Quarterly Portfolio Report – Q3 2020

Status Quo

As said, after the huge windfalls earlier this year, I kept what I saved in my checking account at least until I moved into our new apartment.

As a result, this quarter is basically a status quo for my portfolio with only the whims of the market moving it.

Let us dive in!

The market recovery continued but not on equal terms. Especially Kinepolis, a movie theater company, is still at a multi-year low. At least my (bio)tech stocks are doing great with NVDA taking the lead. I didn’t do any deposits so any change is all thanks to the market movements and some dividends:

• IUS3: 100 x 0.26 = 26.43 EUR
• NVDA: 15 x 0.14 = 2.06 EUR
• USDV: 65 x 0.28 = 18.29 EUR
• TOTAL = 46.77 EUR

I did shift my portfolio a bit by finally selling my CSKR shares! I made a little profit out of it but my main goal was to get rid of this useless tracker. Instead, I invested more in existing positions:

• CPXJ (Ishares CORE MSCI Pacific Ex-Japan): 1,180.00 EUR (10@118.00)
• CSPX (ISHARES CORE S&P 500): 4,210.64 EUR (15@280.71)
• CSX5 (ISHARES CORE EURO STOXX 50): 2,208.00 EUR (20@110.40)
• RBOT (ISHARES AUTOMATION&ROBOTIC-A): 864.71 EUR (110@7.86)
• XLVS (INVESCO US HEALTH CARE S&P): 1,250.70 EUR (3@416.90)

I also sold and bought Nvidia:

• SELL: 5@588.65 = 2943.25 EUR
• BUY: 2@432.8 = 865.62 EUR

All of these transactions gives me the following status:

• 56,905.14
  • Profit: 6,905.14 EUR or an increase of 13.8103%.
  • Increase: 4.33% over the previous quarter

The below table contains my stocks denominated in USD. Since the currency rate fluctuates daily, it impacts the total portfolio wealth counter. To keep it simple I will use the rate applicable at the time of writing every quarter (give or take a day). You can find the rate used at the top of this page.

All my stocks, so also my dollar ones, improved quite a bit. Especially NVDA. This is why I sold a bit at the peak and bought back at a lower price. In the meantime, it’s already up again 🙂 .
I don’t have a lot of Dollar stocks and I reduced it even more by selling CSKR (finally!). As a result of selling CSKR, I realized a minor profit of 66.46 EUR (after commission and conversion to euro).

My Beobank investment account made a decent increase but the average return is below average after more than 4 years.

I now have a positive return of 22.13%. This means my an annualized return of 5.12%. Not super low, but given the past years, anything but stellar.

As with my other portfolios, the pension fund fluctuated a bit but nothing major.

Important of this portfolio is that I stopped the automatic deposit. I will not add to this account and most likely will leave it alone as of now. I’d even dare to say that I will let it alone till my retirement.

I’m now at 7.38% profit.

I call them investments but they are more like speculative positions. This is with good reason. This quarter was full of ups and downs.
I took this as a calculated risk (especially the cryptocurrency one) expecting to reap the benefits in the longer term but for now it’s not going anywhere.

My crypto wallet climbed a bit higher thanks to free cryptos I received after answering some questions on Coinbase. Will they be worth something in the future? Who knows, but for now they are worth some euros. Thanks to these free cryptos I’m a bit less in red :).

Nothing new to report here. Just received a bit of interest on the money I have in my savings accounts. My emergency fund is larger than ever: 24,542.05 EUR; Large enough to cover unforeseen expenses to the apartment in the future.

I know you can’t combine the cash I already put into the apartment and the mortgage since one is an asset and the other one a liability so I made two tables. One has my (growing) asset, the apartment. The other table contains the liability, my mortgage, that I will pay off month by month.

For the moment nothing is changing here since I have started paying off my mortgage. I opted for a deferred payment so for now I only pay interest. This will change once we actually move or when I feel comfortable enough to carry both rent and my mortgage payment.