Singapore’s manufacturing sector remains a major growth driver for the economy. According to data from the Economic Development Board, overall output rose 11.1 percent in May 2018, defying expectations of a slowdown. While the growth was not across the board, the key electronics cluster registered a 17.1 percent expansion in output. Semiconductors performed well with a robust growth of 26.9 percent, up from 15 percent in April 2018. The rest of the electronic segments registered a decrease in output. Since our previous coverage in July 2017, Hi-P International’s (Hi-P) share price has increased by over 40 percent to $1.30 at the time of writing. Although the current price is a steep drop from its 52-week high of $2.72 recorded in March 2018, investors who picked up their shares

Three companies will be going ex-dividend on Tuesday, 19 June 2018. In other words, you need to own shares in the company before that day to receive their dividends. Let’s check out those companies. Asian Pay Television Trust (SGX: S7OU) Asian Pay Television Trust is Asia’s first listed business trust focused on pay-TV businesses. The trust’s sole investment currently, Taiwan Broadband Communications Group, is a leading cable operator in Taiwan. Asian Pay Television Trust is dishing out 1.625 Singapore cents per unit for the second quarter. For the three months ended 31 March 2018, total revenue slipped 7.7% year-on-year to S$60.7 million while EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) came down 7% to S$45.5 million. The poor performance was on the back

Hi everyone,Here is my update of my portfolio after a series of announcement on their results which I have some issues.Global Investment LimitedThey have made an announcement which I am quite disappointed especially when they cut their dividend to 0.5 cents per half year. Thus, we are looking only at less than 7% yield from a level of over 8% yield. Originally, I do have a holdings of about 1,100,000 shares. Thus, I have reduced my holdings by 500,000 shares so now I am holding on to about 610,000 shares. I sold them at $0.144, netting $72,000 back.Sabana REITAt the same time, I used up some of my CPF to purchase Sabana REIT (about 55,000 shares). Their yield is about 8% and they are still trading at a 20% discount to NAV. Thus, I thought that the metrics are good and stable so I purchased