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Saturday, 1 November 2025

My Investment Portfolio - SG (End Oct 2025)

Transactions:

- Added 5,000 units of Keppel DC Reit at $2.24 via Preferential Offering.
- Sold 5,800 units of Lendlease Reit at $0.65

Mapletree Industrial Trust which was previously my top holding in April 2025, was overtaken by DBS in May 2025. In the month of October it was overtaken by both Keppel Ltd and Keppel DC Reit too. The stock price of Keppel Ltd has been climbing up in recent months.

I am very happy to be allotted quite abit of my excess bid for Keppel DC Reit recent Preferential Offering. Resulting in it climbing up to become my third biggest holding. Meanwhile, I have also decided to sell of Lendlease Reit which has not been underperforming. I need to trim down my number of stocks as it has creeped up a fair bit and it is hard to monitor so many holdings.

I did not receive any dividends in the month of October, I am expecting a bumper dividends in December. Hopefully it comes true.

Meanwhile, my warchest is ready and I am waiting for the US Government to restart operations and provide the economic data. Am ready to buy the dip!

Dividends received* during the month: $0

Total dividends received in 2025: $20,124.26

Average dividends per month^: $1,677.02

Total Portfolio Market Value: $532,120.82

* Dividends are recognised after payment date. Average dividends per month is calculated by dividing the dividends received by 12 months regardless of the month.

Portfolio excludes Singapore Savings Bonds, T-bills and Foreign Stocks

^ Divided by 12 months regardless of month of the year.

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

My Investment Portfolio - SG (End Sep 2025) - new milestones!

Realised that I missed out updating my portfolio for end of August. Hence, this post consist of the transactions and dividends received in August and September 2025.

From: StocksCafe

Transactions:

- Allotted 5,000 units of Astrea9A2 5.7%400808 (USD) through the IPO in Aug 2025.
- Bought 2,000 units of Sembcorp Ind in Sep 2025.
- Added 150 units of Lendlease Reit at $0.5323 via Scrip Dividends
- Allotted 2,500 units of Centurion Accommodation Reit at $0.88 through IPO in Sep 2025.

In the past two months, I participated in two IPOs namely the Astrea9A2 and Centurion Accommodation Reit. What was partciularly disappointing was the amount of units allotted for the reit. I balloted for 50,000 units and while I knew that the allotted number of units will be low, I did not expect 2,500 units.

I have also just realised that I have crossed two significant milestones. The first milestone is that my personal portfolio value has crossed the half a million mark (i.e. crossed $500,000). I am sitting on a unrealised gain of around $70,000, which means all I need is some negative news and the market turn and I will be below this milestone.

The second milestone is that I have collected more than $100,000 of dividends since I started this journey in 2011. In fact, I have collected $117,000 of dividends as of end September 2025. Bearing unforeseen circumstances, I will collect around $120,000 of dividends by end 2025 (unless there are many scrip dividends scheme).

It has been a long journey, a slow but rewarding one. I will need to stay grounded because all I need is for the market to turn the tide and I will below the half a million portfolio value again. This is a given and not a matter of if but when.

Dividends received* during the month: $7,380.53 (CapLand Ascott Trust, Wilmar, Comfortdelgro, IREIT, DBS, OCBC, Keppel, Singtel, CapitaChina, Lendlease Reit, Keppel Reit, CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust, Keppel DC Reit, Mapletree Com, MLT, ST Engineering, MIT, Ascendas Reit)