Strategy Report Jan 2018: Small dip

A small market correction in a overheated market occurred shortly after I received my $20k+ for the GLP privatisation. Bought US$11k and GBP4,060 and used it to purchase shares during the small blip. 

I haven't had much practice buying shares in a downturn since Brexit, so this was an opportunity to get back into practice by starting off with purchases of small amounts. This way, when the prices get really good, I'm ready to press the order button on bigger amounts. 

Each time I buy, the price goes down further, which is something I am familiar with. I guess I am more comfortable with averaging down as opposed to averaging up. 

I also bought some Singapore spares, namely Singtel, Frasers HT and Fraser LITR.

Dividend Report: Jan 2018

Average dividends per month: Jan 2018

S$1,253.1   [2017: $408]  SCB FHT dividends were late.

£645.51        [2017: £352.21]

US$951.10    [2017: US$627.24]

A$72.21        [2017: none]

Notes:

Average dividend per month = total dividend collected / number of months in the year so far.+ and - are used to indicate whether the average monthly dividend has gone up or gone down.Vanguard quarterly dividends reported on Jan/April/Jul/Oct

2017 Performance of largest holdings

2017 Portfolio performance of the largest holdings including dividends. Measured between 3 Jan to 31 Dec. (If I used 3 Jan 2018 I could add 1% more because the stock market continued to go up on 3 Jan).

My largest holding is STI ETF. My 2nd and 3rd largest holdings, OCBC and CDL HT outperformed the STI ETF. Unfortunately, one of my previously Band 1 holdings dropped to Band 2 - CDG. 


Band 1: Big holdings
STI ETF       3 Jan $2.96  29 Dec $3.45.  +20%
OCBC          3 Jan 8.98   29 Dec  12.39.  Dividends 0.18+0.18. +42%

CDL Hospitality Trust   3 Jan 2017 - $1.30 29 Dec 2017 - $1.69 Dividends $0.056 + $0.041 +37.5% 


Band 2: Medium size holdings
First State Regional China Fund  2.9078 / 3.9863  +37.1% gain.

Comfort Delgro (dropped from band 1)  -16.7% loss

Frasers Centrepoint Trust  2.24 / 1.91  - 0.33 + 0.03+0.03+0.03+0.29  +23.5%
Ascott Residence Trust (due to rights issue and excess rights, a bit hard to calculate) 
UOB  26.45 / 20.41   - 6.04 + 0.35+0.35 = 6.74  +33%
Vanguard UK ETF  - 34.1 / 32.02  - 2.08+.2214+.36046+.44255+.3352=3.43961   +10.7% (GBP terms)
Vanguard Asia Pacific ETF 27.62/ 21.81 = 5.81+ 0.19876+0.21307+.16434+.25156=6.63773  +30.4% (US$ terms)

Band 3: Small size holdings
Too many

Dividend Report: Dec 2017

Dividend per month for 2017:  S$4,459.21

An increase of 26.0% from 2016 ($3,538.06)


After converting foreign dividends to SGD at GBP 1.8 / USD 1.34 / A$1.06



Average dividends per month: Jan- Dec 2017

S$3,440.50   [2016: $3,185.86]

£227.04        [£143.06]   (=S$408.67)

US$414.43    [US$67.74] (=S$555.34)

A$51.50 = S$54.70

Average dividends per month: Jan- Nov 2017

S$3,543.94 [2016: $3,254.66]

£247.68     [2016:£156.06]

US$451.25   [2016: US$219.20]

Notes:

Average dividend per month = total dividend collected / number of months in the year so far.+ and - are used to indicate whether the average monthly dividend has gone up or gone down.Vanguard quarterly dividends reported on Jan/April/Jul/Oct

Dividend Report: Nov 2017

Average dividends per month: Jan- Nov 2017

S$3,543.94 [2016: $3,254.66]

£247.68     [2016:£156.06]

US$451.25   [2016: US$219.20]

Average dividends per month: Jan- October 2017

S$3,770.71  [2016: $3,334.63]

£268.14       [2016:£171.67]

US$465.53    [2016: US$221.28]

(also small amount of A$ from IOZ and TLS, will just report at end of the year)










Notes:

Average dividend per month = total dividend collected / number of months in the year so far.+ and - are used to indicate whether the average monthly dividend has gone up or gone down.Vanguard quarterly dividends reported on Jan/April/Jul/Oct

Largest Holdings

I decided to start my year end portfolio review (my portfolio has too many counters I admit :D) and to see what action I need to take next year.

From what I see, given the nature of the market, I need to move more ETFs into the Medium size holdings category, such as my Europe ETF, and two move the 2 medium size ETFs into the 'big' category.  Big/medium/small  is all relative to the total portfolio size and not absolute amounts.

It shows that I am too dependent on the yield from REITs, really need to find alternatives but all my yieldstocks got delisted (Allgreen, Cerebos, F&N, Singapore Food,  etc etc)

Not saying that my portfolio is good or bad just sharing what I have and maybe my resolution in 2018 is to do some reorganisation.

Band 1: Big holdings
STI ETF
OCBC
CDL Hospitality Trust

Band 2: Medium size holdings
First State Regional China Fund
Comfort Delgro (dropped from band 1)
Frasers Centrepoint Trust
Ascott Residence Trust
UOB
Vanguard UK ETF
Vanguard Asia Pacific ETF

Band 3: Small size holdings
Too many

Dividend Report: Oct 2017

Another quiet month for dividends. Perennial Retail Bond coupon payment this month




Average dividends per month: Jan- October 2017

S$3,770.71  [2016: $3,334.63]

£268.14       [2016:£171.67]

US$465.53    [2016: US$221.28]

Average dividends per month: Jan- Sep 2017

S$4,102.56  [2016: $3655.43]

£229.44       [2016:£146.99]

US505.06    [2016: US$169.21]

(also small amount of A$ from IOZ and TLS, will just report at end of the year)










Notes:

Average dividend per month = total dividend collected / number of months in the year so far.+ and - are used to indicate whether the average monthly dividend has gone up or gone down.Vanguard quarterly dividends reported on Jan/April/Jul/Oct