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How Does Our Portfolio Look Like?

February 22nd, 2010

Log Book

So far, we’ve been talking about our stock picks (see also here), but we never disclosed our portfolio. Now, we’re going to disclose our real portfolio.

First of all, we use a couple of different strategies in our portfolio. For example, we use dollar-cost averaging in our retirement account. We use a combination of fundamental and technical analysis in our short-term trading account. Having said that, we try to keep our portfolio as simple as possible.

How does our portfolio look like?

  • 15% US index
  • 15% Canadian index
  • 15% Emerging market index
  • 30% fixed-income, which includes government bonds, corporate bonds and preferred shares.
  • 5% REIT
  • 20% speculative stocks, long-term options and currency speculation

As we mentioned in our previous posting, we use mostly ETF and index mutual funds (we always prefer “no-load” mutual funds). We’ll discuss about which ETF/mutual funds issuers that we use in future posting.

(Picture is from stock.xchng.)

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