World-class investor, Jim Rogers, once remarked that “nobody wants to be farmers anymore” because of changing lifestyle and rapid affluence among agricultural countries. Due to this global trend, there is a market distortion in the commodity supply and demand. Against the backdrop of rising demand and decreasing supply, commodity stocks are expected to do well in the long-run. In view of this, will Wilmar share price hit the roof in 2020? All eyes are on the upcoming mega listing of its Chinese subsidiary in China and this catalyst had led to a buoyant Wilmar share price for the past few months. Question now is: will Wilmar share price hit the peak of $7.00 in 2010? That was when crude palm oil price was peaking due to oil price hitting USD100 per barrel. Fast forward ten years later,

With the signing of the US-China Phase 1 trade deal this week, a corner seems to have turned for trade tensions that began nearly 2 years ago, when US President Trump he would begin to levy tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines from China, and the subsequent escalation on both sides. These trade tensions and tariffs among two of the worlds largest economies had far-reaching consequences, including in Singapore, where 22% of Singapore’s nominal Gross Domestic Product comes from Manufacturing. Despite these challenges, the Manufacturing sector on SGX have remained robust, with some counters seeing healthy growth. For this week’s instalment of 4 Stocks This Week, we will examine four companies with manufacturing businesses and good showings. Read Also: Creating Your Invest

The Straits Times Index (STI) comprises the 30 largest and most actively traded stocks in Singapore. They include well-known Singapore companies such DBS, SingTel, CapitaLand, Keppel Corp and Wilmar. This is why it is often used as the benchmark return for Singapore investors. Investors who are experienced or prefer to embark on active investment strategies will try to beat the benchmark returns, while new investors or those who prefer to embark on a passive investment strategy will try to match the benchmark return. The simplest way to match the benchmark return will typically invest in the STI exchange traded fund (ETF) – either the SPDR STI ETF or the Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF. Read Also: SPDR STI ETF VS Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF: What’s The Difference Between These 2 Straits Time

The weekly 4 Stocks This Week column on DollarsAndSense was started in 2017 with a simple objective was simple: to provide a convenient read each week for busy investors to stay updated with what is happening on the Singapore Exchange. 4 Stock This Week is not a recommendation from us to buy or sell any of the stocks that wke feature. Its purpose is to highlight interesting stocks that investors should be aware of, rather than to analyse these stocks. For this week’s edition, instead of the usual coverage of four stocks, we’ll do a year in review of the other 51 instalments of 4 Stocks This Week that our team has written in 2019. Over the past year (51 weeks), we’ve covered 123 SGX-listed stocks, 4 ETFs and 8 Daily Leverage Certificates. The most covered stock was Sas

Regular readers know that I have been a Wilmar shareholder for many years. It is difficult not to find Wilmar impressive as a business entity with its breadth and depth of activities. Many years of Mr. Market's pessimism towards Wilmar gave... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Today, we are going to share with you how to invest your CPF investment money in a no-brainer way. The best part? You need not be financial savvy to do this. A beginner can do it! And I’ll reveal the exact step-by-step process, which you can follow easily. What is CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS)? It is to provide option to CPF members to invest their CPF savings in your Ordinary Account (OA) and Special Account (SA) in various instruments such as insurance products, unit trusts, fixed deposits, bonds and shares in Singapore. The Average CPF Interest Rate is 2.5% to 4% for Ordinary Account. Check their latest CPF interest rate here. Below is the latest CPF rate (1st Oct to 31st Dec 2019).   Share this Infographic On Your Site </p><br /><br /><br /><br /&

It was around this time last year when the SGX Bull Charge Stock Challenge competition was held and I participated in the competition which lasts about 2.5 months.It was heavily contested with more than 136 participants competing for the main prize.I managed to lead the competition for most of the period until the very last day when another contestant Thebearprowl leaped over the first position and took the champion.I wasn't upset (though felt a bit disappointed to give up the lead) about losing to another great competitor and was glad that I have a lot of takeaway I could learn from the competition itself.Today, Thebearprowl and I are very close friends where we shared a private chatgroup to discuss on stocks and companies that have potentials to outperform.2018 SGX Bull Charge Stock Chal

Founded in 1991, Wilmar International Limited is a leading agribusiness group in Asia. As of 23 September 2019, Wilmar is worth US$23.9 billion in market capitalisation and is one of the 30 largest listed companies on the SGX and a constituent of the Straits Times Index. In this article, I’ll cover Wilmar’s latest annual results, growth plans and stock valuation. Here are 10 things to know about Wilmar before you invest: 1. Wilmar derives revenue from four key segments: Tropical Oils, Oilseeds and Grains, Sugar, and Others (Fertiliser & Ship-Chartering Services). Below is a segmental breakdown of Wilmar’s 2018 revenue: SegmentRevenue (US$ millions)Percentage of Total Revenue Tropical Oils16,94538.1% Oilseeds and Grains22,47250.5% Sugar4,0149.0% Othe

This article was first published on 20 February 2019 and contains links to our affiliate partners. DollarsAndSense receives a share of revenue from your sign-ups. Adopting a disciplined approach to invest a fixed sum of our salary each month can help us start our investing journey and grow our wealth in the long term. Investing this way has two main benefits: 1) we do not time the market and 2) we are able to conveniently achieve dollar cost averaging (DCA). Timing The Market If we are trying to time the market, we will only invest when we think the markets are at a low or when they are going up. It’s virtually impossible for even the best fund managers and investors, let alone average investors like us, to determine when markets are at their troughs or when they are going to spik

The commodities sector can be notoriously volatile, as prices of commodities such as coffee, palm oil and sugar may experience rapid fluctuations in response to supply and demand issues. Aside from crop-specific issues, there are also cyclical swings in each commodity based on the supply-demand situation at any point in time. For investors who plan to invest in the commodities sector, a key aspect to look out for is whether companies are still caught in the downcycle, as this means that they will suffer from a combination of low demand and high cost prices. One way to analyse this is to look at a group of such companies to ascertain if conditions are indeed better for all players, or if there is still significant stress within the system. In order to determine if commodity companies are s

Wilmar International’s (Wilmar) latest 2Q19 quarterly results were kind of disappointing. Affected by lower crush margins attributable to the impact of African swine fever on soybean meal demand and recognized losses due to the consolidation of Shree Renuka Sugars, the group’s net profit for the quarter sank 52.3 percent to US$150.9 million. The less-than-satisfactory results, coupled with negative investors’ sentiments around the protests in Hong Kong, escalating US-China trades conflicts and the inversion of yield curve in the US, have caused Wilmar’s share price to tank more than 8.8 percent after reaching a historical high of $4.08 on 30 July 2019. The weakness in the share price got us interested in this counter. We are tempted to jump into this stock but let us take a deeper

In recent weeks, the stock markets have been increasingly volatile. This should also come as no surprise to those following the markets, as the on-again-off-again US-China trade war saga continues with new vigour, an ongoing slowdown in the global economy, the yet unresolved Brexit, an rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. In Singapore, this has seen our benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) sink close to 5.0% in the past month, as well as higher volatility in the 2ndquarter of 2019. This can be seen in the graph below, depicting the STI’s steep climb at the start of April 2019, slumping in the month of May, recovering in June and July, and finally sinking in recent weeks. Source: SGX Given the volatile markets since May and the poor start to August, we have highlighted companie