This is best summaries by Tan Choong Hwee, a Guru in CPF on below viewpoint. And I wanted to take pain to emphasis the non-partisan perspective that we need to look at when come to our financial well being. And I wanted to share this such that everyone has an opinion that we can listen and need not necessarily agreed such that we all grow as a better person.
CPF
"Look at this in another angle. Do we realize that we are trusting someone/something where we park our money?
- Deposit in bank: we are trusting the bank to do its job well of keeping our money safe and paying us interests.
- Invest in stocks/bonds/unit trusts/ETFs/crypto: we are trusting the counter party in handling our investment and paying us when we liquidate our investment.
- Invest in insurance policy: again we are trusting the people involved (insurance agents, financial advisors) and the insurance company who offered the policy.
- Invest in property: we are trusting the agents/lawyers to do a proper job and the transactions are genuine (not fraud).
- Keep in Milo tin: we are trusting that nobody steals it nor losing it to termites and fire.
Do you think we ever have full control of our money? Trust is paramount in the whole monetary system.
And who do you trust more? Government, companies or individuals?"
Here's my Asset allocation.
Past months I have actioned quite an amount of steps to ensure baseline plan is done for my CPF which I have neglected for long time. Here's the page link. On another perspective, CPF in total is less than 10% of my asset today. So there is also mitigation in-place if I am wrong like any investment plan. I hope to do another 4 years of VC3AC to the max limits allowed. And in my case due to continue employment and investment, the percentage may not grow in term of asset.
Equity
Equity has come down slightly to my surprise as I started Growth Journey in US market. In my personal opinion, the market is really elevated and quite high risk to buy now. My early article on 5 steps strategy is to allow me to have a toe in there while I took profits on some local shares increasing my investment cash account by about 2 points. Saving account by 1.5 point. My concern is that if the US market is to crash, SGX will do no better and I can utilize Warchest to benefit from it hopefully.
Performance
The first month of Year 2021 is interesting. At one point STI is well ahead before it pars down by early Feb. Market continues to be listless even after Trump as Market seems not really excited with Biden as everyone has hoped for despite democrats holding all the cards now.
In term of currency exposure, I now have more Euro, US and Pounds denominated stocks. This is more due to local reit asset yield is low for those strong Reits. To bang the buck harder, reits with oversea asset looks more attractive. However I have to make sure the amount of each allocated is not significant enough to cause me worries.
Core sectors such as DBS, Vicom, SGX, OCBC and Netlink BNB Tr are holding up well. Growth segment wise is still relatively small and currently has a slight positive in net. I hope the market allows me to grow some more before the omega happens if it does. The growth gives the portfolio edge in worldwide diversification and more long term growth.
With that my portfolio now consist mainly of Core, Reits, Growth and Transition-in-process from Company Bonds to CPF.
Cory
2021-0206
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Just realised I have 4 of your 5 core sectors as my top holdings too. ;)
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