
台灣每年4-6月是除權除息的黃金季。以前都偏好短期進出股股市很少關心股利分配的情況。去年年底才發現原來有些股票每次配股配息可以高達5-10% (我是以自己購買股價當標準)如果能追蹤最後過戶日(除權除息日)的行事曆並且在股票相對低點買進很有機會在1-3個月內獲得豐碩的報酬。
許多長期投資為目的者是長期握有高配息資優股,投資方式形同定存,而每年以這樣的高比例取得股票股利。以現在定存利率幾乎不到1%的現實環境下長期持有高配息股並享有機會賺取股票價差才是安全又有效率的投資。

Today is 228 an important memorial day of Taiwan. Also this is the last day of our quarter. I ended the quarter closing one day earlier due to the 228 public holiday in Taiwan. As no one in business today in Taiwan, I left office at lunch time. Too many holidays that makes it so hectic in the last month of this quarter. What an exhausting month!! Last Saturday night I even played mahjong for the first time of my life!! It is really time to take a break and get ready to restart.
Seize the chance of half day leave from office; I started to study the UT in Singapore. I was trying to do some study though never get myself a good timing to do so. Today I did a lot of homework. Starting from DollarDex and Fundsupermart, I found that there are more than these 2 online fund distributors actually there are several global ones available in Singapore. I even found a local fund discussion forum. People share good information and various experience here. It is very helpful. Unlike in Taiwan that we are used to buy funds via internet banking, people have different ways of investing here. These fund distributors offer attractive sales charge rate and online transaction platform, credit card & CPF payment methods and detailed market and fund performance report, which the banks such as DBS and OCBC, HSBC can hardly compete with. I also found that the fund investment and discussion seem to be very limited to those people working in securities firms; it does not seem to be a popular investment channel for the public here yet. But after checking the sales rate, it is no doubt that I should take the platform thing more seriously. For the online transaction, it only costs 1% to 2.5% for sales charge. On the other way, the banks and insurance companies may charge their customer 3.5% to 5%. Besides, the online fund transaction is not even available in local banks. Considering the initial cost of investment, the difference of 2.5% of the total investment can be a great amount of money. In addition, a rather real-time performance report and varieties of funds to choose and switch are important keys to make an investment successful.
This is a small gain today. Still there are so much to explore. I would find the weekend and keep up with the rest of study.