Is it a good investment for retail bonds at 3.4% & 3.6%?

OLAM 1 year bond at 3.6% and Mappletree log 2.5 yrs bond at 3.4%. Are they good investment ? What should a novie investor like me should look out for ? Is the yield good enough as compared to other bonds or safer alternatives? What are the alternatives to these bonds?

CD's are paying more than that. Why bond an unsecured bond?

WHATEVER you decide don't do a CD i like to refer to those as Certain Death lets say a bank is offering a cd at 5% for 1 year now consider you have to pay taxes and inflation cost. now your true CD rate for one year is roughly 1.54%. Doesnt look so great now does it!!!!

Looks good.

Depending on your goals, you should buy different type of investments.

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3.6% is lousy. A one yr CD is doing 4.86%.

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it depends on individuals
u can go for stuctured deposits : mini bonds -> 3-4yrs 5-6%
but min sg $5k

unit trusts on bonds? GEM- global emerging bonds?
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or buy stocks like SP Ausnet? about $100 dividend per lot
this company gives high yield, much better than 3-4%

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