Am starting to invest. Say after putting aside my liquid cash and have $10k on spare. What investments do you guys feel is a good start?

For 10k capital, try to find value stock and grow your capital.

Hey Beevan! Before you invest, I would strongly suggest you to build up your knowledge first. Understand how does it work, what Brokerage are there, and read a lot of books! You can start from forums (I started from HWZ) or finance blogs too. Afterall, the idea is not to invest just because you have the cash now, but rather wait for the correct opportunity to come by. REITs are pretty overvalued now too.

The right answer would revolve around your objectives, risk appetite, etc. etc. However, a more direct answer would be

1. SGX listed blue chips with decent dividend yield

the reason is, you are starting out so you wouldnt want to be exposed to ccy risk. Blue chips usually are household names and their businesses are familar to you. They are more stable and usually are cash cows which will not scare you unduly due to volatility. Lastly, dividend yields are very encouraging for starting investors who get to see some returns credited back to your account! Hope this helps. You can choose to DCA through a RSP as well, but that's abit more passive

The key word to me is "good start". This suggests to me it is tallied to a beginner point of view.

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Hence I would recommend the STI ETf, little research and monitoring is needed and the STI ETF delivers a decent long term positive annual returns