Over the years, my wife and I have carefully built a stock portfolio designed to support our long-term financial goals especially a comfortable and fulfilling retirement. Each stock we have chosen reflects a deliberate strategy: focusing on quality companies with strong fundamentals, consistent performance, and reliable dividend payouts. Rather than chasing short-term gains, we have prioritized stability, resilience, and income generation.
Our goal has always been to create a portfolio that works for us quietly in the background, generating a steady stream of passive income. This income is not just numbers on a screen. It is the foundation for our future lifestyle, giving us the freedom to enjoy our retirement years without financial stress. Whether it is traveling, spending time with loved ones, or simply enjoying the slower pace of life, we want our investments to make those moments possible.
We review our holdings regularly, reinvest dividends, and stay disciplined through market cycles. It is not about timing the market. It is about time in the market. By staying consistent and aligned with our vision, we are gradually turning our portfolio into a reliable income engine. It is a journey we have taken together, and every stock we own is a step closer to the sweet retirement we have envisioned.
Our Singapore holdings are heavily weighted toward real estate investment trusts, which we have chosen deliberately for their combination of regular payouts and exposure to real, income producing assets. We spread this across a mix of sectors rather than concentrating in one, holding retail focused trusts such as CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Paragon REIT, industrial and logistics trusts such as Frasers Logistics and Commercial Trust and Mapletree Logistics Trust, a healthcare trust in Parkway Life REIT, and a data centre trust in Keppel DC REIT. This spread means that a downturn affecting one property sector, such as retail footfall or industrial demand, does not put our entire income stream at risk at the same time.
Alongside the REITs, we also hold individual blue chip stocks such as ST Engineering and Delfi Limited. These companies were chosen for reasons beyond pure yield, including business resilience, defensive characteristics, and in Delfi’s case, exposure to consumer demand in Southeast Asia that behaves somewhat differently from our property linked holdings.
Beyond Singapore, we also maintain a separate portfolio of United States stocks, shown above, which gives us exposure to companies and sectors that are simply not available on the Singapore Exchange, such as global technology and semiconductor leaders. We treat this as a complementary sleeve to our Singapore income portfolio rather than a replacement for it, since the two behave differently across market cycles and currencies.
My Stock Portfolio
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We do not treat this portfolio as static. As individual holdings report their financial results each quarter, or as broader conditions such as interest rates shift, we revisit our thesis for each position. A holding remains in the portfolio because it continues to earn its place, not simply because it has always been there.
