Singapore's Blue Chips Are Paying You With Your Own Money — Here's the Proof | EP1650🦖

Singapore's Blue Chips Are Paying You With Your Own Money — Here's the Proof | EP1650🦖

SingTel paid a record 18.5 cents per share, yet the core dividend that actually supports retirement income is only 13.4 cents. The extra 5.1 cents came from selling assets, not from telecom operations, and when those assets run out that portion disappears forever.

For your CPF and SRS drawdown, the real yield is 3.3% once you strip the VRD, which fails my 4.7% minimum yield hurdle by 1.4 percentage points. At S$200,000 deployed, that gap costs you S$3,000 a year in income with an expiry date. Iggy's Forensic Zone: Zone 4 — Caution.

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