Portfolio Update for August 2022

This will be a relatively short post, just to update on the transactions for the month.

For the month of August, volatility continues to be the main theme in the world markets.  In the first half of the month, markets was submerged in a positive note.  The good news of lower-than-expected CPI data of 8.5% vs estimated 8.7% helped to propped up the US markets, and finally pushed my US Growth Portfolio back into the green!  However, doubts of the economy, lingering problems with the looming recession and persistently high inflation caused markets to crash in the second half of the month, especially after the speech by Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole.  As such, my US Portfolio is back into the red.

Closer to home, my SGX Dividend Portfolio is also under pressure.  As Jerome Powell said that “rates will rise until 'job is done'”, this causes the 10-year yield to rise above 3% again.  This creates pressure on the REITs, and that does not bode well for my portfolio.

For this month, I injected approximately SGD 6.7K capital buying the following shares:

SGX:    Capitaland Integrated Commercial Trust

             Frasers Logistic and Commercial Trust

             Mapletree Pan-Asia Commercial Trust

             Singapore Technologies Engineering

US:       Google-C

             JP Morgan

             Microsoft

             VOO ETF

In addition, I have also reinvested dividends on the following shares:

SGX:    Capitaland Integrated Commercial Trust

             Frasers Logistic and Commercial Trust

             Mapletree Pan-Asia Commercial Trust

             Singapore Technologies Engineering

Total Portfolio Value has dropped by approximately 1.33% to around SGD 444K, which basically means it's down quite a bit for the month despite capital injection.  Is this the return of the bear?  Or will the bull return soon?  I remain as clueless as ever, and the only thing I can do, and will continue to do, is to DCA into the market, and also reinvest the dividends back into the market to compound my portfolio.  Shall stay positive collecting my dividends next month!

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