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Temasek Just Launched a Bond at 2.65%. Should You Actually Buy It?🦖 🔍 The Angle Temasek’s credit is not the surprise. The surprise is that a top-tier name can still leave you reaching for CPF SA as the harder benchmark, not the easier one. I spotted the gap between “safe” and “worth tying up money for 10 years.” 💰 What It Means For You If you manage CPF or retirement cash, the real question is not whether Temasek can pay. It is whether 2.65% is enough when CPF SA is sitting at 4% and doing the same safety job with no extra credit risk. That spread is the part your money feels. 📺 YouTube: https://youtu.be/zRRzF0eui00 📩 Substack: https://investingiguana.com/p/temasek-just-launched-a-bond-at-265

Parkway Life's DPU Jumped 14.6%. Does That Finally Clear the Hurdle? 🦖 🔍 The Angle Parkway Life REIT just posted a 14.6% jump in half-year DPU to 8.77 cents. Yet the release said almost nothing about gearing, the number that decides whether this income is truly safe or just temporarily boosted. 💰 What It Means For You If you hold this for CPF or SRS income, the payout looks stronger on the surface. But without confirming whether gearing has crossed the 35% ceiling, you cannot tell if this REIT still has room to absorb rate shocks or is running closer to the edge. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 4, Caution. 📺 YouTube: https://youtu.be/kqQ1B5o3W0E 📩 Substack: https://investingiguana.com/p/parkway-lifes-dpu-jumped-146-does Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

T-Bills Pay 1.59% With No Conditions. Your Bank's "4.10%" Has Five 🦖 🔍 The Angle The cleanest rate in this whole comparison is also the smallest headline, 1.59% on a 6‑month T‑bill, yet it is the only number that pays you without conditions. UOB One, OCBC 360 and DBS Multiplier all flash bigger percentages, but once you strip out card spend, salary gymnastics and product cross‑sell, the realistic interest drops sharply. The tension I wanted to surface is simple, the honest rate on your CPF or cash might be much closer to the T‑bill than the number your bank prints in bold. 💰 What It Means For You If you are parking S$50,000 or S$100,000 while you decide what to do next, a 1.59% T‑bill is now a clean benchmark, cash in, rate out, no behaviour hoops. UOB One’s 1.9% on S$150,000 only shows up

We Checked Every Bank and REIT We Cover Against CPF SA. Most of Them Lost. 🦖 🔍 The Angle Everyone treats CPF SA as the boring background rate, but when I actually stack DBS, OCBC, UOB, the big REITs, and SGX against a 4.7% equity hurdle, almost all of them fall short on today’s prices. The surprise is not that weak names fail, it is that fortress banks and blue chips now look expensive once you benchmark them against what CPF quietly pays you for free. That gap between “safe reputation” and “actual yield versus CPF” is where most retirement portfolios are bleeding without realising it. 💰 What It Means For You If your CPF SA is compounding at 4% and cash in DBS or SingTel is only throwing off 3 to 4% at current prices, you are taking equity risk for less income than the government is alread

StarHub Jumped 8% on a Deal That Hasn't Happened Yet. Here's What That Actually Means 🦖 🔍 The Angle StarHub just jumped almost 8% on a deal that does not exist yet, and that is exactly why I wanted to flag it for you personally. The research house’s math on a StarHub–M1 merger is serious work, they are talking about synergies worth around 9% to 11% of combined earnings, funded with a mix of S$400 million from selling Ensign and about S$621 million of new debt, but the transaction itself is still pure possibility, not a confirmed path. The market is treating a thesis like a fact, and that gap between “good story” and “signed deal” is where your CPF and SRS capital can quietly take on risk you did not intend. 💰 What It Means For You If you are holding telco names for income, this kind of mov

Singapore Has 244,000 Millionaires. Why Does Almost No One Feel Rich? 🦖 🔍 The Angle Singapore now has about 244,000 US dollar millionaires and an average adult wealth of roughly US$527,000, yet almost nobody I talk to actually feels rich. When I pulled the report apart, the real story was how much of that “millionaire” status is trapped inside a home you live in and CPF you cannot touch. The headline sounds like prosperity, the balance sheet feels like pressure. 💰 What It Means For You If most of your net worth sits in a fully lived‑in flat and CPF that is still years from drawdown, your day‑to‑day income risk has very little to do with whether Singapore has 244,000 millionaires or 2 million. The real test is how much of your number today is liquid and paying you, versus locked and only us

Keppel (BN4) 1H2026 Earnings: Yield, Gearing, And ICR All Just Failed 🦖 🔍 I kept looking past the 25% core profit jump, because the uncomfortable part is what happens when the legacy book still sits in the same company. Keppel can grow the engine and still leave income investors with a balance sheet that does not behave like a clean yield vehicle. 💰 For CPF and SRS investors, that is the real tension here, the ordinary dividend works out to just 2.96% at S$11.49, while the consolidated leverage and interest coverage still stay under pressure. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 5, Red Zone. The headline story is improving, but the cash you can actually trust is not yet clean enough for retirement income. 📺 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FElvBR4yMHU 📩 Substack: https://investingiguana.com/p/keppel-bn4-1h

Seatrium's Profit Jumped 158%. Here's What the Zone 5 Call Actually Needed to See 🦖 🔍 The Angle Seatrium just printed a 158% jump in half-year profit, but when you strip out the divestment gains, the real engine only grew 54%. That is still strong, yet the two questions that put this name in Zone 5, interest coverage and cash flow strength, were not answered in today’s release at all. The market is already bidding the price up on the headline, I am much more interested in the numbers we still have not seen. 💰 What It Means For You If your CPF or SRS income plan leans on this stock, a big profit percentage without a single cent of interim dividend should ring louder than the share price move. The yield problem and the missing debt service picture are exactly why this sits in Iggy's Forensic

Digital Core REIT's 7.2% Yield Looks Great. The Balance Sheet Behind It Doesn't.🦖 🔍 The Angle What if a “safe” 7.2% data centre yield is really your balance sheet working overtime, not your tenants paying more rent? Digital Core REIT’s DPU held at 1.80 US cents even as NPI fell 5.7% and net profit dropped 19.8%, helped by unit buybacks and adjustments. That gap between the story on the slide and the story in the numbers is exactly where I start worrying for CPF and SRS money. 💰 What It Means For You If you are drawing income, a 7.2% yield with 39.2% gearing and interest cover around 3.2–3.3x means there is less buffer than the headline suggests. One tenant accounts for roughly 30% of rent and most of your payout arrives in US dollars, so a single renewal decision or FX swing can move your

The Fed Just Confused the Entire Market. Here's What It Actually Means for Singapore 🦖 🔍 The Angle Three Fed officials wanted a rate hike, not a hold. The 30-year Treasury yield just crossed 5.2 percent, a level not seen since 2007. The bond market is pricing a 57 percent chance of a September hike, up sharply from before this week. 💰 What It Means For You Your CPF Special Account rate does not move with Fed noise, it is set by our government on its own schedule. But SORA, which prices your floating mortgage and much REIT debt, tracks global US dollar funding costs over time. If the Fed hikes in September, that is upward pressure on SORA down the line. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 2, Watch.