After a year of working, I made my first investment of $10K into VTI. My […]
After a year of working, I made my first investment of $10K into VTI. My portfolio has now grown over the past six years. Below, I share my current progress and future goals for 2 portfolios.
US market ($246K>$500K)
Since graduating, I’ve primarily focused on investing in the U.S. stock market, aiming for capital appreciation due to the 30% dividend withholding tax. Over time, I’ve gradually shifted towards the Singapore stock market, focusing on dividends, broader market investments, and specific sectors.
I haven’t been actively managing this portfolio as much as I’ve been on the fence about how to proceed since stock picking already takes up a significant portion of my overall portfolio.
Meanwhile, I’m working on growing other areas of my investments.
Portfolio goal distribution
- IBKR: $500K
- Syfe: $50K (fixed)
- Singapore: $250K
- Endowus: $250K
My goal is to grow my IBKR portfolio to $500K, and I’m considering the best way to achieve that. Right now, U.S. stocks have been rising, with a $43K increase in my portfolio since the election results.
I need to figure out the specific stocks I want to buy and the price to enter.
Investment Priorities:
- Avoid a gambling mindset.
- Stay invested while maintaining diversification.
- Continue to save and invest consistently.
- Buying at the dips.
Keepers
- VTI
- IWDA
- MSFT
- GOOGL
- META
- CRM
- TSLA
- ASHR
- JPM
- AMZN
- AAPL
- IBKR
To be considered
- EL
- BAC
- CROX
- HUYA
- GXC
- YUMC
- CQQQ
- CHIQ
SG market ($86K>$250K)
As I am too heavily invested in the US market, I decided to allocate some funds into Singapore market. What’s on my mind: how much to allocate to capital gains (US market) vs dividend stocks (SG market).
Arbitrary allocation is the goal of 75% growth stocks and 25% dividend stocks.
The amount I put in for the Singapore market has dropped drastically as I had reallocate all the funds away from REITs.
Current allocation for Singapore market
- Banks 76%
- Reits 24%
Stocks allocation goal
- YZJ
- ST engineering
- HK land
- SGX
- REITs
- OCBC
- DBS
- UOB