Over the past few weeks, we have been consuming more and more content surrounding the US market. And through that too, we finally caught up with the ARK fund and all the hype around it. Prior to this, we have heard of them, but did not really pay attention to why they were so popular. …
Continue reading The Market Is Extremely Greedy Now – Signs Of Caution?
Earlier this week, one reader dropped us a comment in our previous post asking us what caused us to move our holdings from Singapore stocks to US growth stocks, and we thought we wanted to share more about our thinkings behind it. We have probably mentioned this a few times since August that we are …
Hi everyone! It's been almost another month since we updated! How's everyone holding up? 🙂 As with our monthly updates, here are what we've done in October with regards to our personal finance. Portfolio Transactions Mr BudgetPosition Added: SE, Fastly, SyfeTake Profit: N/A Mrs BudgetPosition Added: SE, Fastly, SyfeTake Profit: N/A For October, both Mr …
Continue reading What Have We Done This Month Towards Our Financial Goals – October 2020
In September, the S&P 500 index retraced back to its August levels, but has since recovered most of the correction and looks to continue climbing upwards. As of today, the index is at 3477, and is just inches away to hitting its all time high at 3580. One of the previous misconceptions that I have …
Continue reading Our Misconception About The S&P500 And The Local Economy
Hi everyone! Following our monthly updates on our financial goals and expenses, we have also been keeping a record on our Syfe investments. As we’ve probably mentioned a lot of times before, we view Syfe as our “professionally managed” portion of our portfolio. Syfe, as a roboadvisor, is also an affordable way for us to …
Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates in September. Was feeling slightly unmotivated by the market and there wasn’t any topic inspired by the lacklustre market performance. Hopefully we will get spurts of topic ideas and we can continue sharing our thoughts here. 🙂 And so September is over now, and that means 75% …
Continue reading What Have We Done This Month Towards Our Financial Goals – September 2020
Hi everyone! Following our monthly updates on our financial goals and expenses, we have also been keeping a record on our Syfe investments. As we’ve probably mentioned a lot of times before, we view Syfe as our “professionally managed” portion of our portfolio. Syfe, as a roboadvisor, is also an affordable way for us to …
So August has came and gone now. And wow we are in September now, with only 4 more months left in 2020. Time really flies and its as if 2020 never really happened. August has been another relatively slow month in terms of our day to day lifestyle for both Mrs Budget and myself. Nothing …
Continue reading What Have We Done This Month Towards Our Financial Goals – August 2020
Every once in a while, we will receive emails from our readers often asking questions around the same theme, and we thought it will be good to address them here in an article for easier future reference. The most common question asked is - how do we purchase US stocks and how do we track …
Continue reading What We Use To Purchase Stocks, Track Expenses, And Manage All Our Finances
Over the past few weeks, Mr Budget’s US equity portfolio has swelled from S$80,000 end of last month to now over S$100,000, hence hitting a new milestone in his investment journey! Most of the gains are due to gains from his existing counters, which are continuing to hit their all time high. We only made …
