The Edge Singapore's ten global stock picks

When buying stocks, investors should disregard sentiments of the day — whether buoyed by central banks and the US Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing to infinity” or buffeted by doom and gloom news of surging infections, job losses or company closures.

EA performed relatively well in our portfolio with a 15.9% return in just six months and handily outperformed the other three benchmark indices, the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and MSCI US.

Facebook performed decently in our portfolio with a 9.6% return in the past six months and outperformed the other three benchmark indices, the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and MSCI US.

HMA was the top performer among our top 10 stock picks, with a 109.5% return in six months, significantly outperforming the other two benchmark indices, the Hang Seng and MSCI Hong Kong.

Harvey Norman saw a 1.9% increase and 4.1% decline in revenue and net profits y-o-y for 1HFY2020

Although ISRG registered a 0.3% loss for the six-month period, it still outperformed the other three benchmark indices, Dow Jones, S&P 500 and MSCI US.

Isra Vision was one of the top performers in our portfolio with a 30.3% return for the six-month period and easily outperformed the other two benchmark indices, the MSCI Europe and Deutsche Boerse.