SG INVEST by ST-NEVE

The recent announcement to demerge from its parent company Sembcorp Industries made waves in the Singapore Investor Community. #SCM #sembcorpmarine #SCI There were many blogs reporting on how the recapitalisation would happen. All these opinions and advice were focus on the the demerger and speculation on whether SCM would merge with another shipyard. And there were rumours that privatisation were on the cards. What if you currently have 10 lots of SCM shares? What would you do when the rights issue goes through? Here are 3 strategies to focus on: 1. Exercise to buy the Rights Issue shares 2. Sell all at market value 3. Sell partial at market value and buy with remaining Rights Issue shares with the cash of the sold Rights Issue shares. Exercise to buy all Rights Issue Shares It's a no brainer. If SCM is offering $0.20 per share for the Rights Issue Shares, you should buy in. With 10 existing lots, you are entitled to 50 lots and that would calculate to 50,000 x $0.20 = $10,...

I spoke about the 3 Simple Ways on how to choose stocks in general. Here we will discuss in-depth on each stock that was purchased in my investment portfolio and the strategies and decisions that were employed to optimise my retirement fund. APPLE (AAPL) It was a no brainer. As I have mentioned that when there is Bad News for a Blue-Chip Stock, we must react VERY positively and Proactively Steve Jobs passing in Oct 2011 had AAPL hovering at USD 55. It was an expensive price for a stock. However, it looks like it really worth every penny when it was bought when we look back. A couple of years later, I continued to purchase until it average at USD 90. I still felt it was way too expensive for a stock and even more expensive for a phone or laptop. I still buy AAPL because Apple fans are ridiculously loyal. AMAZON (AMZN) This was on my watch list for 5 years and it was really way out of my financial capacity to buy. But 2 events happened: 1. COVID Pandemic 2. March 2020 Stock M...