don't forget that you may also lose out on currency exchange rate each time you do a trade, whereas if you have a sump of money you plan to invest in SGX, then you do it only one time. I think the bank's exchange rate is higher than thro a money changer.

In addition to the cross border trading brokerage each time you trade, there is also a minimum S$25 or 30 per contract that you have to pay. And I think they also charge higher comm rate and perhaps GST of 7.5%.

Well if convenience is your priority, then I have nothing to say.

yes, but as you know int rate in sg is negligible, something like 0.1 or so..., but certainly better than DBS. Even their FD is less than 1% /annum. I think most of us who park our money in singland is because we believe it has better potential to appreciate vis-a-vis our RM.

Hi guys, just wanted to ask a quick question for anyone who has used bank nominee accounts to receive dividends before. How long does it usually take to process to dividend from the entitlement date? A week has passed already for mine so I'm not sure if I should call the bank or continue waiting. Thanks in advance 

Again, Axreit reported a decrease of EPS but increase of revenue quarter report. Is it a good one? Or not so good? Was the spending mostly on renovation of its assets and purchasing of new assets? For its net assets per share, only a slight increase only. Anyone know the details, please share share here. 

For ARREIT, if the GE13 result is unpleasant to current government, will it affect ARREIT?

Newbie question on Dividend Calculation
I have 2000 shares of STAREIT... does that mean I will get
Part 1 : 20 x 0.9233 - 10% = RM16.62
Part 2 : 20 x 3.0879 = RM61.76
Total Dividend received = RM78.38

If dividend is paid via E-Dividend, how many days after the Payment Date would it be in our bank account ?

if you are not a resident in Singapore, no need to pay the 7% GST. And the gomen there don't charge stamp duty on buying n selling shares on SGX, unlike in bolehland it is RM1 for every RM1000 or part thereof. So if you buy say 1 lot of RM0.005 share (like a call warrant) you need to pay RM1 stamp duty, but the cost of 1 lot only RM0.50.

If you are planning to buy Singapore reits, I would encourage you to open a SCB online trading account in Singapore. They are taking the market by storm there. No minimum brokerage (currently others charge around S$20 minimum brokerage). Only disadvantage (or perhaps even an advantage) is that it is under SCB nominee account - no direct CDP (equivalent to KLSE CDP) account. So cannot buy IPO.

This is a one time inconvenience to go to singland with some cash with you (I think only S$1000) to open an account there.

With SCB online I only trade SGX, but you can trade HK, most major European countries and US markets with it. Thus useful to for checking real time prices of certain counters there. I think it would be less taxing to do research on just one or two exchanges, but you may have more capacity than I. In fact I'd rather just trade stocks on the KLSE and nothing else, but just don't want my money sitting pretty in SG FDs which pays less than 1% /annum.

You can chose either TAC or a token device, both have pros and cons. You do not need a SG number. A Malaysian mobile works just as well.

Hope that answers your questions.

Though this thread is about REITs, and my original purpose was to buy just SG reits with SCB online, but today my SGX portfolio has less than 50% reits. I have around 30 counters and log in once a day to place my orders. I use TA indicators (RSI, stocRSI and MACD) to help me enter and exit a position. I must say than since starting SCB online about a month ago, I've earned (counting realised gains only) many times what SG FDs would have earned me in a year.

long arreit now

sunreit selling down....anything just happend???

I also wanna invest in REIT for my first time... Plan to go OSK tomorrow and open a CDS account... Went during Monday but I don't know that I need to bring my bank passbook...

I looked at the price history of most REITs in Malaysia, the increasing price seems discouraning me to buy REITs now.    Is this a good time to invest in REITs now?

What about Starhill reit? Price around RM0.91 also, NAV is around 1.14...

What I mean is, almost all (I think is all) REITs are raising price since last year Nov and Dec... I wonder if the price will drop later. My question is... Is this a good timing to buy REITs?

So what do you think? Is there any?

NAV = Intrinsic Value right?

Net Asset is not the same as equities? 
I am on HLeB also, but which one is NAPS 

REIT is an Investment Trust so it's like a Unit Trust listed in the stock exchange, very much like Closed Ended Fund (icap). Correct me if I'm wrong