My Investment Machine 2017 Year End Review

The year has flew by quickly. STI Index has inched its way up through the whole of 2017 but it never reached its peak. 

My portfolio consists of several STI comapnies but it was dragged down by several companies such as M1, Wilmar, Sembcorp Marine, Raffles Medical and Comfortdelgro. In recent days, it was dragged down by Singtel after the share XD on 18 Dec 2017 and reached its 52 weeks low at 3.59. In 2017, I received $5,518.83 of dividends. My average dividends yield has decreased slight by 0.03% while dividends received increased by 39.51% when compared to 2016. The increase in dividends received is the smallest in recent years as several companies such as Singpost and Accordia Golf Trust paid out a smaller amount of dividends. Overall, I am happy with with the progress I have made. It is a slow progress but at least it is progressing. A brief summary of my portfolio over the years is appended at the end of this post. 

In 2017, I made 11 transactions (I may make a couple more purchases as some blue chips have dropped till an attractive level. Will update at my month end post.), of which 9 transactions were buy action while 2 were sell action. While most may be surprised by the small number of trades I made, it is mainly because I am busy at work and in most cases the orders were fulfilled due to Good-Till-Date (GTD) orders, which is not ideal. 

In 2018, I will be watching for opportunities to buy First Reit and increase my stake in Raffles Medical, Comfortdelgro, Singtel, Jumbo, Old Chang Kee and Sheng Siong. Also, I am hoping that Hyflux will rebound a little so that I can sell it off as my GTD orders for this stock in 2017 was never fulfilled.

To those reading this, I hope that 2017 has been good for you! Happy investing in 2018!

Year	Dividends Received ($)	Average Portfolio Market Value ($)	Average Yield	Increase In Dividends Received	Increase In Average Portfolio Market Value
2011	172.09	4,107.27	4.19%	NA	NA
2012	554.25	19,659.28	2.82%	222.07%	378.65%
2013	561.49	26,703.02	2.10%	1.31%	35.83%
2014	1,389.09	44,591.09	3.12%	147.39%	66.99%
2015	2,233.97	59,344.17	3.76%	60.82%	33.09%
2016	3,955.89	90,149.62	4.39%	77.08%	51.91%
2017	5,518.83	126,547.24	4.36%	39.51%	40.37%
Total Dividends Received					14,385.61