By Mak Yuen Teen On December 30, 2019, Catalist-listed Advancer Global Limited announced the appointment of Lim Teck Chai, Danny as Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman. In its announcement, the company disclosed that Mr Lim is currently an independent director of four other listed companies – Choo Chiang Holdings, Kimly Limited, Stamford Land Corporation and UG Healthcare... Source

Last week BreadTalk Group Limited (SGX: CTN) announced it would open its wallet to shell out S$80 million for Food Junction. My colleague Royston described some of the salient points of the acquisition in an earlier article. In this article, I’ll take a deeper look at whether BreadTalk is overpaying for the food court operator.  Compared with previous transactions In 2013, Auric Group successfully privatised Food Junction (which was a listed company back then) by buying the remaining 39% stake in Food Junction that it did not already own. At that time Auric Group made an offer valuing Food Junction at S$30 million. In 2017, Lippo’s Riady family successfully privatised Auric Pacific Group, valuing the company at S$48.3 million. Auric Pacific Group, besides owning Food

The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) is up just 1.2% so far for the year. With the US-China trade war, Hong Kong protests, Brexit, and general economic slowdown worrying investors, it’s not surprising to see the Singapore stock market languishing. If you are looking for stock ideas amid all the macro fears, you have come to the right place. Using our data provider, S&P Global Market Intelligence, and a Magic Formula methodology popularised by Joel Greenblatt, we found some of the best stocks for the month that could go on to perform well. The basic premise of the Magic Formula is to find the 30 best shares in the market as ranked by their cheapness and their quality and to hold on to that basket of shares for a year before repeating the ranking process. For a deeper underst