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Sunday 11 March 2018

The 5 Keys of Financial Management for Investors

Financial Management is one of the most important keys to success and achieve financial freedom for everyone. Here, i would like to share the 5 most important keys for financial management especially for Investors.

The 5 Keys of Financial Management for Investors



1) Divide your monthly income into different accounts


The most easilier ways is to open a few separate accounts. Basically, opening an account is free of charge for all banks. Here are the list of account that should be opened to protect your cash and please remember that "You should control the Money, Not the Money to control you."

i) Saving Account - An account that without a ATM debit card. You should not withdraw any money after you have deposited inside this account.

ii) Investment Account - An account that prepare for investment such as Stocks, Real Estate, Bonds, etc.. This is the account that you should keep saving until you find the right time to invest in order to build your assets.

iii) Expenses Account - An account that will used for monthly expenses, such as grocery shopping, phone bills, utilities bills, etc.. This is the account you should know the exact amount that are going to spend each month.

iv) Entertainment Account - An account to relax and credit yourself. Personally, i wouldn't suggest that you should put more money into this account unless your income is super high. Do not spend more than 15% of your income into this account at the early ages. As we should be more aggressive to build our investment portfolios in order to enjoy in the older ages.

v) Tax Account - An account that should save up for your yearly taxes. People always borrow money at the end of year to pay off all their taxes which will end up increasing their debts.

I would suggest everyone to install some of the apps such as "Spendee" on your smartphone. It is one of the Virtual Budgeting apps that could help you to categorised, improved and track your expenses and saving. If you are a person that spend a lot, i would recommend you to set a budget to yourself for spending each day and review it every night.



2) Don't use credit card to borrow money (Not even stocks)


The 5 Keys of Financial Management for InvestorsDo not use your future money to invest into any stocks unless you feel that you are too smart and good like "Warren Buffett". Credit card is the type of things that allow everyone to use their future money for now. If investors spend their future money into the stocks or other investment tools, they will only end up paying off all the debts for the remaining years.




3) Liabilities


The 5 Keys of Financial Management for InvestorsDo not buy things that will depreciate in the future. Such as Cars (unless you are the Uber/Grab driver, which they are using cars to earn money), Gaming Computers (unless you are the professional gamers that you need it to win the competitions with prizes), etc..

Investors should not increase their liabilities and should only focus on increasing their value of assets. Smart investors will save up the liability money for a great shot on any types of investment such as properties with healthy rental yield. Normally, i will always tell myself that, i will try to save up as much as possible for all the assets. Although i feel like i am half broke with many healthy debts, i will imagine that all these healthy debts will soon become my passive income in the later years.


4) Inflation



The 5 Keys of Financial Management for InvestorsInflation is one of the most common things on earth and your hard saving money will soon be depreciated in the banks. A 3~4% per year inflation will increase all values and prices. Hence, investors should seek for investment vehicles that could be able to help to generate at least 4% per year to win over the inflation. If investors are paying mutual funds, please check that the annual return AFTER DEDUCTED ALL COMMISSIONS are still be able to provide 4% return (At least). If investors are investing in stocks, then check your yearly stocks performance.


5) Return of investment 


The 5 Keys of Financial Management for InvestorsThe return of investment is the most important keys for all investors. During the bull market, investors stocks portfolio should be more than / win over the Index Return. Or else, investors should just invest into the index fund instead of stocks. For instance, the S&P 500 from 2017 to 2018 is around 20% return and investors stock portfolio must be more than 20%.

Many investors make their fortunes through the properties investment. The average property price raised return for around 4~5% each year, which win over the inflation and a steady cash flow from the rental yield. Investors are based on the following 2 important methods to make fortunes in property investments.

i) Leverage over time
ii) Rent over Mortgage.

In order to be financially freedom, investors should build and invest more on their assets and most importantly, a passive income is always the Ultimate Goals for us.



Saturday 3 March 2018

HSBC Bank Detailed Analysis (2018)

The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) is one of the most well known and largest asia banks that we could find worldwide. In Hong Kong, it is one of the most important stocks that could directly influence the Hang Seng Index performance. It was founded since 1865 and it could be considered as one of the oldest bank on earth. A few years ago, HSBC's headquarter has moved to London, United Kingdom.

HSBC Bank Detailed Analysis
HSBC Bank 

Recently, HSBC has announced their final year report of 2017 and i will highligh a few important tips for investors based on their annual report since HSBC has announced on their huge positive profit in 2017, is that true? Let's see

1) Basic Earning Per Share

Although the annual report showed that HSBC has increased on the basic earning per share, it is still not the best results compared to the past few years. In 2015 the Basic Earning Per Share for HSBC is 5.028 but in 2016 fall down to 0.510 (It has fallen more than 90% within a year).

HSBC Bank Financial Annual Report
HSBC Financial Annual Report 2017


And now, they've reported that it has increased to 3.789. To be honest, it is still not a good result because it has not yet fully recovered from the losses they have made in the past few years. It takes time for them to be as strong as before. Check out the reaction of the investors globally on their stock market performance.

HSBC Declined from 2013 to 2016
HSBC declined since 2013 till 2016

HSBC has been declining since 2013 till mid of 2016 (More than 50%) due to their serious financial losses. And now, HSBC is slowly picking up from the losses they have made.

2) Ping An Insurance China

Ping An of China is one of the largest Insurance companies in China and it used to be one of the greatest assets for HSBC own investment portfolio. In 2006-2007, HSBC has acquired 19.99% of Ping An Insurance and it used to provide around 17% positive return annually for HSBC. However, in 2012, HSBC decided to sell off all their 19.99% shares of Ping An Insurance to cover up the legal case in United States. This could be one of the worst decisions because Ping An Insurance is the only asset of HSBC that could provide huge positive return each year.

HSBC acquired Ping An Insurance is to enter into the China Market but eventually failed. In 2018, HSBC might have another chance of re-entering into china market due to Ping An China has started to acquired HSBC shares of around 6.17% (around $188 Billion). Hence, HSBC has announced that their main focus of 2018 is "HSBC QianHai Securities", for re-tackling into China Market.

3) Fundamental Analysis

Based on the latest annual report released, the fair price for HSBC is $80.3 and it cannot drop any lower than $75.6.

4) Technically Analysis


HSBC Technically Analysis
HSBC Technically Analysis

Unfortunately, HSBC has dropped through a support line which does not look too good in the market especially a huge company that just released the annual report. Anyway, there is one more important support at around $75.6 and it should not drop through it, or else $69.9 will be coming.

To be advised:
1) HSBC is not a good company for long term investment.
2) The overall annual report of HSBC is still not as strong as before.
3) HSBC Support: $75.65 and Resistance: $86 for short term investment.




Thursday 15 February 2018

VIX Index Indicator (Fear Index)

VIX Index is one of the popular index that measure the global stock market's expectation of volatility implied by the S&P 500 and it is also known as "Fear Index". Investors should constantly check the VIX Index as it shows the fear of public investors on the global stock markets.

So, How do we know whether the public investors are panic and fear on the global stock markets? Let's backtesting the past few economic crisis results,

In 2008 (The worst economic disaster since Great Depression of 1929)

VIX Index in 2008
VIX Index in 2008

The economical crisis was started around the end of 2007 till 2009. The VIX index above showed how panic the public investors are and compared it with the stock market in 2008. The VIX index has almost reached 100% in such a short period.

S&P 500 in 2008
S&P 500 in 2008

Usually, when the S&P 500 has fall below the important support lines then we would see a high pitch of VIX index. In other words, global investors are selling off their stocks and start to fear about the future. Or else, the movement of VIX index would be at around 20%.

In 2015 (Latest correction of global stock market)

As we mentioned earlier, if the stock markets went too high without any correction then be prepared for it as it will eventually comes. Please do not mistaken the difference between technical correction and economic crisis.

S&P 500 in 2015
S&P 500 in 2015

Since after the economic crisis in 2008, the S&P 500 went uptrend for around 220% without any proper deep correction. In August of 2015, the S&P 500 index has finally make a correction for more than 15% in just a period of 6 months.

VIX Index 2015
VIX Index in 2015

Before the stock market collapse, VIX index will always went higher than before because of majority of the investors are fear and uncomfortable with the current markets price. Basically, VIX index (Fear Index) will always be unstable when most of the investors are greed and the global stock index price went up until uncontrollable.

To be advised:
1) Always check the VIX index to see how fear is the global investors at this current stock markets.
2) VIX went higher than normal means that the stock markets are going to have a correction or collapse.

Hope everyone could understand the VIX index. Please drop any comments. Thanks.



Saturday 10 February 2018

Global Stock Market is Falling or Correction?

These days everyone is concerned about the future movement of the Global Stock Market. Recently, the global markets were influenced by the US NASX and S&P 500 markets. Many people were arguing whether is it a new crash (after 10 years) or just a correction.

To be honest, all fundamental analysis are pointless at this current global markets condition, investors should focus more on the technical analysis to determine where to take profit or stop loss. The Index PE ratio has actually dropped back to last year level. However, we believe that it is only a technical correction as the S&P 500 were on the uptrend without any correction since early of 2016 for around 60%.

S&P 500 Global Stock Market Correction
Around 60% uptrends since early of 2016 

Investors should focus more on the US Stock Market (S&P 500) as the global market falling due to them. Most importantly, this is not yet a global economic crisis because there are no economic crashes at this moment (Unsimilar to the past few global crisis). All the annual company financial reports released lately reflects that the economic are still strong and solid.

However, we would still need to prepare for any possibilities. According to the technically analysis, there are a few supports that need to be considered. If the US index fall below the support, we will have to start preparing for the second stock portfolio adjustment.

S&P 500 Support line for Global Stock Market
S&P 500 First Support @ 2540.00

The first support would be at 2540.00 and the second is at around 2467.73. If it is really fall below the second support, we believed that the bear market might just gonna start. Hence, from now onwards, the global stock markets are getting more harder to invest for normal investors.

To be advised,
1) Please sell off without hesitate for those short term stocks that did not perform too well.
2) For medium or long term investors should wait for a better signal.
3) US government still planning to increase the interest rate on the upcoming FOMC meeting. hence, the global stock markets have not really come to the end yet.
4) If it is just a correction of the global stock market, we should start looking for any undervalued stocks to increase your stock management portfolio.

Please feel free to drop any comments. Thanks.