Singapore IPOs: Why I No Longer Cover Every Listing
Some readers may have noticed that I have not been writing about every Singapore IPO since last year. The simple reason is that life has become busier. Between my day job, an increasingly packed travel schedule, family commitments and desire to play more golf, I have become much more selective about how I spend my time. Writing detailed IPO reviews takes time — reading prospectuses, analysing financials, comparing valuations and understanding the competitive landscape. While I still enjoy investing and writing, I no longer feel the need to cover every IPO that comes to market. Instead, going forward, I will probably focus only on IPOs where I am seriously considering investing my own money or where there is something particularly interesting that is worth discussing. I suspect this will make the blog more useful as well. Rather than writing about every deal, I can spend more time sharing my thoughts on the handful that I believe deserve attention. That bring...
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I have posted the following comment elsewhere on this blog, but I thought I would post it here under the "IPO famine" post.
It seems a good place to repeat the comment given below. During this IPO famine, perhaps one could spare a few moments for bonds.
Bond IPOs are quite a new thing, the closest one being the DBS Preference shares IPO.
I think SGX may be getting interested in infrastructure bonds, and for those who don't mind malaysian corporate bonds, there are also some in the pipeline.
May I therefore repost the comment made elsewhere in this blog, without anyone thinking this is spamming.
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I wonder if readers have any interest in bonds.
Bonds is not something typically of interest to investors.
However, given the supposedly large foreign interest in asian bonds, it may do for everyone to pick up a couple of bonds. This for obvious reasons.
It is unlikely such couple of bonds would make anyone rich, but will provide a steady flow of loose change that may be useful for small but essential purposes.
No-one should have any doubts of the effects of all this money printing (western central banks). And if anyone has doubts, see :
http://malaysiafinance.blogspot.com/2012/12/equities-new-bull-run-started.html
Perhaps a handful of asian bonds will be a good idea for the portfolio. Again, the reasons are so obvious they need not be stated.
Hopefully, everyone would consider it and mention it to their brokers. There should not be insurmountable difficulties in doing IPOs for bonds, in the same way IPOs are done for shares.