There was a significant drop in November’s effective interest rate as compared to October’s effective interest rate for Singapore Savings Bonds. If you held the bond for ten years, October’s effective interest rate was 2.13% while November’s effective interest rate is 2.07%.
Recently, I have bought more of Singapore Savings Bonds. As such, Singapore Savings Bonds currently makes up 14% of my stock portfolio. Different people will have different reasons for buying Singapore Savings Bonds. As the current stock market is expensive and most REITs are yielding 6% or less, I find it non attractive to buy into the stock market right now. As such, I have treated the Singapore Savings Bonds as a savings account and also sort of an emergency fund if in event I do get retrenched.
Here is my previous post of Singapore Savings Bonds where I compare it with our savings account or fixed deposits.
Singapore Savings Bond versus Savings Account versus Fixed Deposits