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 …
Recently I have been thinking a fair bit about our portfolio structure. There are two types of portfolio: growth portfolio, and dividend portfolio. As the name suggest, growth portfolio consists of high growth stocks but the downside is that, these stocks don't pay out dividends. Dividend portfolio on the other hand, are made up of …
Continue reading What We’ve Learnt This COVID19 – Using US Stocks To Boost Overall Portfolio Gain
Few nights ago, Mrs Budget shared something which we thought we should pen our thoughts down. So over the past few months, Mrs Budget has been cashing out the money payments received from the loans she backed through funding society, a peer to peer loan financing company. If you are unfamiliar with funding society, basically …
Continue reading Funding Societies’ Rising Default Rate Paints Worrying State Of SG Businesses
So March and 2020 first quarter has came and gone now. And March has been yet another a roller coaster month because of the whole virus situation. While everyone else is doing a monthly portfolio update, we thought it is more meaningful to document what we have done this month towards our financial goals. Subscriber …
Continue reading What Have We Done This Month Towards Our Financial Goals – March 2020
One of the biggest dilemma that we are facing now is, when should be deploy our capital back into the market. The sensible response to that is, keep DCA-ing now because one can never successfully time the market. That’s especially true because who are we if professionals themselves can’t time the market correctly. Our cash …
Frequent followers of Mr and Mrs Budget will know that Mr Budget had started a regular savings plan with Syfe. The main reason why Mr Budget decided to go for Roboadvisor is because he is looking for a more affordable way to invest in multiple baskets of ETFs to get more diversification. Another reason is …
So February has came and gone now. And wow February has been a roller coaster month because of the whole virus situation. While everyone else is doing a monthly portfolio update, we thought it is more meaningful to document what we have done this month towards our financial goals. Mr BudgetPosition Added: MTQ, Syfe Global …
Continue reading What Have We Done This Month Towards Our Financial Goals – February 2020
So one of the biggest thing that happened earlier today was that, Malaysia’s prime minister has just announced that he will be resigning as the prime minister of Malaysia. The motives aside, the stock market of Malaysia reacted and fell to its 5 years low, the index fell below 1500 points for the first time …
Continue reading Geopolitical Risk In Malaysia Is Seriously Scaring Investors Away
One of the recent discussions I had with Mrs Budget was that, I should have held on to some of the stocks I bought when I started investing back in mid 2017. Back then, Mr Budget started off by looking at US equities. Some of the popular counters which I was looking at include NVIDIA, …
Recently, Singapore’s Roboadvisor Syfe has just announced the launch of their new real estate portfolio. As the name suggest, with the new Syfe REIT+, you get to invest in a basket of REITs in Singapore. The portfolio also combines Singapore listed REITs and Singapore Government Bonds and rebalances both the composition based on market sentiments. For …
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