Jun 28, 2020

Cory Diary : Net Worth - Just looking at the Chart

This update shows the impact of Covid-19 to Net Worth. The top green and white lines include property net value but won't be reflective in current scenario due to much reduced transaction for reference. If the crisis deepened, we should see the Property net value to reduce and therefore lower level lines.

The Cyan line is the liquid line and current YTD is roughly the same as start of year. Basically recovery of the stock market and some saving from the first half year. At personal level there is V-shaped recovery in asset.

The Yellow line is the investment in Stock market and Gov securities which in total maintained. Showing some similar story of nearly a V-shaped recovery. However, equity dividend expectation has increased to $62k at current invested amount.

With major items like Tax, Parental allowances, Confinement costs and most of normal cost for 2nd daughter delivery already paid, 2nd half should see higher net worth unless the stock market has 2nd dip. This is mitigated with sizable FD, SSB and cash. Investment wise,  retaining dividends, saving and 75% of warchest amount remaining for it.


Cory
2020-0628

Jun 21, 2020

Cory Diary : Asset Investment hierarchy of needs


Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. 

Broadly a sample I got as follow,

Maslow's hierarchy


Similarly for Investment, there are a lot of psychology involves in how we manage Greed and Fears. This can be classify by level of risks individuals willing to take but with the the ratio (equivalent to assets) adjusted as one progress on asset levels below.


This is depicts from Left to Right as one net-worth increases. A simplified model. In reality, asset between classes may have situation could not flow freely such as if one introduces Pensions or CPF layer which could limits.

The logic that we fulfilled the basic minimum on cash holding which could increase with changing circumstances but nevertheless small in area in the triangle but the absolute figures likely larger. Follow by different level of investment risks.

One key point to look at is the SSB where the area on left is larger with just 100k investment whereas the right triangle the SSB is much smaller but has 200K allocated. This is primarily due to much larger asset base as one progress in life.

The dividend investment increased significantly in area and absolute as well as one build up dividend investing with potentially  taking into consideration of diversification.

The Property can be home or investment property. Some would feel this should be at lower level.  I would agreed if is home to be one of bottom but property usually comes later especially when the government do a good job of providing to the masses when we are much younger than our oversea cohorts. 

As one's career develop and salary increase, and existing home get paid down, chances are we could afford an investment property. Then the peak is more off investment purposes. In some society, renting is common, and not necessarily a need to own one.

The main essence is if one meets the basics, psychologically we are much more prepared for investment dynamics and ride better between bulls and bears while highly vested in market or making investment decision.


Cheers

Cory
2020-0621









Jun 15, 2020

Cory Diary : Dividend Report Jun'20

Recession or not for Dividend Investor, the mentality is always Dividend please come. This is true till we are hit by Covid-19 Black Swan event which continue to play out 6 months into the crisis.

One of the key believe is that as long the business is stable, dividends will be relatively stable. It is "Bond like". Is a time where most of what Cory believes get challenged. It  is as seems someone up there do this purposely.

Do we change ? Not if we are relatively diversified in our strategy. For example CMT is one of core stock. Despite that it is less than 10% of the portfolio. So with recent income retention by CMT, the Portfolio dividend continues to churn.



In fact, with such dynamic market, this is where new gem can be found into one's basket of stocks. So when there is new opportunity arises, instead of expanding CMT, we can secure a new dividend stock. There are many ways to do this including tapping more of the warchest.

As of now YTD, dividends received $24,990. There is more to come before Jun end. The theoretical dividend roughly $60,500 which is about 14% increase by year end compared to Year 2019. Total dividend received since tracking $350,340. Cheers, Covid or Not

Cory
2020-0615