Why I choose to invest in the US/ HK market
Why I choose to invest in the US/ HK market My investment journey began when I was investing in Singapore REITS and shares when I was in the Army. I was obsessed with the SG market and knew it was a good market if one is primarily in search of dividends because dividends are not taxed for Singaporeans and it felt good if I had extra pocket money (on top of capital gains) going into my bank account every few months. When I began work after attending University, I read up avidly on investment methodologies by many Singaporean financial bloggers and they advocated Dollar Cost Averaging into STI ETF. Without doing much due diligence, I signed up for the POSB Invest-Saver to do regular deductions of my salary into STI ETF. This was a substantial amount of my salary every month, hence I did not have much cash to look elsewhere to other markets. Only when my annual bonus came in when I could look to invest it. Long story short, I realized that the US/ HK market was better for me because 1. T