Quarterly Portfolio Report – Q4 2020

Here we are, at yet another year-end. This is the third time I close my portfolio; and how! What a ride. Corona had a huge impact on me personally but also on my financial situation and in a good way even!

To the moon!

Unlike in the 3^rd quarter, this fourth and final quarter of 2020 was crazy. First and foremost because of the American elections. With Biden’s win, things are going to stay interesting in 2021.

Second, because the stock market was like the gift that kept on giving I bought extra shares and stocks to ride the bullish waves using margin.
From 0 EUR borrowed capital in September I systematically increased it to 12,000 EUR by the end of December. However, since it’s clear as day that the construction of my apartment won’t be delivered before the end of 2021, I intend to top up my account with an extra 15,000 EUR somewhere this month.

I also sold a stock: Ubisoft (Ticker: UBI1). The reason for my Ubisoft purchase was to ride the waves of online gaming but instead, it remained flat (unlike EA for example). Having bought this stock a little over a year ago and to reduce opportunity cost, I decided to cut my losses. Instead of Ubisoft, I decided to get into Corsair Gaming (Ticker: CRSR).

Talking about losers, Kinepolis (Ticker: KIN) is another one I should cut out, but because of its excellent track-record before corona, I’m hesitant. I actually bought more on the initial dip in March 2020. 2021 is shaping up to be a critical year for the Kinepolis group. With multiple blockbusters going straight to streaming at worst or streaming and released in cinema at best, it remains to be seen if Kinepolis can keep growing like they did pre-corona.

Another crazy change was my Cryptocurrency investments. From deep red in March 2020, I steadily climbed out of the red and into the green with a doubling of my investment just recently.

My other investments, such as my portfolio with Beobank, also performed excellently but not nearly as stellar as the others.

You could already see how much the tally is, but putting it in my table makes the gains of the last quarter really stand out.

The market recovery continued all the way till the end of 2020 but not on equal terms. Kinepolis (Ticker: KIN), a Belgian movie theater company, is still at the lower end of the spectrum.

Also, my more recent purchases such as Corsair Gaming and the Chinese Tencent are in red. Tencent, together with Alibaba are my plays in the Chinese market that I hope to play out in full in the coming year(s).

In terms of profits, all my stocks made an excellent performance. My top contributors for 2020 are:

Dividing it according to financial instruments and asset class looks as followed:

Talking about gains, my dividend payout for 2020 was lower than expected, I only received 328.19 EUR. You can see the distribution across 2020 in the below graph:

And the rest? Nothing but rising stock prices. Well, besides Alibaba.

Combining my personal investment portfolio gives me the following status:

• 61,735.65 EUR
  
  • Profit: 11,735.65 EUR or an increase of 23.4713%.
  • Increase: 8.489% over the previous quarter (coming from 56,905.14 EUR)
  • Negative cash balance of -12,863.44 EUR

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.

My Beobank investment account made an amazing recovery which makes the return half-decent after more than 5 years.

I now have a positive return of 34.75% or an annualized return of 5.76%. 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 7.468% 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.

Wow! Just wow. In this last quarter, my Coinbase account skyrocketed to new highs I have never seen before.

I opened this account in March 2018 just after the peak, and it took till Q4 to climb out of this deep valley. I reached my lowest point back in March 2020 when I hit 92.70 EUR. In less than 10 months my cryptocurrencies shoot to 980.81 EUR which is an increase of 958.047%!

Unfortunately, it’s impossible to get the history of all my cryptos on 31/12/2020 so I will take the most recent numbers (09/01/2021).

The end of the year is the time I receive my interest. I just received a bit of interest on the money I have in my savings accounts. My emergency fund is larger than ever: 24545.55 EUR or an increase of 0.014% compared to last quarter.

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.
Finally, a change will take place. As of April 2021, I will start paying off this mortgage.