August has been a busy month. I spent quite some time cleaning up our portfolio and moving funds here and there with the intention to purchase more LUNA before the
Columbus-5 mainnet upgrade. One of the big moves was to close our StashAway cash portfolio which I blogged here -
Bye Bye StashAway! The others were exiting most/all of my farms in BSC, Polygon, Fantom and Avalanche and moving the money into Terra. We also had our first parent-teacher meeting over zoom. The teachers prepared 20+ slides on how Baby Ong is doing in the infant care which we thought was very cute and lots of effort.
Anyway, our portfolio reaches another new high! It increased by 14.42% to $1,179,579 - $84,491.51 of capital injection and $64,181.94 of capital gain. This includes $202,372 of leverage/debt (gearing/debt ~20.71%).
If you prefer to look at numbers, this is the raw data used to generate the above bar graph. These numbers are as of the last day of the month.
"Cash Flow" is the amount of money being injected/withdrawn from the portfolio (buying stocks = +ve cash flow while selling stocks and collecting dividends = -ve cash flow)
SOLD
- IREIT Global (500 units) @ $0.64
Decided to sell it for a small profit and clean up the portfolio. I bought it in the first place to conduct an experiment to see if there is any way to profit from the right issues by oversubscribing to it. Unfortunately, it is not really worth the effort.
I bought 100 shares which came with 45 rights, bought another 55 rights to make it 1 lot and oversubscribed the rights issues by another 9,900 shares. I was only allocated 300 more shares (~3% allocation).
BOUGHT
- Tencent (100 units) @ HK$429.00
- Ping An (500 units) @ HK$69.10
- China Construction Bank (2,000 units) @ HK$5.64
- Ascott Trust (5,000 units) @ $1.01
- DBS (300 units) @ $31.00
- OCBC (600 units) @ $12.37
- Mapletree NAC Trust (5,000 units) @ $1.01
- Mapletree Commercial Trust (5,500 units) @ $2.11
- Keppel REIT (20,000 units) @ $1.09
- Suntec REIT (15,000 units) @ $1.45
Most of the purchases were from using leverage. I used the money from closing our StashAway cash portfolio to repay our USD loan/leverage. As a result, I get access to more SGD which I then borrow to buy more REITs, pledge and repeat to get access to even more capital.
Anyway, the idea of using leverage is simple, borrow the money, buy a good/excellent REIT/stock, use the dividends to pay the interests, and keep the difference while ensuring that we will never get a margin call/trigger. Once again, leverage has its risk and is definitely not for everyone. We see it as our way of buying a second property without incurring any of those taxes (ABSD, rental income tax, etc.). You can take a look at this -
Leverage Performance 2020.
Given that it is a brand new year, I have adjusted my SRS contribution to $1,276 per month with the intention of maxing it by year-end. We have also decided to open another StashAway portfolio for Baby Ong. You can read about
Our Insurance and Investment Plan for Baby Ong.
Our Monthly DCA for June - $1,376
$100 Cash for Baby Ong - StashAway Risk Index 36%
$638 KPO's SRS - StashAway Risk Index 36%
$638 KPO's SRS - Endowus Loss Tolerance -60%
Dividends
The total dividends collected this month is $4,016.60. The breakdown is as follows:
Company PayDate Shares Total
Parkway Life REIT 31-Aug-21 5,000 $169.00
Wilmar International Ltd 27-Aug-21 1,000 $100.00
CDL Hospitality Trusts 27-Aug-21 4,800 $58.56
Ascott Residence Trust 27-Aug-21 25,913 $529.92
Suntec REIT 27-Aug-21 11,000 $231.99
IREIT Global 27-Aug-21 500 $11.45
OCBC Ltd 26-Aug-21 1,519 $379.75
DBS Group Holdings Ltd 26-Aug-21 1200 $396.00
SPDR Strait Times Index 25-Aug-21 26,000 $1,118.00
Frasers L&C Trust 24-Aug-21 24,297 $318.28
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd 18-Aug-21 4,000 $96.00
China Construction Bank Corp 5-Aug-21 10,000 HK$3,517.52 (~S$607.65)
Total dividends collected for 2021: $19,299.74
Average dividends per month for 2021: $2,412.46
StashAway
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| KPO |
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| CZM |
Capital: $22,954.00
Current: $25,618.83
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Endowus
Capital: $26,252.00
Current: $31,258.53
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Crypto
Tracking crypto investment becomes very painful when the number of coins increases as well as when I move across to different networks. Hence, to simplify the tracking, I will just be tracking the capital I put in vs the current value at the end of the month.
I exited FTM and BSC at a loss and Polygon and Avalanche at a profit. Huge profit from Avalanche from SG$500 to SG$3.6k. I bought PERI around 30 cents and sold at $2 when an incentive program was launched in Avalanche. If only I put SG$5k in like all the other networks... lol. Personally, I found transferring fund to Avalanche too troublesome where one still have to bridge between the X and C chain and that stopped me from transferring more money into the network.
On a side note, there are still some residue funds left in BSC (~US$600) and Polygon (~US$1k on Adamant and QiDao) which are "staked/locked". I have also sold off all my ADA (Cardano) and BTC to buy more LUNA. Cardano on paper/in theory looks good but once you dive into DeFi, you will start to wonder how it deserves the current valuation without any smart contract functionality. I sold BTC because I can probably 2 or 3x the money while LUNA has a lot more upside. In addition, with the huge profit from ADA, I bought some RUNE and kept the rest to margin trade which I will be buying and taking profit on LUNA.
Capital: SG$130,240.05 + US$3,125.22 (leverage) ~ SG$134,434.56
Current: SG$221,793.30 + US$3,125.22 (leverage) ~ SG$225,987.81
If you prefer a pie chart.
Crypto - Binance
Sold off all my ADA, ~US$4k went to LUNA, ~US$4k went to RUNE and US2k went into margin trading on LUNA and RUNE to take short term profit.
Crypto - CakeDeFi
Sitting on a 50% profit with the majority of my DFI in the freezer until Dec. The initial plan was to try this for a year but have decided to move the fund here to Terra/LUNA once the DFI are out of the freezer because I have more faith in that performing well. In my opinion, CakeDeFi is still a good starting place for someone that is planning to try out DeFi/getting high yields in crypto without worrying about any rug and exploit.
CakeDeFi - Deposits US$50 or more into your CakeDeFi account, you will earn US$30 in DFI and we will earn US$10 in DFI too.
Crypto DeFi - Terra
I blogged about it previously -
DeFi - Terra (LUNA & UST) & Anchor Protocol (20% Interest) and
DeFi - Terra Mirror Protocol Delta-Neutral Strategies. I have moved most of my money to Terra including CZM's initial investment because this is my high conviction crypto pick. lol. In my opinion, LUNA can easily go to 3 digits because it is based on the demand for UST which will only increase as time goes by where more projects are launched, UST going cross chains, and getting listed on more exchanges. We have about 3.5k LUNA with 57% of them staked, 20% as bLUNA, 16% in LUNA-bLUNA LP and 7% in slow burn. The target is to accumulate 4k LUNA before the next mainnet upgrade which fortunately has been
delayed. For a more detailed breakdown, you can refer to our Terra portfolio on Ape Board below.
My Terra Address:
Anyway, I have blogged about different ways to leverage crypto to build wealth for people with different risk appetites:
The safer approach using stablecoins
Risky approach but more hassle-free
Highest risk and you are on your own
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2020 Net Worth- Portfolio - August 2021 - $1,179,579
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