Thursday, October 2, 2014

Interview With David Of "David Financial Freedom" Blog

After four months plus, since I first started the "Interview With The Fellow Investors" blog series on 25th May 2014, I've reached the 20th interviewee today! "clap clap clap" (to myself). It is a great milestone for me and I hope you folks do enjoy the interview series as much as I am writing it.
 
His name is David and a late comer to the stock investment scene, just like me. As the saying goes, it is better late than never right? Anyway, that's not the point. ;-) He owned the David Financial Freedom blog and constantly write about his investment portfolio (mixture of Singapore and US stocks).
 
Without further ado, check out David's investing journey below : 

Q1 : Can you give us a brief introduction about yourself?
A1 : A late starter to the investing world. An average guy with full-time employment. Only realised and started to join the bandwagon of value investing, hopefully to instil and influence this belief to those around me.

Q2 : Are you a full-time or part-time investor at the moment?
A2 : Part-time investor.

Q3 : When (at what age) did you start investing in shares and who has influenced you the most?
A3 : Bought my 1st share in 1993 during Singtel listing in SGX. It was the government's programme to make Singapore a share-owning society. You can read it in my blog. My real investing started last year at 2013 with IPO. Since then, I do not subscribe to IPO.

Q4 : Do you view yourself as long-term (holding shares in years), short-term investor (holding shares in days/months) or mixture?
A4 : Long-term investor. Had not sell any of my holding if the fundamental had not change for the company.

Q5 : What is your basis of selecting the shares to invest(e.g. basing on fundamental analysis, technical analysis or other methods/sources [share a little bit more details if it is the latter])?
A5 : Mostly fundamental analysis, value investing method. But with small percentage of arbitrage, fallen angel play - risk is higher as it can be a value trap whereby the stock never recover or a huge opportunity to become your 10-bagger!

Q6 : What is your targeted and achieved annual rate of returns (%) so far?  
A6 : My targeted rate of returns : 7 %. My achieved rate of returns : “Negative” todate excluding dividends collected. But if I include my singtel shares bought in 1993, it it positive.

Q7 : What is your most recommended online investing resource (site or blog) to share with our readers?
A7 : If only 1 site, SGX. If more are allow, then, PEOMs, KEtrade, Investmentmoats, Sgreit, Gurufocus, Marketwatch and many other financial websites & blogs.

Q8 : Besides shares, what other investment are you involved in (e.g. Real Estates, Bonds or REITs etc)?
A8 : REITs, Unit Trust. Too poor to invest in real estates.

Q9 : What is your Portfolio Distribution like”?
A9 : 10 Singapore listed & 9 US listed.

Q10 : If the readers what to get in touch with you, how to get hold of you? (Sharing of your website/blog/social media profile etc..)
A10 : Please visit David Financial Freedom. 
By the way, if you are a retail investor and would like to be featured in my "Interview With The Fellow Investors" blog series, please feel free to email me at investopenly@gmail.com

Also, for the complete list of my interviewees and their posts, check it out here.

Cheers!

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