Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The fastest year I have ever had

In May - Finally hit a milestone which was a relief - Manage to sell the company. Finish the 1st Share Transfer/Director Appt.& subsequent Bank A/C opening.

Next -
Company - Send Form C to Acct, Bank in A/C , collect $ from Carb/Skill/ Ikeda , source for carpet, Printer

Buy maid ticket (now her mother doesn't want her to work 1 more year)

Advertise for the house, sell the house

AS Enterprise (Do up the Share Transfer forms from the PB template, got Ishida to sign and Registered Post to Japan)

Staring June I Have to concentrate on my own career & and finally have some time ofr my Investment which has been horrible of late.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

FY2011 Investment May

I had restructered my portfolio abit to be more link to the upsurge of commoditity prices. However I let go of JJG, which was lucky as it was just before the sell-off. My investment temperement right now is not really in the right frame of mind now as I seem to be buying on the high side.

My portfolio changes -
1) I sold off most of my Talison in January around 6+ and bought back at 5+ and 4+ as the valuations was becoming streteched.
2) I also sold of Western Uranium (due to the Japanese Disaster).
3) I sold Lithium One at 1.66 in January and bought back at 1.3 and resold it at 1.79. I then bought back at 1.7, albeit a small quantity
4) I bought more of People's Food, Cerebos and added Stamford Land.
5) I also sold off Singholdings at 36 cents but bought back at 32 cents, also selling Hock Lian Seng as it had been rather long since they have new orders. Both counters I sold off after our Singapore Government introduced new stricter property rules. Eg. you can only loan 60% if you still have a housing loan.
6) I sold of Spindex as the company could not cope with the drop in USD exchange rate and it was likely to worsen. As of now USD/SGD has further dropped to 1.23.
7) I also sold of Super to take profit and valuations was getting expensive and trimmed down Boustead as the contracts was not coming in, and due to the write off at Libya.

Current May Portfolio
1 People Food
2 Talisum Lithium
3 Stamford Land
4 Visa
5 Cerebos Pacific
6 Boustead
7 APB
8 Lithium One
9 Sing Holdings
10 Hour Glass
11 SMRT
12 MTQ
13 Soup Res
14 Techcomp
15 Lee KT
16 TNR Gold
17 Celestial

YTD down by 8%. Invested 71% 29% cash.
There are a few things which I am still monitoring to put cash into good use as now cash is really rubbish. Commodiites will be interesting, however with the raising of margin limits to flush out speculators, there might be further drops. Lithium / Natural Gas / Industrial Conglomerate plays are looking promising.

And yes, for the very first time, my name appeared on the Annual Report of a listed company. This may or may not be a good thing, let's see how things play out :)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

FY2011 Q1 Personal

Have been a hectic quarter in 2011.

At first I thought we had a agreement to sell the company to another third party. However the other party kept on dragging its feet.

Finally in the CNY in Feb, I reduce the price by 13% to reflect inventory obsoletion in the Japanese blanks and less some consumption of inventory .

In Jan -busy with preaparing CNY - food for CNY eve and first day ( have to go to Chinatown to buy the foodstuff , market etc) , decorations (Chinatown and Garden) ,
- busy with trying to close the deal

In February - CNY

In March - Reservist 1st week and inventory counting, 2nd week cover InXX while employee went for Penang customer visit, 3rd week - own company 3 years revenue projection alignment meeting

In April - QBR,
RT (manage to pass after 4 weeks),
got new maid for my Mum,
clean up the old house to sell,
AS Enterprise AR filing ( no need to file income tax - FORM C waiver done already ), after consulting ACRA as we have no filed the AR for 4-5 years, if we file now, every year there will be a penalty. If we have the intention to close the company, we can strike off.
InXX - Calculate 10 months Financial