$$$ KPO and CZM $$$: StashAway - April 2019

Saturday, May 25, 2019

StashAway - April 2019

Clearing overdue post after vacation... You can read how one of our Prada bags got stolen without our knowledge here. My mum and sister did some research and showed me how easy it is to unlock the luggage last night.

Anyway, we have 3 portfolios on 2 accounts now due to our new strategy - New Strategy: StashAway + Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS):
KPO and CZM Cash - StashAway Risk Index 20%
KPO SRS - StashAway Risk Index 13%
CZM SRS - StashAway Risk Index 13%

1. PORTFOLIO SUMMARY (as of the last day of the month)

KPO

CZM
Based on the statement (30 April 2019), KPO made $409.39 and CZM made $12.50.

KPO
CZM
As of 25 May 2019, these are our portfolio performance:
KPO: $862.86 (+9.8% - Capital: $18,500)
CZM: $24.77 (+4.0% - Capital: $1,000)

2. PORTFOLIO DETAILS 
Note that these are reported in USD.

KPO and CZM Cash - StashAway Risk Index 20%

KPO SRS - StashAway Risk Index 13%

CZM SRS - StashAway Risk Index 13%
Our StashAway SRS accounts are showing a slight difference now due to fees being deducted from my account.

3. TRANSACTIONS


KPO and CZM Cash - StashAway Risk Index 20%:
SGD $490.40 converted to USD $362.21
Exchange Rate: 1.3539 (1.3561 last month)

KPO SRS - StashAway Risk Index 13% + CZM SRS - StashAway Risk Index 13%:
There was a delay in deposit/transfer so it will only be captured in the May statement.

4. FEE CALCULATIONS

KPO
The fee stated is based on the monthly-average assets SGD $18,483.75 x 0.8% / 365 days * 31 days = $12.56 but I am getting first 10k off for referring CZM + some credits for charging the fee wrongly last month. Hence, the final fee is just $0.54.

CZM
No fee for CZM for the first 6 months.

StashAway VS STI ETF
Since there is no way to compare the performances among the robo-advisors, I came out with a spreadsheet to track our StashAway portfolio performance (General Investing - Risk Level 28) against that of STI ETF which I will be updating on a monthly basis. For simplicity, I shall assume that one can either invest in Nikko STI ETF using POSB Invest-Saver or invest in Nikko STI ETF/SPDR STI ETF using SCB Priority Online Trading (no minimum commission). These would be the opportunity costs while we continue to invest in StashAway.

Apart from the absolute P&L, we should also look at the Reward-to-Risk Ratio where risk/volatility is taken into account. For more information, do read StashAway Clarifications - Reward-to-Risk Ratio. StashAway has the highest ratio of 1.25 which is significantly higher than the other 2 STI ETFs (< 0.4). Let me quote Freddy Lim (Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer of StashAway), "for every dollar of risk taken, StashAway P28 is producing 1.25 times the return".


This is updated till 25th May 2019 and is based on only 1 of our portfolio - KPO and CZM Cash - StashAway Risk Index 20%.

This month commentary: 
After just 1 month of all the simulated investments being green, the STI portfolios are losing money again. Going forward it will be even more interesting when the commissions/fees incurred by StashAway exceed that of POSB Invest-Saver. This will be a battle between cheaper/lesser fees and asset allocation/diversification...

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Looking at the time-weighted return (so huat - 8.88%), we can see that StashAway is "outperforming" the STI ETF (excluding fees). In addition, it has lower volatility and max drawdown.

Which is the best? Only time will tell :)

This is the link to our spreadsheet - KPO & CZM StashAway Portfolio VS STI ETF which I have also added to Our Portfolio page.

StashAway Referral Link for Our Readers
Here you go: KPO and CZM Referral Link

You might be interested in previous months update too:
StashAway - December 2018
StashAway - January 2019 - $16,051.10
StashAway - February 2019 - $17,397.81
StashAway - March 2019 - $18,780.96
StashAway - April 2019 - $19,702.85

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