Portfolio Update: December 2017

It’s a pretty decent end to the year.

Month-on-month, the portfolio managed to increase by $3,000 and the value of the portfolio is right back to where it was in October, at $428,000. 

The 15HWW Permanent Portfolio continues to surprise and in fact, was responsible for most of the gains this month.

This cannot be said for the DWI sub-portfolio, which continues to underperform, continuing the trend in this second half of the year. Hopefully, its return catches up with the others in 2018.

It’s a lean income month so not surprisingly, there are no transactions at all for this month.

Overall Portfolio (Value: $428,000)


1. 15HWW Permanent Portfolio
Berkshire B has been on a tear and is up close to 10% as compared to the previous month. This more than offsets the drop for gold.

One tranche of the SSBs and the FCL bonds gave out coupons, adding a few hundred dollars to the cash position.

USD-SGD Rate: 1.35

UOB 50 Gram PAMP Gold Price: $2,718 x 6 = $16,308

Annualised Return: 7.7% (Jan 2017 to Dec 2017)


2. Personal Picks
This sub-portfolio actually did well to maintain its value, considering Singtel just went XD.

The star performer this month has to be MCT, up almost 5% from the previous month while Comfort remains abysmal.

Annualised Return: 6.7% (Nov 2010 to Dec 2017)


3. DWI Picks
I subscribe to Dr Wealth Insiders (DWI) as a form of diversification. Only time can tell if I had made a good choice. And for obvious reasons, I will not be revealing the make-up of this portfolio. However, I can probably still document it by noting down a few comments and indicators below.

The sub-portfolio, largely made up of small caps, is lagging way behind the indexes for this year. Does it mean it’s a good time to add? I actually think so.

I am almost definitely sticking to this strategy for at least 5 years before fully evaluating it.

Portfolio Value: $74,449

Number of local stocks: 6

Number of international stocks: 4

Annualised Return: 4.0% (Sep 2016 to Dec 2017)


4. Warchest
This is the amount of cash or cash equivalents we have that is ready to be deployed into the markets.

There is a small increase of $1,000 since we received some bumper dividends.

Warchest Value: $88,000


 

 

6 Replies to “Portfolio Update: December 2017”

  1. Good wrap up for 2017.
    It’s been tougher to find undervalued investments of late (maybe I’m not looking hard enough and/or looking in the wrong places).

    May we have bumper harvests in 2018!
    Happy holidays!

  2. That’s a nice healthy uptrend in your overall portfolio! Congrats on the good result! A 20% cash balance + some gold is a good buffer….that reminds me….time to get get some gold coins for when the zombies come.

  3. Hello I just can not understand the gold price in your portfolio- how is the figure of $30,805 reached ? This is singapore dollars or US dollars ?

    What does the number 90 mean ? what does the number 161.082 mean ?

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