Status update - Portfolio, Equities, Savings

Hi everyone,

 

Think it's time for a status update, regarding the portfolio, equities and savings.

 

A lot of changes has been done in the portfolio, since the mess with the accounting problems in Vardia. The portfolio has now got some structure and more longterm holdings,even if I am still building the portfolio at the moment. As I often say: "Rome wasnt built in one day".

 

The portfolio today consists of 5 equites and two index funds.

 

The equities are as follow: Starbucks (SBUX), Mastercard (MA), Hennes & Maurits (HMB:Stockholm), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Vardia (VARDIA:Oslo).

 

Index funds: Avanza Zero and DNB Global Indeks.

 

In short the portfolio has been declining since purchase date overall, Avanza zero which is a swedish index fund have not been performing well and Chipotle Mexican Grill as well, due to a E.Coli outbreak. Although it gives me great buying opportunities which is good, have been buying Chipotle a lot over the last couple of weeks/months and have now stopped since it taking up to much of my assets. Mastercard, Starbucks and Vardia are all performing.

 

The next purschase will probably be Hennes & Mauritz, if the decline continues. Everything below the stockprice 300 SEK for Hennes & Mauritz do I think is a good buying opportunity for a long term investor.

 

Total value of the portfolio will be around 230 000 SEK by the end of this year. Saving rate for this year has been under all critism and need to be increased over the next year. Target number for saving next year should be around 120 000 SEK, this should be a problem since I increased my salary heavily in my new position in November 2015.

 

In the upcoming weeks will I post some articles around the portfolio, equities holding at the moment, goals for 2016 and a saving schedule for the new year.

 

Stay tuned!

 

Merry christmas and a happy new year all!

 

Best regards,

EWI 

Building blocks in my portfolio strategy

As I told you in the last post that I have been working on a new strategy, which will be a mix between stocks and index funds. This post will be dedicated to describe the portfolio and the reason why I believe this is the best way to go.

From my experience in Vardia I reliazed the importance of diversification; the portfolio down 25% in one day is pretty bad when believing in value investment and that day got me to re-consider my diversification strategy and in the end my whole portfolio strategy. 

If you don't have a clear strategy for diversification and hiding behind Warren buffets strategy that is that if you know your companies you don't need to have to many in the portfolio (good article why Warren Buffet doesnt diversify here). I truly recommend you to re-consider your exposure to a few assets and think about all factors that could impact returns, everything from fraud to hackers gather all their data (think about Ashley Madison).

The new portfolio strategy will be built like this (percentage);

Stocks: 35%

Swedish index funds: 35%

Global index funds: 15%

U.S. index funds: 15%

This setup will be the building blocks in my portfolio, there will in most cases also be around 5% cash for unexpected opportunities. This 5% cash will be smaller as the portfolio grows and when it gets bigger there will be more monthly purchases. Why did I go for this strategy? Time.. Since I started to work I didn't reliaze how much time I spend on the work and how tired I am when I come home. In other words, I don't really believe I have the time to have 100% stocks in my portfolio, just because there's not enough time to analyse them and find the risks involved with them, therefore the diversification.

At the moment I'm 50% invested, and this will be the case for a while, since I believe we have pretty high valuations on the markets. This will change as soon as the market conditions are better, i got some this week; MasterCard (MA), Starbucks (SBUX) and DNB Global Indeks fund.

Now I'm off to a pool party, take care!

Eighth wonder investing