February 28th, 2009

The guys over at SGEntrepreneur, has done a follow-up interview with Mr Leonard Lin, co-founder of Tyler Projects and got a quick update on what he and his scurvy crew are up to. Tyler Projects is a local software startup that is renowned for its popular Facebook MMO game “BattleStations”.
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February 28th, 2009

The Straits Times
A SECOND group of Lehman Minibond investors has announced plans to take the distributors and trustee of the failed product to court.
The investors – they call themselves the Minibond Investors Action Group or MIAG – appears to be larger than a 250-strong group that threatened legal action last week.
It also appears to have a more concrete legal strategy.
The organisers hope to get about 1,000 investors to commit between $2,000 to $3,000 each for a $2.5 million warchest that will fund court action, possibly in May, against the various Minibond distributors and and the products’ trustee, HSBC Trustee.
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February 28th, 2009

Den of the Lion Investor
DBS STI ETF started trading yesterday.
According to the notice filed by DBS, 2,411,410 units were created at an issue price of $1.62 per unit. This works out to a total fund size of about $3.9 million.
It looks that the amount of funds raised is quite small. As the fund has a minimum trustee fee of $48k per year, this means the expense ratio would exceed 1% (at the current fund size).
Unless DBS can get more institutional interest into this fund, the small fund size will most likely mean it will be a loss making ETF for them.
As a comparison, Streettracks STI ETF has 256 million units in circulation with a fund size of almost $400 million.
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