saw how our daily lives have...