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Portfolio Update Q4 2018

Update:
Stock
Amount held
Last price
Value
AIMSAMP Cap Reit
121,400
1.32
160,248.00
Ascendas-hTrust
235,000
0.775
182,125.00
Cache Log Trust
13,600
0.69
9,384.00
CapitaR China Tr
35,000
1.35
47,250.00
DBS
1,000
23.33
23,330.00
Ezion
19,500
0.043
838.5
First Reit
40,000
0.98
39,200.00
Frasers Com Tr
43,000
1.36
58,480.00
Frasers L&I Tr
219,700
1.02
224,094.00
Keppel Corp
5,000
5.71
28,550.00
OCBC Bank
5,000
10.97
54,850.00
Sasseur Reit
40,000
0.66
26,400.00
SingTel
42,000
2.89
121,380.00
StarhillGbl Reit
20,000
0.675
13,500.00
(unnamed)
7611
5.3
40,338
Warchest

73,000


TOTAL
S$1,102,967

The final quarter of 2018 has been a wild roller coaster ride. At the point of writing, it appears that we are now in a full throttle downward plunge.


BIGGEST LOSERS:

Singtel (unrealized) -$24,883 (-17%)
Lippo (realized) - $6,135 (-23.6%)
First REIT (unrealized) -$11,662 (23%)


WINNERS:

Frasers Logistic Trust (unrealized) +$12,053 (+5.7%)
OCBC (unrealized) +$1,422 (+2.6%)


Summary:

OCBC and DBS briefly rallied in early Dec before erasing all their gains. I am slightly in the money for OCBC and slightly out for DBS. Both have not corrected enough to warrant adding positions

AIMS AMP, Frasers Log, FCOT, Ascendas Htrust are all trading flat. Not at their all time lows, but nothing to shout about.

Singtel and Keppel managed to retreat into even more negative territory. Blue chips yay.


Cache Log and Starhill are trading near their all time lows. These are 2 REITS that analysts have consistently touted to buy for an appreciable upside.  But you know what i think of analyst reports.


First REIT (the boo boo of 2018) never recovered from that massive 25% sell-down after the credit rating of its sponsor was cut.


CRCT and Sasseur REIT continue to reflect weakness in the Chinese retail market, but with CRCT appearing to be the more resilient one of the two, which is not entirely surprising.


All in all, not a terribly good year for me. Unrealized paper losses at this time is around: -$76k (-7% of AUM).

The dividend updates will be in a separate post.

Towards FI my brethren.







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