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post Oct 14 2020, 12:47 PM

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QUOTE(GrumpyNooby @ Oct 14 2020, 09:59 AM)
Equity Market Drops After A 5-Month Rally

The equity market dropped for the first time after five straight months of positive returns. Politics and rising COVID-19 infections were the major causes for the weaker performance across all asset classes.

With the US presidential election getting closer, President Donald Trump threw more threats at China. In retaliation, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that China is looking to blacklist US companies. Elsewhere, the United Kingdom’s (UK) sudden plans to exit the European Union (EU) gained investors' attention as they were worried about the possibility of a hard Brexit after Boris Johnson threatened to stop the negotiation if the EU does not meet with his demands. The exit without any agreement with the EU would be a disaster for the UK, considering how dependent the country is on other economies.

The COVID-19 pandemic remained as the biggest threat to the global economy and financial market. In September, European countries such as Spain, France and the UK have all seen significant upticks in virus infections. The situation was exacerbated by a report that AstraZeneca and Oxford University have put vaccination trials on hold due to negative findings from the human trials.

There will be a lot of ups and downs in the market where some months can have negative returns. That's why MYTHEO’s algorithms are designed to ignore short-term changes in the asset prices but instead to continue monitoring and taking a long-term view on our investment. Our algorithms’ key focus is to optimize the portfolio by maximizing returns while taking the least risk possible. For these purposes, our algorithms run on two layers of automated processes - REBALANCING and RE-ALLOCATION.

Wish to read MYTHEO’s September performance? Click here.
https://mytheo.us20.list-manage.com/track/c...d8&e=a316a0d2ab
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you really work for MyTheo smile.gif
anyway will SAMY take the same approach ...mmmh hmm.gif hmm.gif hmm.gif
GrumpyNooby
post Oct 15 2020, 10:21 AM

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Does the US Presidential Election Affect Your Investment?

Conclusion
We advise investors to be more mindful in the next few weeks. It is expected that in the weeks ahead of the US Presidential election, the stock market will be more volatile than usual due to the constant change in the headlines. An election is a one-off event and the market tends to quickly normalise after the election regardless of who wins it. Therefore, investors who try to time the market might get caught at the wrong end of the market momentum - selling low and buying high.

More importantly, the issue of whether the new President is a Democrat or Republican matters the least to the financial market. While it is true that both parties have considerable differences in vital issues, the US economy is hugely complex and government policies are just one part of it.

All monetary policies are taken care of by the Federal Reserve, which are independent from the president’s office.

Our advice is to stay put and always invest consistently. Avoid betting on one side of the election result and stop acting based on news in the headlines. Stick to your strategy and long-term investment objective. Trump or Biden? Republican or Democrat? Whichever side that wins, they will do their best for the the US economy and the stability of the financial markets.

https://www.mytheo.my/mytheo/blog-app/71-do...your-investment
omegaoracle
post Oct 26 2020, 08:09 PM

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4 months invested in 2 portfolios in MyTheo, one thing really stands out - It's really difficult to lose money OR make money because its so diversified.
Even if your investment is RM100, you're invested in a long list of ETFs. Recently, I changed my portfolios to 100% growth and 100% income, hope it performs better

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post Oct 27 2020, 08:35 AM

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QUOTE(omegaoracle @ Oct 26 2020, 08:09 PM)
4 months invested in 2 portfolios in MyTheo, one thing really stands out - It's really difficult to lose money OR make money because its so diversified.
Even if your investment is RM100, you're invested in a long list of ETFs. Recently, I changed my portfolios to 100% growth and 100% income, hope it performs better
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Meaning you got 2 portfolios now?
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post Oct 27 2020, 10:08 AM

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QUOTE(GrumpyNooby @ Oct 27 2020, 08:35 AM)
Meaning you got 2 portfolios now?
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Yes. One is 100% growth and the other 100% income

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post Oct 28 2020, 09:17 AM

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QUOTE(omegaoracle @ Oct 27 2020, 10:08 AM)
Yes. One is 100% growth and the other 100% income
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Notice that there're 2 laggards in the Growth portfolio which is EWS and EWU.
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post Oct 28 2020, 04:10 PM

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QUOTE(GrumpyNooby @ Oct 28 2020, 09:17 AM)
Notice that there're 2 laggards in the Growth portfolio which is EWS and EWU.
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Yes, I see those 2 culprits
ISHARES MSCI SINGAPORE (EWS)
ISHARES MSCI UNITED KINGDOM (EWU)

Hopefully they do an optimization soon
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post Oct 28 2020, 04:33 PM

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QUOTE(omegaoracle @ Oct 28 2020, 04:10 PM)
Yes, I see those 2 culprits
ISHARES MSCI SINGAPORE (EWS)
ISHARES MSCI UNITED KINGDOM (EWU)

Hopefully they do an optimization soon
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If I'm not mistaken, these 2 ETFs have been there for months since early of this year.
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post Oct 30 2020, 05:29 PM

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Singapore Overtakes Thailand to Become Asia’s Worst Stock Market

Singapore stocks took a beating this week amid the twin uncertainties of the U.S. election and the worsening pandemic in the West, overtaking Thailand to become Asia’s worst equity market this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...nd=premium-asia

This could explain why EWS is the laggard in the portfolio. sweat.gif

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post Oct 30 2020, 07:27 PM

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QUOTE(GrumpyNooby @ Oct 30 2020, 05:29 PM)
Singapore Overtakes Thailand to Become Asia’s Worst Stock Market

Singapore stocks took a beating this week amid the twin uncertainties of the U.S. election and the worsening pandemic in the West, overtaking Thailand to become Asia’s worst equity market this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...nd=premium-asia

This could explain why EWS is the laggard in the portfolio. sweat.gif
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It's a good thing then diversification in the portfolio offset the risk. It's quite hard to lose or gain

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post Nov 3 2020, 08:55 AM

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ETFs 101

What?
Many have asked what an ETF is when realising that MYTHEO invests into many ETFs within the 3 functional portfolios. An ETF, or better known as an Exchange Traded Fund, is basically a collection of securities – such as stocks, bonds or commodities – that often tracks an underlying index. To break it down further, I personally always prefer to refer to an ETF as a basket of stocks or securities within a particular index and to illustrate this further simplistically, I will be using the S&P 500 Index to further explain. The S&P 500 is a market-capitalization-weighted index of the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies. The index is widely regarded as the best gauge of large-cap U.S. equities. Apple, Netflix and Disney are examples of stocks traded on the S&P 500 Index. The S&P 500 Index Fund is an ETF that tracks the movement of the S&P 500 Index. That means that by buying the S&P 500 Index Fund ETF, you would be buying the equivalent of the basket of stocks listed in the S&P 500 Index.

https://www.mytheo.my/mytheo/blog-app/72-etfs-101
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post Nov 6 2020, 09:41 AM

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This is the first time my Growth portfolio has return more than 2% in USD.
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QUOTE(GrumpyNooby @ Nov 6 2020, 09:41 AM)
This is the first time my Growth portfolio has return more than 2% in USD.
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lol i know exactly the feeling
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post Nov 7 2020, 04:41 PM

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QUOTE(omegaoracle @ Oct 27 2020, 10:08 AM)
Yes. One is 100% growth and the other 100% income
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i also use this strategy now... just mine are 100% growth and 100% inflation... easier to track performance...

for income category, i can just buy local bond fund/ASNB fix price fund/SSPN, not worth to spend 1% fee per year on mytheo for income fund...

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post Nov 7 2020, 08:22 PM

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QUOTE(memorylane @ Nov 7 2020, 04:41 PM)
i also use this strategy now... just mine are 100% growth and 100% inflation... easier to track performance... 

for income category, i can just buy local bond fund/ASNB fix price fund/SSPN, not worth to spend 1% fee per year on mytheo for income fund...
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How's your return so far?
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post Nov 9 2020, 08:38 PM

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growth about 6% , since August 2020... inflation just started, cant measure yet...
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post Nov 10 2020, 12:38 PM

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QUOTE(omegaoracle @ Oct 26 2020, 08:09 PM)
4 months invested in 2 portfolios in MyTheo, one thing really stands out - It's really difficult to lose money OR make money because its so diversified.
Even if your investment is RM100, you're invested in a long list of ETFs. Recently, I changed my portfolios to 100% growth and 100% income, hope it performs better
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I agree, just seems like a complete waste of time.

I'll probably try what you're doing now, if not much impact, will swap it over to a different roboadviser.
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post Nov 10 2020, 12:40 PM

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QUOTE(blackchides @ Nov 10 2020, 12:38 PM)
I agree, just seems like a complete waste of time.

I'll probably try what you're doing now, if not much impact, will swap it over to a different roboadviser.
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So you switched out to other roboadviser?
Which one you switched to?
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post Nov 10 2020, 12:45 PM

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QUOTE(GrumpyNooby @ Nov 10 2020, 12:40 PM)
So you switched out to other roboadviser?
Which one you switched to?
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Stashaway, which is more US equities-heavy. Havent looked into Wahed yet.
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post Nov 10 2020, 01:33 PM

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QUOTE(blackchides @ Nov 10 2020, 12:38 PM)
I agree, just seems like a complete waste of time.

I'll probably try what you're doing now, if not much impact, will swap it over to a different roboadviser.
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I already left mytheo in January.

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