You will have to monitor consistently in case the fundamentals change for these counters :-

1) CUP.
2) GEM.

Gem is GEM Education Group, with many childcare centers in Australia and Sgp. YOU can 'get a feel' of this counter by observing the performance in Sgp too....

NAB order clicked again this morning,...

So how does ASX tax affects us Malaysians? Any idea? Hansel now that DBS is charging for MCA, how do you buy your ASX?

Will try to open Stanchart this trip with their online trading. Can save a few cost SGD18 > SGD10. SGD8/transaction. There a Stanchart at MBFC too but different tower

I believe so ... but let the sifus who had experience in ASX  confirm...

For Aus tax residents it is good cos the franked portion of the dividend can be deducted against ur personal income tax ..eg: if franked dividend is 100% and ur personal income tax in aus is 40%, u will pay only 10% tax on the dividend u received cos 30% tax is alreaady incurred on the dividend at corporate level...not sure I used the right terms above, but something like that...

If anybody managed to open,... I'll give some ctrs to start with,... 

Link does not work ? Sorry,...

The dps has been halved for the time being,...though unaudited profit increased,...that's the bad news. The restructuring is underway. As mentioned in the article :-

'Profit from Operations before Income Tax of between 5% and 8% for the HY2017. This half year result is after a preliminary provision of $1.1m in relation to the TFS matter and an impairment of $780,000 for an operating subsidiary.'

To me,.. I'm glad I bought low, non-resident yield is at 6.5%, resident yield is at 8.7%.

Continuing to earn the Aussie Dollar at a minimum of 6.5% is okay, paying out 4x a year, for a company that is run by accountants and continuing to earn profit.

I had a quick look at RFG, comments :-

1) yes, growing dpu since Mar 2007. I must say the chart is really impressive.

2) but : the grossed-up dpu amount only yields 6.43%, with the normal yield at only 4.50% at a price of $6.11. Even if the dpu keeps growing through the years, it will still take sometime to reach 7.50% normal yield, IF EVERYTHING PROGRESSES WELL CONTINUOUSLY.

...bUT if something negative happens,  causing the dpu to be reduced, then the yield will drop down from 4.50% (which is already low enough). Any further drops from 4.50% will make it 'unworthy' as a yield/income stock. Of course, the price will also drop when the dpu reduces, then we might suffer capital loss too in this process if the yield doesn't reduce too much.

Either way,...  ,... this stock looks risky towards the ROI for my bullets,... don't know if I'm clear in my explanations,...

Actually fool.com.au is probably commenting as an Aussie investor while bro Hansel is analyzing as a foreign player.
Each will have different set of ROI expectations. Aussies are probably happy with a net 4% yield.

Well,... after the 'confirmation event' of rate hike last Friday night,... the ASX' Indices dropped till now,... BUT my ctrs held on,...

Only 1 REIT seems to have dropped,...

NO chance to average down,...

Sure bro,... I hold the following REITs :-

CMW, CMA, CIP (used to be TIX). Let me know what you think of them after you do your research,....

Well,... I expected you to say the above,.. I respected yr spirit too,... willing to go so far to do this,....just remember that yr interest earned will be taxed at 10%. To ensure yr acct is alive when the day comes for you to use it,... pls do some transactions.

Well,... I expected you to say the above,.. I respected yr spirit too,... willing to go so far to do this,....just remember that yr interest earned will be taxed at 10%. To ensure yr acct is alive when the day comes for you to use it,... pls do some transactions.

Don't know. Open account first before they close doors. No harm open account first. Right now AUD is more expensive vs SGD (if use RM)

Later decide as kind of broke (no more money after converting to SGD) When AUD weaken (they are too dependant on china), and it will, will look at next course of action.

I have limited ammo you know (as an ex-student)

Not yet fly. I have enough ammo for one final round of change. AUD/SGD. After that I am completely broke. After all flying down to AU is a one time thing.

Then again, most people trade in US/HK without opening bank account in that country.

If opening account, I rather AU then HK as HK is like SG. Hard to open. AU is easy (from what I read).
If investment wise, I would like HK over AU as no with holding tax and according to bloomberg or something, HK markets are markets which give one of the highest return. HK broker easy to open.

Decisions... Decisions...

First I don't have anybody in AU.
Second, see here.
https://www.ig.com/au/create-account
Before we activate your account, Australian regulations require that we verify every client's identity.

You can find information on the easiest way to verify your identity below.

Please send a photo of the required documents to accountopening.au@ig.com or upload through the trading platform.
https://www.ig.com/au/proof-of-identity-new

Bonus:
Opening account with 8 Securities (HK)
(i) Can I open an account from overseas?
(ii) How do I open an account?
(ii) How do I submit my completed application?

If SG, HK (8securities, chief), US (IB, TDameritrade, etc) can open via mail, what makes you think AU cannot? 

That's why I asked you. Worth to open AUD account or not or a broker account is enough?

Mkt could be dropping,... chances to buy could be appearing,...