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Time really flies…we’re now in 2H 2022.

The past 6 months of 2022 have been quite a challenging time in the stock market. Interest rate hikes, Russia-Ukraine war, indexes and stock prices enter bearish territories and yes, inflation too.

We know that everyone is having a tough time for the past 2 quarters. You may have felt sad, anxious and lonely. But fret not, you’re not alone! Let’s take a deep breath, have some time for reflection, and get ourselves prepared for the next quarter!

Let’s ask ourselves these few questions below:

1) Looking at the last quarter, what has happened in the stock market? How do you cope with the bear market? How has your portfolio performed so far?

2) What have you learnt throughout the past 6 months in 2022? How long have you been investing? What’s your biggest key takeaway from the learnings in the stock market?

3) Looking forward to the next quarter of 2022, what’s your plan and strategy? What’s your expectation towards the stock market? Which sectors are you looking into and why? Share your thoughts here👇👇👇 https://www.investingnote.com/topics/5725#/all

From now to 17 July, click the link above to share your quarter review and hashtag #3Q2022reflections.

5 lucky winners will be chosen and each winner will win RM30 Touch N’ Go E-Wallet Reload Pin (Malaysian) or $10 CapitaLand Voucher (Singaporean) 🤩🤩🤩

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From the last 3 weeks between 13 Jun – 1 Jul, these veteran traders @dAn_chang @lynlynnakamori @jaytun with very different trading approaches gave their shot to trade the markets by using DLCs only. Some of their returns are really fantastic!

Jay Tun is an independent full-time trader and founder of Swim Trading. Dan Chang is a prominent trading representative with more than 21 years of experience. Lyn Nakamori is our veteran community member and full-time trader.

Throughout these 3 weeks, they have showcased their trading analysis, setups and DLC know-hows via posts for the purpose of this challenge.

Tune in on 6 July, Wednesday at 12PM as we try to find out how they did it even despite choppy market conditions.

We will also be announcing the grand winner of the NESPRESSO KOPI MACHINE WORTH $500!

Catch the livestream here on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etHFy2zBNvQ

This challenge was organised in partnership with Societe Generale, issuers of the Daily Leverage Certificates (DLC).

#kopimoneychallenge

Disclaimer: The contents of these posts does not form part of any offer or invitation to buy or sell any daily leverage certificates (the “DLCs”), and nothing herein should be considered as financial advice or recommendation. Any past performance is not indicative of future performance. Investments in DLCs carry significant risks, please refer to the DLC issuer website at dlc.socgen.com… for further information and relevant risks. The DLCs are for specified investment products (SIP) qualified investors only. This advertisement has not been reviewed by The Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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I posted in my Telegram group regarding a particular recession in the past that kind of reminds me a little of what we are currently going through.

And some members were asking if I would do a deep dive about it.

There is roughly nothing much to analyze as it is just some data but I thought I would present what I tabulated. I got to thank Sean Cheng from Dimensional for pointing me to the Dimensional article that provided a good summary of the 16 US recessions that happen since 1926.

This post was originally posted here. The writer is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @Kyith.

Here is the summary of the US recessions:

The details of all 16 US Recessions in the past

You can see when they started and end. On average, each recession lasted for 1 year with the longest being 3.6 years (Great depression).

For those in retirement planning, you would also notice that during the recessions, there is seldom deflation. This means that your real spending might not stay stagnant or decline during those periods.

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A month ago, I requested whether you could help me do a retirement income survey, and you happily obliged.

Originally, I said that there will be 5 book winners but I decided to bump it up to 15 so in the next few weeks, I will link up with 15 of you who are the lucky winners of Money Wisdom: Simple Truths For Financial Wellness and Estate Planning Made Easy.

This post was originally posted here. The writer is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @Kyith.

As someone who paid attention to the financial independence, retire early (FIRE) space and a specialist whose day job is to craft & improve the solution in a wealth advisory firm, I wanted to find out the income preferences about you for sometime.

The you in this case, are the Singaporeans, PR and the expats living around the region who are more financially conscious. You would have more financial resources than the average Singaporeas but you are exposed to the importance of planning for your retirement (through Investment Moats any my peers). Therefore, you are also more aware of the different complications concerning planning for your retirement.

A total of 588 of you responded to my survey. While many of you would not win the books, I want to make the result of the survey as valuable of a gift that you have partly given yourself.

Each of us have different financial resources, difference in pace of retirement saving. We also have different perspectives about our desired retirement lifestyles, due to our money stories in the past.

Most of the other surveys are more bias towards try to craft a narrative that you have a retirement shortfall, or to scare you to planning for it early. Perhaps to call them and start planning.

In the questions that you have done, you would realize there is less focus on how you are going to accumulate that but more about what your previous money stories have lead you to the eventual income strategy choices.

In this survey, I hope that you may grow to understand that based on your income preferences, it will have profound impact on how your plan will turn out. In each of the question review, I will try my best to explain how your selection will affect your retirement income strategy.

Majority Can Accept More Volatility in their Investment Portfolio in Exchange for Inflation-Adjusting Income

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Everyone has a superhero in their heart. Our fathers are the one who will always be there to help, guiding you to succeed in difficult times.

While we celebrate this year’s Father’s Day, we are partnering with uSMART to host a special giveaway to everyone!

From 15th June to 24th June, follow these simple steps to win up to S$1,000* worth of free shares:

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Wouldn’t it be great if we can all have some kopi money?

For this challenge, we’re partnering with Societe Generale, issuers of the Daily Leverage Certificates (DLC), and invited 3 prominent community members to trade the DLCs using bite-size capital!

Join challenge & view original post HERE.

@dAn_chang @lynlynnakamori @jaytun will give it a shot to trade the markets using DLCs only!

They will be showcasing their trading analysis, setups and DLC know-hows, so do look out for their posts!

Lastly, from now till 1 July, STAND A CHANCE TO WIN A NESPRESSO KOPI MACHINE WORTH $500! (Lattissima One Coffee Model)

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Daily Leverage Certificates (DLCs) tracking the STI have since commenced trading from 1 June 2022 with 2x, 5x and 7x leverage on both Long and Short directions. With different leverage options and the ability to trade both directions of the market, the DLCs offer investors the flexibility to gain exposure to the STI according to their risk appetite, investment horizon and view of the market.

$STI 2xLongSG250529(CUGW.SI) 

$STI 2xShortSG250529(CXGW.SI) 

$STI 5xLongSG250529(CVEW.SI) 

$STI 5xShortSG250529(CYGW.SI) 

$STI 7xLongSG250529(CWHW.SI) 

$STI 7xShortSG250529(CZGW.SI) 

For more info, please visit https://dlc.socgen.com

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Sometime around this time last year, I wrote an article on Syfe Investment Portfolio highlighting the Core Portfolio which provides investors with a balanced mix of equity, bond, and gold ETFs.

‌If you have bought them, you would fared pretty well above the market average at an annualized return of -8.1% for the past 1-year but up 5.5% for 3 years annualized and 5.6% for 5 years annualized.

‌This post was originally posted here. The writer, Brian Halim is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @3Fs and has over 2.4k followers.

*Source is accurate as of 24th May 2022

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I had a casual discussion with a friend yesterday where we talked about the performance of the various Singapore-listed REITs (or S-REITs for short) and 2 of the REITs we put side-by-side to evaluate are the 2 blue-chip industrial REITs in Ascendas REIT (SGX:A17U) and Mapletree Industrial Trust (SGX:ME8U) – where both of them have a similar property profile (in that they invest in industrial and data centre properties.)

This post was originally posted here. The writer, Lim Jun Yuan is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with a username known as @ljunyuan and has close to 2,000 followers.

So, between the 2 REITs, which is a better one in terms of its performances, and also at the time of writing, which is currently the “cheaper” one? Let us have a look at both REITs’ performance over the last 11 years to find out:

Market Capitalisation (Market Cap)

At the time of writing of this post, Ascendas REIT has market cap of S$11.586bn, while Mapletree Industrial Trust has a market cap of S$6.693bn.

Verdict: Ascendas REIT is clearly the winner here with a market cap that’s close to double of that of Mapletree Industrial Trust.

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