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5 great reasons for joining www.shareowl.com |
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Written by Sophie Seow
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008
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How to pick stocks ...
 A recognition for Shareowl.com
1. Depth of experience: Sebastian Chong, founder and managing director, is a Fellow Certified Public Accountant (Singapore and Australia) and a former associate professor with the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School.
After 10 years as an auditor with a Big Four accounting firm, he spent the next 23 years in academia before retiring in 2003. All that time, Sebastian Chong was investing actively in equities.
In fact, he has been doing so since the 1970s. He is the key writer of analysis and commentary articles on stocks on www.shareowl.com and is also a very active participant in its forum section.
2. Popular website: For the quarter January - March 2008, www.shareowl.com ranked No. 10 based on market share of visits among all Singapore websites in the Hitwise Business and Finance - Business Information industry. Building and running this website has been his passion since his retirement from academia.
 Sebastian Chong, 60, an experienced hand at the stock game.
3. Discover bargains for the upturn: The Straits Times Index has been declining in most months since the October 2007 record high of 3,901 points. At the close of trading on July 29, 2008, it stood at 2886, down 26%. The reality is that many individual stock prices are now less than half or even one-quarter of their 2007 peaks. But not all beaten down stock prices mean great value.
Which ones are worth considering? What strategy should you adopt and how much cash should you hold in your portfolio?
4. Community of the ‘right’ people: Participate in an active forum that is made up of enthusiastic and serious investors who are knowledgeable, well informed and willing to share. Sebastian Chong dives right in with forumers and takes part in discussions just about every day.
5. Value for money: To subscribe to www.shareowl.com, you pay $128 for 12 months or S$198 for 24 months. Well over 700 “owls” can’t be wrong in signing up as paid members. Check out the website www.shareowl.com now. |
