The Fifth Person has been nominated in the ‘GoTo.com’ category for the 2020 SGX Orb Awards organised by the Singapore Exchange! The award recognises the independent investment-related website or financial blog that most empowers investors to make educated decisions with their money. The Fifth Person first won the award at the inaugural 2018 SGX Orb Awards and we’re honoured to be nominated for the award again this year, along with DollarsAndSense and Investor-One. The 2020 SGX Orb Awards also features four other award categories – Story of the Year, #Resilience, The Hidden Gem, and The Visual Treat — and nominees include The Business Times, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, The Edge, DealStreetAsia, and Venture Views. Story of the Year This category seeks a news story, f

During crisis, a consumer may not able to afford luxury products but still need to eat and drink to survive. Therefore, an investor may consider 48 Food & Beverage (F&B) stocks in Singapore, especially those defensive growth stocks. In this article, you will learn from Dr Tee on 9 Singapore F&B Giant Stocks which are efficient in making money with food as essential products (consumer staples) but having mixed impacts during COVID-19 stock crisis. Bonus for readers who could read the entire article: a strategy to eat and drink for free for lifetime. 1) Supermarket F&B Stocks – Sheng Siong (SGX: OV8) – Dairy Farm International (SGX: D01) 2) Restaurant F&B Stocks – Japan Foods Holding (SGX: 5OI) – Old Chang Kee (SGX: 5ML)

Food Empire CEO Sudeep Nair’s fortuitous, and somewhat unexpected, career journey – one that spanned three decades – first began with a switch from coding to computers, then to coffee. A software programmer by training, Nair realised early on that this role wasn’t his cup of tea, and turned to computer equipment sales. It was during one of his buying trips to Bangkok in 1992 that he crossed paths with Food Empire Chairman Tan Wang Cheow, who then was running a consumer electronics dealership. The pair hit it off, and the following year, Nair decided to throw in his lot with Tan. “Our business focused on exporting electronics goods like disk drives, printers and PCs to Eastern Europe. As it was a pure trading model, operating conditions could be brutal,” Nair recalled. “It