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Why Singapore's market is great for dividend yields, and listen to top regional stock picks.

Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, get our tips on working smarter, getting ahead in your career and investing like a pro with ST's business correspondents and editors.

Host Ven Sreenivasan - associate editor at The Straits Times - offers you an extra edge in managing your hard-earned money.

In this episode, he hosts Thilan Wickramasinghe - regional research director at Maybank - discuss interest rates, inflation, recession, and its impact on financial markets, and in particular, risk assets such as stocks. 

They focus on the region, and in particular the Singapore stock market, to see where the threats and opportunities lie, and how investors should position themselves amid current volatile and uncertain macro and micro conditions.

In particular, they discuss why South-east Asia may outperform other regional markets in the medium term.

Highlights (click/tap above):

2:40 Why there is a crisis in confidence all round?

7:10 Why volatility presents threats and good opportunities at the same time; how to position yourself

9:43 Why Singapore has been rated as one of Asia's best markets in dividend yields

14:10 Top stock picks for Singapore and around the region 

15:38 Wrap-up of key themes to remember from expert analysis

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Produced by: Ven Sreenivasan (ven@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Teo Tong Kai

Edited by: Teo Tong Kai

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