Monday, December 4, 2017

Summary of My Investment For 2017

How time flies, its near the end of 2017 already. We are now in the month of December which is just less than one month away from the Christmas and new year celebrations again. In this post, I will do a summary of my investments and what has happened in 2017. Nearer to the end of the year or early start of next year, I'll write another post on the investment strategies for 2018.

For 2017, it has been an extraordinary year for investments. You may ask how extraordinary is it? Using the Straits Times Index as a benchmark, if we have invested at the start of the year and did nothing, it would have gained about 18% return on investment by now.


The STI ETF started at 2.95 at the beginning of the year. It is now at 3.48. I did invest some of my money into the STI ETF back when it was $2.80 last year. To date, it has gained over 30% inclusive of dividends.

For this year, I only had 14 buy and sell transactions. Most of the stocks were bought near the end of last year where I thought valuations were attractive back then. Some of my stocks were acquired, especially the Japanese Reits, which had been a good income investment (7%-9% dividends) and also capital gain (more than 80%). For 2017, I invested more into the hospitality sector namely Far East Htrust. I also subscribed to the rights of CDL Htrust. Both investments have been good especially CDL HTrust which has seen its value went up close to 30%. I also invested into Comfort Delgro seeing the distress in the taxi industry. It has yet to be proven whether this investment will work out so there's still much monitoring to do.

There was another rights issue by Capital Commercial Trust (CCT) which I also subscribed to it. I manage to get quite a lot of excess rights which was a bonus. The investment in CCT has gained over 50% (inclusive of dividends) to date. Office Reits are performing quite well currently where there are expectations that office rents and occupancy will continue to do well. Another investment I have in office Reits is Suntec Reit which also provides stable dividend income for me.

All in all, the average dividend yield of my investment portfolio is about 5.14% and the XIRR this year is around 21.17%. My portfolio value is slightly above $60K now. The next plan will be to increase my investments to $100K whenever opportunities to invest comes my way. There remains a few weeks left to the end of 2017. I may still have some other transactions in December and also there is one more dividend from Singtel where there will be a special dividend paid out.

We shall see how the market performs for the rest of the year. Elsewhere on the news, Bitcoin has been really hot these days where I see people everywhere talking about it. This is a sign of a bubble which we do not want to see. I'm not into this investment and will stay away from it as far as I know. It is never a good thing to have greed in investments.

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12 comments:

  1. Hi SGYI,

    Wonderful performance on portfolio you have this year and really impressive XIRR there. I believe that in time, CDG will play out well along with the recovery of hospitality sector :)

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    1. Hi sleepydevil,

      Thank you. Yeah hope CDG will turn out well too! Hospitality sector is indeed recovering.

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  2. Hi SGYI, what is your total capital invested for your slightly $60k portfolio?

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    1. Hi,

      Its about 50%. It used to be above 50% but my capital has increased this year due to more savings added.

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    2. I understand that you hold 50% cash and 50% in stocks. How many % of your cash is parked under fixed deposit or singapore savings bonds etc?

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    3. Hi,

      I do not put my cash into fixed deposit or SSB. My cash is put into 3 high interest savings account namely OCBC 360, CIMB starsaver and fast saver.

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  3. Hi SGYI,

    Congrats on your good returns for this year. Definitely a feat to be beating the STI returns!

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    1. Hi 15HWW,

      Thanks! Just beating the STI by a little. I'm sure your portfolio would have beat it too :)

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  4. Good luck in achieving $100k, after that you can work forward to on $300k, $500k and $1mil. Ride on the power of compounding.

    Congrats for beating the index for this year. You have a basket of quality stocks such as CCT and CDL. I hope that ComfortDelgro will do better soon and I am confident that they are able to sustain their dividends for next year.

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    1. Hi Eye of the storm,

      Yes ride on the power of compounding. CDG should do better but need to wait. Hope they get some good partnerships soon.

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  5. Would u ever consider to invest in Bitcoin?

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    1. Hi,

      Not at the moment when its attracting so much attention

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