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Iggy's Journal: Maybank Just Put a $13 Target on Keppel, Betting the Old Conglomerate Story Is Over

2 September 2026, AM

Analyst Rating

Maybank Research has initiated coverage on Keppel Ltd (BN4) at Buy with a S$13.00 target price. The case rests on Keppel's shift away from a traditional conglomerate model toward asset management and infrastructure operations, spanning power generation, data centres, cooling, and subsea connectivity. Maybank's thesis is that this produces more recurring, capital-light earnings than the old business mix, supported by ongoing asset recycling that frees up capital for growth.

The numbers behind the call: FY25 to FY28 earnings growth of 10% to S$1.37 billion, asset management fees rising 17%, recurring income growing at a 12% CAGR, and core ROE improving from 19% to 23%. Maybank's sum of the parts splits value 52% operating businesses, 40% asset management, the remainder non-core. Forecast dividends are 42, 45, and 49 cents for FY26E, FY27E, and FY28E. Maybank flags slower asset recycling, weaker power spreads, softer digital demand, and non renewal of concessions as the key risks. Worth repeating, these are broker forecasts, not Keppel's own guidance.

My Personal Take

The dividend forecast is the number that actually catches my eye here, not the target price. My own numbers currently have Keppel sitting in my most cautious tier purely on distribution, the trailing payout still falls well short of what I look for. Maybank's 42 cent forecast for next year would be a real step up from that. If it lands, it changes the picture. If it doesn't, the capital light story still has to prove itself in the dividend, not just in the earnings growth line.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: UOB Kay Hian Says DBS Is Too Expensive. My Screen Says the Real Problem Is the Yield

2 September 2026, AM

New Video

New video is up. UOB Kay Hian and a blended fair value model looked at the same DBS share price this week and landed in different places. UOB Kay Hian calls the 2.97 times 2027 price to book stretched and trimmed its stance. The blended model puts fair value at S$85 against a S$76.85 price, still room to run on that read. Both are defensible on their own terms. Neither one answers the question a retirement portfolio actually needs answered.

My Personal Take

The number I keep coming back to is the yield, not the multiple. A fresh buyer at S$76.85 locks in 4.18%, short of my 4.7% hurdle. Someone who bought DBS years ago at S$30 is sitting on the same dividend and a yield closer to 10.6% on their original capital. Same stock, same payout, two completely different income realities depending on when you got in. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 4, Caution. November earnings, and whatever dividend comes with them, is where this arithmetic moves next.

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Iggy's Journal: DBS Just Raised Its STI Target by 350 Points. Here's the One Word That Actually Matters: Earnings-Driven.

2 September 2026, AM

Podcast Release:

DBS Group Research raised its STI year-end target from 5,500 to 5,850. That is 350 points, in under two months. The new target is described as 1.5 standard deviations above the historical average, up from 0.5 before.

Four reasons stated: stronger-than-expected GDP growth, attractive dividend yield on Singapore stocks generally, market safe-haven status during geopolitical instability, and ongoing MAS measures to support the local stock market. The house qualifier is that further upside from here should be earnings-driven, not further multiple expansion.

Monday's frame still sits underneath this: prices running up faster than dividends, so yield shrinks even if the business did not change. Income hurdle in that frame is 4.7 percent, benchmarked against CPF Special Account currently at 4 percent plus a buffer for equity risk.

My Personal Take:

A bigger target does not help you if the yield keeps shrinking underneath it. The same 5,850 is two different outcomes for an income investor. If we get there by multiple expansion, SGX yields squeeze further against the 4.7 percent hurdle. If we get there earnings-driven, the yield picture can hold or improve.

Watch FY2027 earnings estimate revisions, not the index level. The one word that actually matters is the one they already printed: earnings-driven.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: US Treasury Yields Just Hit 4.8% – What It Means for Your SGX Portfolio

2 September 2026, AM

Overnight Read:

Wall Street had a rough session: Dow -0.79% (52,766.88), S&P 500 -0.71% (7,631.47), Nasdaq -1.03% (26,099.77). Tech hardware hit hardest – Micron -2.6%, AMD -2.4%, Dell -6.8%. Drivers: renewed Gulf military strikes pushed crude sharply higher, feeding into bond yields. 10-year Treasury climbed to 4.797%. Fed Chair Warsh flagged persistent inflation, signaling policy may stay restrictive or tighten further. VIX +9.52% to 16.34. Brent settled +4.6% at $94.65/barrel (per Business Times; other feeds range $91.50–$95.22 – treat as directional).

Locally, STI dropped 0.78% to 5,710, intraday low 5,697.81, on broad blue-chip weakness (SGX, GuocoLand -0.45% to S$2.20). MAS began consultation on Payment Services Act amendments for single-currency stablecoins; Enterprise Singapore's enhanced 70% SME loan risk-share took effect today.

My Personal Take:

The 10-year Treasury at 4.8% is the key number today, more than daily index moves. Rising yields tend to weigh on S-REITs, as valuations are benchmarked against risk-free rates – a higher rate makes REIT yields less attractive, all else equal. Banks generally benefit from higher rates via net interest margins, but that's a tailwind, not a guarantee. If you hold a REIT-heavy CPF/SRS income portfolio, this macro backdrop matters more than any single STI session, which today looks like broad risk-off following Wall Street.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: Every Singapore Child Now Gets $70,000 by 17. Here's the CPF Math Parents and Grandparents Should Actually Run.

2 September 2026, PM

Video Release:

New piece up, and I'm covering this because it's a new grant just announced, worth dissecting properly rather than just reporting the headline. Every Singapore child now receives close to S$70,000 in government support by age 17, but only S$10,000 of that is cash you can actually allocate freely. The rest sits locked in CDA, PSEA, or Child Credits for approved expenses. That constraint changes the actual question worth asking, and it applies to anyone sitting on spare cash right now, not just new parents.

My Personal Take:

Here's the CPF math I think gets skipped. If you haven't reached the Enhanced Retirement Sum, confirmed at S$440,800 for 2026, topping up a family member's Retirement Account earns 4.0% guaranteed, compounding, with genuinely no market risk. Any dividend stock you'd consider instead of that top-up has to clear my 4.7% yield hurdle on its own merits, and pass the balance sheet tests behind it, not just look attractive next to a fixed deposit. Take ComfortDelGro as one real example on my coverage list, yield clears the hurdle comfortably at 6.30%, but it's sitting at Zone 4, Caution, because gearing at 37.9% breaches my 35% ceiling. Strong yield alone doesn't automatically clear my framework, and a guaranteed CPF top-up doesn't carry that same balance sheet risk at all.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: ComfortDelGro Just Won a Metro Contract in Denmark. Here's Why My Ledger Was Already Watching for This

2 September 2026, AM

Podcast Release:

New episode is up this morning. ComfortDelGro just won the Copenhagen Metro operating contract, a 12-year deal worth DKK 17 billion. Good headline on its own, but my Ledger already had this name flagged before the announcement broke, gearing at 37.9%, breaching my 35% ceiling by 2.9 points, logged well before today's news. Tender wins like this one tend to front-load capex and debt ahead of the contracted revenue actually arriving, so the press release can look great while the balance sheet quietly tells a tighter story underneath it.

My Personal Take:

If your dividend income sits in CPF or SRS, I want to be clear that a single gearing breach on an otherwise strong operator is a watch signal, not a panic button. Yield here clears my hurdle comfortably at 6.30%, and interest coverage is fine at 6.6x, this is a fortress-yield, fortress-coverage business with one specific leverage problem, not a business falling apart. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 4, Caution. The number that actually moves the needle next isn't today's contract announcement, it's whether new debt shows up at the next results tied to funding this win. I'll be watching for that specifically before I'd consider moving this call in either direction.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: 4 SGX Stocks Are Paying Bigger Dividends This September. Here's Which Ones You Can Trust.

31 August 2026, PM

Video Release:

New piece up. Four dividend increases hitting SGX this September, and I traced every single one back to its source before trusting the headline number. Three of them are not what they look like. APAC Realty's bigger payout came from drawing on reserves, not from operating cash flow. Boustead leaned on a one-off asset sale to fund its increase. Only one of the four actually grew into paying more, the rest borrowed the appearance of growth from somewhere else on the balance sheet.

My Personal Take:

A bigger cheque does not prove a stronger business, and this September's crop of increases is the cleanest example of that I've covered in a while. ST Engineering is the one I want to be precise about, since it's the only name here on my formal coverage. It did raise its dividend, but it still yields under 2% at today's price, which puts it at Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 5, Red Zone, a floor breach against my 3.2% minimum, not a hurdle miss. APAC Realty and Boustead aren't names I carry a formal zone call on, so I'm not attaching one here, just flagging what the reserve draw and the asset sale actually mean for whether either increase repeats next year. Your CPF and SRS money deserves better than a yield number that only looks generous because of where the cash actually came from.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: Why a Record-Breaking Market Can Still Feel Like a Bad Year for Income Investors

31 August 2026, AM

Podcast Release:

New episode is up this morning. Everyone assumes a stock missing my income bar means the business is slipping. Almost never true right now. Prices have run up faster than payouts have, so the yield math shrinks on paper while the company itself keeps performing just fine. One bank stock hit a fresh share price high this month with profit still growing double digits, and its payout still landed under my hurdle, because a special dividend that used to boost the number rolled out of the trailing window this year.

My Personal Take:

Here's the part worth sitting with. My hurdle doesn't move just because the market's in a good mood. It's anchored to the CPF Special Account rate, which has held steady at 4.0% all year, the toughest guaranteed yardstick available in this financial system, not to whatever feels generous during a record-breaking run. What has moved this year is the risk-free curve underneath it, T-bills and the 10-year Singapore government bond yield have both crept up, which raises the bar for what a dividend stock needs to clear to justify the extra risk over safer options. A quiet yield year is not the same thing as a bad year for the business behind the stock, and conflating the two is exactly the mistake this episode is trying to head off.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: A Fake 'Learn to Invest' Chat Group Just Cost Singaporeans $3.6 Million. Here's the Playbook

28 August 2026, PM

Video Release:

New piece up, and this one isn't about a stock. 48 people, S$3.6 million gone. This wasn't a hot-tip stock scam, it was a fake "free investing class" that never once pitched a single ticker. The Singapore Police Force flagged this on 4 June 2026, and those numbers still stand today. What makes it different is the design, fake mentors, fabricated profit screenshots, and a WhatsApp group built to feel like a real learning community, not a pump-and-dump.

My Personal Take:

If you manage CPF or SRS, the risk here isn't that you'll chase a hot tip, my usual warning. It's that you'll join something that genuinely feels helpful, then hand over cash or transfer money before checking MAS's Financial Institutions Directory, Register of Representatives, and Investor Alert List. This one works on careful people precisely because it exploits social proof, not greed, which is exactly why I wanted to cover it. No forensic screen catches this, no yield hurdle, no zone call, this is a different kind of risk entirely, and worth taking as seriously as any balance sheet I audit.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: OCBC's Yield Fell Even As the Price Hit a Record High. Here's How That Happens

28 August 2026, AM

Video Release:

New piece up on OCBC. It just printed a record intraday high while its ordinary dividend yield sits at 2.9%, below my 3.2% forensic floor. Profit growth of 13% year on year looks strong on paper, but the special payout that used to boost income has rolled out of the trailing window, leaving a smaller distribution set against a much higher share price.

My Personal Take:

If you're holding OCBC for retirement income in CPF or SRS, the share price gain does nothing for you if the dividend is what you actually spend. A record high and a passing grade on my framework are not the same thing, and this week's OCBC is the cleanest example I've seen in a while of that gap. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 5, Red Zone. This isn't a timing call I'd expect to reverse on its own, the yield has fallen through my structural floor, not just missed my hurdle, so I'm not framing this as patience being rewarded later. It's a straightforward statement about what the payout can support right now.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: SingPost's Profit Jumped 55% This Quarter. Here's What's Actually Driving It 🦖

28 August 2026, PM

Video Release:

New piece from Angela this time, on SingPost. Operating profit jumped 55% this quarter, but revenue barely moved, the gain came from spending less, not earning more. Domestic parcels were the only genuine growth engine, 7.1 million items, up 36.5%. Everything else, mail at home and overseas, is still shrinking.

Just Reporting:

Worth flagging on the payout specifically, since it's easy to read the headline number wrong. Total dividend works out to 0.55 cent per share, but 0.41 cent of that is a one-off from asset sales, not something you can count on repeating. The recurring slice is 0.14 cent, which works out to about 0.41% at S$0.34, well under my usual 4.7% yield hurdle. This one's outside my own forensic coverage for now, no formal zone call on SingPost, so Angela's take is the one to go watch if you're holding this for income.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: RHB Kept Its Nam Cheong BUY. Core Profit Still Fell 28%

29 August 2026, AM

Analyst Watch:

RHB Research, in a 26 August 2026 note carried on sginvestors.io, maintained BUY on Nam Cheong and left TP unchanged at S$2.05. The house cited 99% upside versus its reference price, and valued the stock at 5.7x FY27F P/E with a PEG below 1. Its case: fleet expansion, shipbuilding revenue returning, and a potentially better margin mix.

RHB called 1H26 in line. Revenue was MYR348m, up 25% y/y. Core earnings were MYR55m, down 28% y/y. Shipbuilding added MYR90m from delivery of one vessel, the first sales contribution in six years, at 25% gross margin. Chartering revenue was MYR259m, down 7%, with utilisation 65% versus 58%, and weaker utilisation on accommodation vessels. Chartering gross margin was 44.3%, down 6.5 percentage points. EBIT margin was 24% versus 42%, which RHB tied to higher opex, staff, and marketing for the Middle East, a new shipyard, and expansion. Headline net profit was MYR162m, up 160% y/y, and includes MYR107m of vessel-sale and other one-offs.

My Personal Take:

Two stories sat on the same page, and they are not the same story. RHB's BUY is a house call about fleet tightness, shipbuilding coming back, and a long OSV cycle. Nam Cheong is not on my forensic ledger, so I am not dressing that house case up as mine.

What I am sitting with is the split they already printed. Headline net profit jumped 160% because MYR107m of vessel-sale and other one-offs went through. Core earnings went the other way, down 28%, with chartering gross margin off 6.5 points and EBIT margin 24% versus 42%. Shipbuilding's first sales in six years showed up as MYR90m at a 25% gross margin. That is a return of a line of business. It is not the same thing as the charter book getting easier.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: SIA Has 4 Options With Air India's $1.5 Billion Ask. None of Them Are Free

28 August 2026, PM

Podcast Release:

New episode is up on SIA and Air India. The headline number isn't actually the risk here. Reuters reported Air India is seeking roughly US$1.5 billion in additional capital combined from Tata and SIA, and SIA's specific share of that hasn't been confirmed, SIA itself declined to comment on financials. What's already confirmed is that SIA has booked $945.2 million in equity-accounted losses from this stake this financial year, and that number sits on the balance sheet regardless of how the new ask gets split. The real question the episode digs into isn't whether SIA funds it, it's what funding does to dividend policy from here.

My Personal Take:

If you're holding SIA for CPF or SRS income, watch the payout, not the press release. Current ordinary yield sits above my 3.2% forensic floor but misses the 4.7% hurdle by roughly 90 basis points, not close enough to make this stock's zone call turn on a headline. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 4-, Caution, unchanged, this is a compound call, the yield miss plus weighted soft flags already sitting at 2.0. Only a genuine dividend cut, made to preserve balance sheet strength ahead of whatever SIA's actual Air India commitment turns out to be, would push this toward the 3.2% floor itself. Until that's confirmed one way or the other, I'm treating the capital-call story as a real watch item, not a reason to move the needle on the zone today.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: STI Closes 5,699.93 as Frencken Falls 7.48%

28 August 2026, PM

Market Data:

STI closed 5,699.93, up 15.81 points or 0.28%, ShareInvestor prints, delayed. Session high 5,700.52, low 5,673.55, open 5,684.38, previous close 5,684.12.

Related boards: FTSE ST All-Share 1,276.07, up 0.22%. Financials 2,560.05, up 0.59%. Catalist 198.35, down 0.93%. Energy 967.34, up 1.50%.

On the stocks tape, AvePoint rose 6.16% to 17.93. DBS closed 76.15, up 0.66%. SGX 25.51, up 0.87%. Frencken closed 2.35, down 7.48%. AEM 8.85, down 2.43%. Among actives, Addvalue Tech printed 0.169, up 4.97%, volume 228,535.9 thousand.

Just Reporting:

This is a close tape, not a zone day. The index finished green and Catalist finished red, and those are different boards, not the same story. Frencken's 7.48% print is the session, not a forensic call, and the name is still not on the ledger. I am not restating AEM from this tape. ShareInvestor's gainer list is sorted by dollar change, so the SPDR and gold ETFs sit at the top without being the day's real movers.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: US Inflation Warnings, Singapore Money. Is There Actually a Connection?

28 August 2026, PM

Macro Read:

A Fed official told Americans to be "on edge" over inflation at Jackson Hole. US PCE inflation sits at 3.7%, well above the Fed's 2% target. SORA is around 1.08 to 1.12%, and could nudge higher if the Fed hikes later this year. MAS manages the exchange rate, not interest rates. Global oil prices hit petrol and power bills regardless of policy.

Question I'm Sitting With:

The headline makes it sound like one global hallway. Singapore runs on three separate doors. Your CPF rate, MAS policy, and SORA-linked loans each react differently. We do not mechanically copy the Fed. That is the connection worth sitting with, and also the limit of it. This is not a yield call and not a zone.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: Frencken Falls 8% After a S$100 Million Placement

28 August 2026, PM

News:

Frencken (E28) fell as much as 8.3% on Friday after proposing a S$100 million share placement, Business Times reported (Shikhar Gupta, 28 August 2026). It opened as low as S$2.33, down S$0.21 from Tuesday's close of S$2.54. Trading was halted on Wednesday and Thursday.

The placement is 44.1 million new shares at S$2.2687, a 10% discount to the 25 August volume-weighted average price of S$2.5207, placed privately with institutional and accredited investors. That is about 10.3% of existing issued shares, and 9.3% of the enlarged base after completion. BT (Young Zhan Heng, 27 August 2026) said completion is expected on 3 September.

The company said the raise is to fund expansion in manufacturing, mechatronics, and advanced plastic solutions, and to leave room for strategic investments and M&A. After fees, about S$87.4 million (90%) is earmarked for that expansion and the balance sheet, and about S$9.7 million (10%) for working capital or bank-loan repayment. As at 30 June, Frencken had S$123 million in cash and S$53.2 million in borrowings. Mechatronics, including the semiconductor business, was 90.1% of first-half FY2026 revenue.

Year to date Frencken is still up 78.9% on the AI boom, BT said. Customers named include Applied Materials and ASML. 

Just Reporting:

This is a placement story, not a yield story. Frencken is not on the forensic ledger, so there is no zone line to restate. The 8% open is the market pricing a 10% discounted issue after a 78.9% year. On BT's own figures they already hold S$123 million of cash against S$53.2 million of borrowings, so this is not a cash-hole raise on those numbers. Whether the extra shares fund real capacity or just sit in front of the same earnings is a different question. AEM's year and UMS's year stay their own facts. They do not confirm anything about this name.

Not financial advice. 

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Iggy's Journal: The Acquisition Trap: How a Single Deal Can Make Any Company's Balance Sheet Look Terrible for a Year

27 August 2026, PM

Video Release:

New masterclass is up. Sembcorp's Net Debt to EBITDA jumped to 11.9x on paper this half, and on its own that number looks like a red flag. But Alinta Energy only closed on 11 June, so H1 2026 carries roughly two weeks of its earnings while the full acquisition debt landed in full. Brokers' pro-forma estimate puts the same ratio near 4.6x, a genuinely different picture depending on which number you anchor to.

Still Thinking This Through:

If you're holding Sembcorp for dividend stability in your CPF or SRS pot, my honest read is this looks like a timing distortion, not an immediate red flag, but I'm not calling it clean either. Iggy's Forensic Zone: NONE, I need Sembcorp's own debt maturity note and finance cost breakdown before I'd trust either the scary 11.9x or the comforting 4.6x. Until I have that, I'm treating the leverage as unverified, not resolved, and I'd rather sit with that discomfort than round it off in either direction.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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Iggy's Journal: UOB's Billion-Euro Bond Sold Out 4x Over. What That Number Is Really Telling You.

27 August 2026, PM

Market Data:

UOB just priced a €1 billion covered bond and took in more than €4 billion in orders. Four times oversubscribed on a single euro-denominated deal. That gap is not noise, it is international debt investors pricing UOB's funding as meaningfully lower risk than an ordinary bank loan, and putting real money behind that view.

My Personal Take:

I want to be precise about what this is and isn't. It's a funding-cost story, not a dividend story. UOB's yield to me right now sits just under 4 percent, still short of my 4.7 percent hurdle by around 80 basis points, and a cheap bond deal doesn't add a single cent to that payout. What it does support is the picture of a bank that global debt markets trust, which matters for balance sheet resilience, just not for the number I actually track for retirement income.

Not financial advice. Iggy's Forensic Compliance Standards apply.

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