Cordlife Discount and Baby Bonus

Do the following to get discount on Cordlife subscription and make full use of the baby bonus:

1. Sign up for Thomson Medical First Born Incentives Card @$148. Currently you will enjoy $450 off the cordlife package. Check out the latest pricing and package details here: http://www.thomsonmedical.com/facilities.htm#firstborn
2. Sign up for cordlife. If you have a referral (someone who had signed up before), you get an additional $50 off. Specify that you want to pay via CDA.
3. Sign up for the Baby Bonus Scheme at the hospital's birth register counter.
4. MCYS will send a letter on opening a Children Development Account (CDA) within 3 weeks.
5. Open your child's CDA with Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC Bank) or Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered).
6. Put in $6k into the account. Govt will match dollar for dollar. This money can be used for child care centres, kindergardens, Singapore Dollar fixed or time deposit accounts, and Cordlife payment. The usused balance in your child's CDA will be transferred to his or her Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) in the year your child turns 7 years of age. The funds in the PSEA can be used to pay fees for post-secondary education in Singapore for your child and his or her siblings.
7. Update Cordlife with the CDA info here: http://www.cordlife.com/sg/existingclient/updatecdaaccountinformation.php. Ensure that you receive an email acknowledgment immediately after submission, else re-submit the CDA info again.

UOB SSE50 China ETF

A complicated structure:

Basically, investors only own a "P-note" and not the underlying stocks in the SSE index.

This is not something I would personally want to put my $ into.

More info could be found here:
http://www.uobam.com.sg/uobam/html/china_etf.html

Prospectus:
http://www.uobam.com.sg/uobam/assets/pdfs/prospectus/sse50_etf.pdf

Condos Affected by Flood

1. The Tessarina - Bukit Timah
2. Gentle Reflections - near Novena
3. Opera Estate - freehold terraced-housing development, near bedok
4. King’s 8 -  freehold cluster house with private pool and a private basement car park, near Farrer road

source: Straits Times

Boat Housing

This is planning page. Work in progress

To work out the following considerations to enable living in a boat house.

1) Costs
- Maintenance costs
- Berthing costs
- License

2) Safety

3) Electricity & Water Sources

4) Regulation Compliance

5) Links
http://www.nauticexpo.com/prod/gibson-boats/canal-boat-house-boat-20746-47301.html

NUS RMI Credit Rating Initiative

A new not-for-profit initiative to rate companies, done up by NUS RMI. Good move to increase their reputation.

Check it out here:
http://www.rmi.nus.edu.sg/rmicri/

Need to create a free account.

Capital Asset Pricing Model - CAPM, Firm and Enterprise Values

Details can be found here.

Just a short note on its usage:

Overview of various valuations:

Industries to invest in

Going forward, the following industries should look interesting. The central theme to their selection is basically population growth, giving rise to greater demand for resources.

1) Urban Planning
- water
-sanitation
- clean air
- traffic management

2) Natural Resources
- Agriculture
- Metals
- Oils

3) Healthcare (due to aging population)

Company Events

This site provides email notification for Singapore Company Events. It is better to be informed, then not informed. Check it out.

http://www.listedcompany.com/ir.pl?action=email_subscribe