Earlier this week, someone asked us our thoughts on any stocks to recommend. Of course, there are simply way too many available stocks globally to recommend and there isn't a "one-size-fit-all" stock or portfolio composition. But we wanted to share some thoughts on how we look at our portfolio composition so that it may be …
Continue reading A Deeper View On US Stocks – Safe And Aggressive Stocks
Earlier last week, Mrs Budget and I took part in probably one of the hottest IPO in the recent history - Airbnb. If you have not already heard, Airbnb went public at the price of $68 last Thursday. On the day of the trading, Airbnb traded up a whopping 120% before closing at $139.25, more …
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 …
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 …
So one of the relatively bigger finance news these few days is the launch of a new 100% global equity portfolio by Syfe, called the Equity100 portfolio. As one of the early adopters of Syfe, we are definitely excited when we hear this news. One of the reason why we are excited is for this …
Continue reading Our Take On Syfe’s New Equity100 Portfolio And How We Will Be Investing In It
For the longest time, when Mr Budget look at portfolio shared by other individuals, whenever we saw that the figure is more than S100,000, there will be slight envy. A 6 figure portfolio seemed to be an invisible target to hit - probably because of all the media sharing articles on how one should reach …
Continue reading New Portfolio Milestone And The Confusing State Of The Current Stock Market
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
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, …
Mr Budget recently came across a thread on Quora which is quite interesting - What is the wisest financial advise you have heard from a rich person. According to Mr Wonderful, one of the sharks of Shark Tank, he follows a few investing rules: If a company has no cash-flow, don’t invest! A company without …
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