Firstly, to bring my portfolio up to date:
- 30 July 2008
I graduated in 2008 and my first job began on 1 Aug 08. One of the first financial instruments I set up was an ILP with Manulife, with regular monthly premiums going into a China equity fund and a Singapore equity fund. - 16, 17 Oct 2008
Opened AUD and NZD fixed deposits respectively with OCBC under two names: my brother and I. Bought AUD at 1.0602 and NZD at 0.9208 with auto-renewal every 3 months. - 7 Jan 2009
Did a top up of my ILP China and Singapore funds - 11 May 2009
Did a top up of my ILP and bought into GEMs and India equity funds - 6 - 24 July 2009
Opened a trading account with DBSV, using ibanking cash upfront account for cheaper brokerage fees of $18 per transaction. My first trade was Golden Agri, bought at $0.33 and sold at $0.375 - 28 Aug 2009
Collected dividends from Cambridge and FCT - 2 - 9 Oct 2009
Bought Straits Asia at $2.03 and sold at $2.07 after the loading facility collapsed due to heavy rain (must thank Bernie for alerting me to this news, otherwise I would have been mong cha cha about the sudden share price plunge the following day) - 15 July - 14 Oct 2009
Bought Cambridge at $0.375 and sold at $0.45 - 26 Nov, 14 Dec 2009
Collected dividends from FCT, Suntec and PLife - 2, 15 Dec 2009
Did a fund transfer of all my existing ILP funds into a single Asia equity fund and then a partial surrender to lock in my profits from the two top ups earlier in the year. Also, switched the allocation for all my monthly premiums to the same Asia fund - 24 Dec 2009
Received advanced distribution from Mapletree due to private share placement - 20 Jan 2010
Received advanced distribution from Suntec due to private share placement - 10 Nov 2009 - 10 Feb 2010
Bought Mapletree at $0.705 and sold at $0.785 - 26 Feb 2010
Collected dividends from FCT, Suntec, PLife, Mapletree and Starhill
