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Dividends from Kingboard and China Aviation Oil

I have received dividends from my holdings in Kingboard and China Aviation Oil. It is a small amount of $62.02 and $140.00 respectively.

With the $315.00 that I collected from Capitaland earlier in the month, the total amount of dividends for May 2010 is $517.02.

I have also been using the coin deposit machine by POSB to deposit all my loose change into a POSBKids Account for my child's university education fund. Thus far, I have accumulated slightly over $2500 including money from red packets received during Chinese New Year.

Considering that it is still a long way more, I think I still have time to save up more in the future. But at the current rate I am going, the education fund will probably only hit $50K plus when it needs to be utilised.
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6 comments:

  1. Foo Yong LimMay 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM

    Hi there,

    I am kinda of interested in the China Aviation Oil (CAO).

    May I know how does the purchases of this stock go about? And so far how the dividends rate so far? (quarterly or annually)?

    Look forward to your prompt reply.

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  2. FFMay 26, 2010 at 2:01 PM

    Hi Yong Lim,

    Purchases of the stock must be done in terms of 1000 shares minimum per transaction. That works out to be around $1270++ based on today's price of $1.27.

    You will need a brokerage account and a CDP account to make the purchase. There are a lot of brokerages around so do shop around for the cheapest one. I use UOB Kay Hian. It is not the cheapest.

    SO far, dividends have been paid mostly annually. Some years, no dividends were paid.

    2006 was US$0.014 per share
    2007 was US$0.049 per share
    2008 was US$0.0131 per share

    Do take note of the scandal that CAO has gone through and how investors might tend to shun S-shares because of all the accountability issues.

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  3. la papillionMay 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM

    Hi FF,

    Why are you interested in CAO? Care to share?

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  4. FFMay 27, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    Hi LP,

    My reason for buying into China Aviation Oil:

    1. Temasek is an investor. I trust the brains at Temasek.

    2. It has a monopoly of the procuring jet fuel oil for Pudong Airport.

    3. Growth in China ought to translate to growth in aviation travel. Singapore is planning up to 6 airport terminals. The same should apply for China and would benefit China Aviation Oil.

    Just these 3 main reasons. I bought into it after the scandal by the way.

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  5. la papillionMay 27, 2010 at 9:32 PM

    Hi FF,

    Ok. I wouldn't touch it, but that's just me. I'm not impressed with anything to do with the aviation industry.

    Best of luck!

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  6. FFMay 28, 2010 at 9:27 AM

    Heh. Thanks!

    I usually don't touch aviation too. But this is an indirect exposure I guess.

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