If you are a Singaporean, you may have heard from many local investors that the Singapore Straits Times Index (STI) is dead. If you do not understand why, just take a look at the chart below.
While the S&P 500 has made the 2008 Great Financial Crisis look like a blip as part of a secular bull market, the STI has gone nowhere and has failed to recover the high made before the crisis. The saving grace for the STI is that its dividend yield is relatively high. You can refer to the link below for STI's dividend yield over the years.
But even after factoring in dividends, the STI's compound average growth rate (CAGR) over the years is still very low.
All Is Not Lost
What is a local investor to do if he wants to invest in local stocks? You can still earn a double-digit CAGR if you pick the right stocks and use a good strategy to manage risk. We have worked with Ou Da Wei (iFAST senior investment advisor) to come up with a strategy to achieve that. This strategy is a combination of trend-following applied to selected stocks that pay good dividends and a stock rotation strategy applied to selected local REITs. For lack of a better name, let's call this strategy SGP Stocks. The performance is shown below.
As this is a 100% stock-focused strategy, the risk-adjusted return is not as attractive as our AQ Multi-Strategy model which is diversified across multiple asset classes. The yearly returns are also more wide-ranging. But the good thing about it, is you are not exposed to currency risk as the stocks are all in SGD. And if you love dividends, you'll love this portfolio as all the stocks pay decent dividends.
NOTE: Performance shown is model performance and does not include wrap fees charged by iFAST Global Markets.
Find out more about this SGP Stocks strategy through a coffee session!
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You can now build such a portfolio through iFAST Global Markets without lifting a finger. In this collaboration, we are combining AllQuant’s expertise in hedge fund strategies and iFAST’s advisory capabilities and bringing it to your doorstep.
Ready to start your investment journey? Chat with us over a cup of coffee through a session facilitated by iFAST Senior Investment Adviser, Ou Da Wei, to find out more.
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