Originated from Will The Election Result Effect
Stock Market? I decided to make the title more proper now as only
stock will be talk here.
From my many years of personal observation, as long as the exchange
rate of US currency remained weak or depreciated, the international
fund investors will likely to stay in Asia countries. This is
because Asia had picked up from the economic crisis previously
which is true.
Hence, retailer investors are advised to observe the exchange rate
of US currency as a guide. I am not worried as long as US$ exchange
to Sin$ kept below $2. Oil price is a worldwide event, hence the
effect is no as great as before. My only worry is some unusual
events popped out unexpectedly such as bird flu etc. That will act
of God.
Few criteria for you to follows;-
1) Search for company that link their CEO wage packages that are
linked to their companys performance. Hence CEO must produce good
result to give himself good wage packages.
2) Go for companies with good management only.
3) Go for companies that pay good divided every year, in case of
any crisis, you still have dividends (in percentage form) as
interest higher than bank deposite. All investments will have
risks, hence ensure that during crisis, you still have growth in
your investor.
4) Looking at dividends in currency form can be misleading as some
shares are of high value but small dividends.
5) It is important that the percentage of the dividend payout from
the revenue must be high, else the management shall only put the
cash back to reserve for future expansion. This portion must no be
used for paying fee to the management.
6) Look for companies that are less likely to be exposed to factors
that are uncontrollable. I wouldnt name any here as it would
offence others, you can use the above factors as a guide for your
selection.
7) It will be more encouraging, if the management had declared a
long concrete plan for issuing dividends say 10 years instead of
year to year basis. However, one must remember to look at para 5 as
a guide.
For those speculative investors, I still wish you
all good luck.
For me, I will advise the real serious investor to "Kwa Lois Kwa
Tiow Tiow, Long Zhong Bo Cha Seow" 
I shall start naming those shares that had no
dividends and low dividends issued to shareholders over a long
period of time. Please contribute if you happened to know of such
shares listed in SGX to alert fellow singaporean investors.