its because SC not many place have... not that convenient 

forget to tell you i worked at SG 

Hi prince,

For me, when I attend an AGM, I get a feel of how the company is like, the attitude of the BOD, etc, etc,...I guessed it depends on the individual,... for myself, when I get to 'feel the directors, I will start to get more insights into whether that is the correct company to invest into or not.

Then of course, there are ther more normal activities that we can do like voting (if we are not attending as observers), asking questions and listening to presentations.

All in, I think it's important,.....

SC is nominee account ...hence those dividend they will charge?

some of the nominee account yes... but some of the firm are doing promotion... no charges any handling fees...

hahaha... prince... we are same... cannot afford to pay them $ 18 - $ 25...

SCB army  , it helps me to save more on broker fees since my transact amount not more than $8k each time (0.2% Comm) unless you are big player.

fsm SG lo, you know wad.    and msia property.    foreign currency like USD consider boh?

Yay, managed to set up my foreign trading acc with PIBB. Hoooraah!
Will trade or invest if a "compelling" buy arises. So sifu sekalian, don't mind if I discuss some of the stocks that I'm interested in with u guys from time to time ya.

hahaha... prince... we are same... cannot afford to pay them $ 18 - $ 25...

dividend but yield getting low will surely throw.

ya. few of them. But only focus on Suntec! 

Congrats everybody,... spirit is high,...

AGM Season in SG for April,....so,...very busy for now,....

how was the outlook after attend AGM? I have some Cache too, price slowly creeping up recently. 

I keep my M1 for div.. their div still look decent to me.. my average price is at 2.75.... waiting ...waiting price for drop to average down more...   

*I'm a M1 loyalty user 5 years long....

Prince and yck,...it's going to be a hard fight for Cache,...the macro environment is really against them.

Sell cheaper to me , pls 😆

For certain REITs and KepCorp, Entry Price is important. This morning, I keep reiterating that Entry Price is important. This came about from the few AGMs that I attended the last few days.

However,.................if the price has a strong tendency to keep dropping, then an investor must be more of a speculator in order not to lose money. He must know when to pull-out, and to cutloss bravely.

HPH Trust AGM tomorrow morning, a counter denominated in the USD, with bad financials, and dropping divvy since 2012.

Divvy is paid out in the HKD, and can be asked to be converted into the SGD or the USD upon payout from HK. One can be careful enough to ask for the divvy to be paid out in the original currency of the payout, ie the HKD, and to be dropped into a HKD foreign currency account.

When the exchange rate is in favour of the HKD over the SGD or the USD, then the investor can ask fro the divvy to be converted into the required currency. An investor will therefore need to know the exchange rate movement of the HKD, vs the SGD and the USD.

To a large extent, the HKD is 'pegged' to the USD, hence there is a safety margin here, which makes the divvy quite attractive. But the calculation of yield tends to be affected by the USD-HKD Exchange Rate because :-

1) the price of the unit is in the USD, and

2) the divvy is denominated in the HKD.

At the current interbank exchange rate today for the USDHKD of 7.7557, the total DPU payout of 34.40 HK Cts turns out to be USD 0.04435. Dividing this DPU by the last traded price of HPH Trust = USD0.04435 / USD0.500 provides a yield of 8.871%, a very acceptable yield, in my opinion.

One can take the view that there is currency risk in this yield, HOWEVER, one can also take a view that the exposure to the Hong Kong Dollar is A MEANS OF DIVERSIFICATION into a respectable currency, the HK Dollar. Frankly, I wouldn't mind holding the HK Dollar.

The AGM tomorrow is going to be very important - if the BOD is able to convince us/me that there are bright spots ahead in spite of the challenging numbers in the financial reports, then I will invest further into this counter, as a vehicle for investing my USD holdings and an instrument for me to collect more HKD.