Wednesday 30 December 2020

Dividends Collected 2020

 


2020 passive income including CPF: $98.5k



My passive income for 2020 has dropped back down to a little above my 2018 levels. My hope is that 2021 will see a recovery to 2020 levels, followed by further gains in 2022. Therefore, I am setting a target for Financial Independence by end 2022.


25 Jan Edit - missed out $1.5k of Santander Scrip dividends which were paid on 14 Dec. Added to my total but didn't change the graphs.

Thursday 10 December 2020

LionGlobal All Seasons Fund - Ideal for SRS

 


As the year ends, I helped my family member to deposit SRS funds and use them to buy LionGlobal All Seasons Fund (Growth).  This is a balanced fund comprising 70% equities / 30% fixed income with an expense ratio capped at 0.50% (currently 0.49%).

After looking through the options and eliminating individual stock-picking, I found this to really be an ideal fund. As you can see from my own portfolio, I continue to underweight US stocks so this funds weighting of 22.5% S&P 500 ETF (32.6% when considering only the equities portion) is 'just nice' compared to the 56.8% weight in world ETFs like VWRA.

My sole reservation about this fund is that its fund size is still quite small, despite it being a really attractive fund in terms of expense ration and composition. Perhaps with such a low TER, the trailer fees collected by the unit trust platforms are very low, so there is little incentive to push this fund.



December 2020 Portfolio update





This is my bi-annual review of my portfolio to determine which are my largest holdings. 

Thanks to the Covid-19 "Vaccine" rally and my averaging down strategy, there are 6 new entrants into the "Medium" holdings category. There are also downgrades due to the fall in value of my Comfort Delgro and CDL HT holdings.

Thursday 3 December 2020