Networth = Total Assets – Total Liabilities
The growth in networth is calculated using the difference between the networth figures on 31 January 2020 and 29 February 2020.
The focus of my financial journey is to accumulate cash generating assets that will grow in value and cut down on liabilities, which results in higher networth.
EXPENSES
February is a low spending month with Food and Transportation contributing to about 51% of total expenses. I seriously did not buy any thing at all, other than necessities for the daily life. This is quite surprising. There is a nice cash inflow of 46.7%.
INVESTING
In the previous month, I was looking into the China and Hong Kong market as the stocks there came down a bit due to the Covid-19. In this month, the global stock market came down about 10%. But many stocks that I have been looking at, are still overvalued (to me).
I am also starting to look into the Europe market. My aim is to invest globally, so that risk is not concentrated in any particular country. My cash are ready for deployment whenever the stocks reach my targeted buying price.
The ACWI year-to-date return is -9.15% whereas my stock portfolio YTD return is -2.53%.
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SPECULATING
This section tracks the return of my forex speculating account. This is a pure speculating play. The year-to-date return is about -10.62%.
The trading is done automatically and I will not be doing any amendments to the trading system. I am slightly worried but will just wait and let the system continue to run.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Debt/Networth Ratio: 3.12%
Investment/Networth Ratio: 26.29%
Networth Month On Month Growth: +2.05%
Debt is very manageable now as a large part of this debt will be paid off over 24 months (interest free). I am thinking to buy a new Macbook Pro as my current one seems to be dying. That will be a couple thousand of dollars. Hence, debt might increase if I use my credit card to buy it.
If the stock market really drop a lot, I will be deploying my CPF money to buy into Singapore dividend paying stocks. This would increase the Investment/Networth Ratio significantly. Leaving the money to grow at 2.5% in the CPF-OA seems a bit low, compared to the dividend paying stocks that I am looking at.
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