↑ Accumulated $4,000 USD as part of my
annual saving goal for August.
↑ Dividends Rosneft 334 USD or 3% annually
↑ Dividends Gazprom 6,110 USD or 5.8%
annually
↑ Dividends Emerging markets sovereign bond
(IEMB ) – 101 USD or 4.6% annually.
↑ Vanguard emerging markets (VFEM) up by 297
USD
↑ Rosneft
is up by 693 USD
↑ iShares Core Dax is up by 484 USD
↑ Emerging markets sovereign bond index (IEMB ) up by 300 USD
↑ Emerging markets corporate bond index (EMCR) up by 480 USD
↑ EUR is up to USD by 2% or $4,263 USD for
my portfolio
↑ GBP is up to USD by 2% or $655 USD for my
portfolio
Grand
total additions: $ 16,721 USD
↓ Company shares are down by $1,073
↓ Precious metals are down by $249 USD
Grand total losses: $1,322 USD
Observations:
-
I just
noticed that 24 months and about $100K invested my networth is still the same
as back in August 2014. I am very lucky
to be young and having a good job. In any other case that would be a disastrous
outcome. This primarily due to sharp decline in Gazprom shares ~$55K USD and EUR exchange rate collapse to USD
~ $40 K USD. This is another reminder that unless you are rich, you need
to minimize the risks and save in the currency you are going to spend the
money. Admittedly I am sitting less in
cash than in 2014 and dividends are going to be ~$10K USD vs. $7.5 K USD (2014)
annually. My plan is to be 100% stocks
and bonds by end of the year.
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Dividends
this year so far are $7,780 USD which is close to my target of $8 K USD. I
expect it to be around $10 K USD by end of the year, even having 15% of nest
egg in cash.
-
- Energy companies are under a lot of pressure. Major players cannot afford their
dividends (even 2% ExxonMobil is paying). Some of the biggest companies — such
as BP and Shell — still need to sell off parts of their businesses, and perhaps
borrow a bit more, to pay dividends.
So the
big producers cannot maintain their dividends if oil prices do not go up. In
order to pay a dividend, the largest oil producers need oil at $63 just to
cover dividends and investment with cash flow. This is likely to be the end of
the remaining four majors keep paying the dividends. They became too inefficient and expensive.
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