Hi everyone,

I’m 28 and planning to invest €80,000 with a long-term, offensive strategy. I’m aiming for broad global diversification, focused on both value and growth. I’m totally fine having 60–70% of my portfolio allocated to the U.S. and with exposure to emerging markets as well.

Here’s a rough outline of the allocation I have in mind:

30–40%
Nasdaq 100
$EQQQ (+1.7%)
$XNAS (+1.7%)
$CSNDX (+1.71%)

15–25%
S&P 500
$VUAG (+1.51%)
$CSPX (+1.53%)
$SPYL (+1.53%)

10%
World ex US
$WEXU (+0.18%)
$IE000R4ZNTN3 (+1.7%)
$EXUS (+0.54%)

10%
Small Cap US Value
$ZPRV (+1.97%)

5% Small Cap World $WSML (+1.07%)
$ZPRS (+1.45%)

5% Emerging Markets (EM)
$EIMI (+0.78%)
$XMME (+0.64%)

5%
EM Small Cap
$SPYX (+1.62%)

5–10%
India UCITS ETF
$FLXI (+1.58%)
$QDV5 (+1.79%)

Additionally (5-10%), I’m considering adding one or two of the following ETFs – would love your thoughts on which one(s) you’d choose and why (or not):

• $SMH (+0.75%) | VanEck Semiconductor UCITS ETF
• $RBOT (+0.89%) | iShares Automation & Robotics UCITS ETF
• $AIQG (+1.74%) | Global X Artificial Intelligence UCITS ETF USD Accumulating
• $XDWT (+1.22%) | Xtrackers MSCI World Information Technology UCITS ETF

Finally, I’m thinking of picking around 10 individual stocks as a satellite component. Any suggestions? 🚀

Curious to hear your feedback:

• What do you think of this ETF setup overall?

• Would you add or remove anything?

• Would you tweak the allocation? If yes, how and why?

I prefer accumulating ETFs only, and I plan to add €1,000–1,500 every month going forward.

Your thoughts are much appreciated! 🙏🏼😀

US stock market capitalization accounts now for 74% of the MSCI World Index. New ATH.

Since the end of the 2008 Financial Crisis, this percentage has increased by ~25 points. By comparison, Europe and Japan’s share have dropped by ~15 and ~5 percentage points, respectively.

As a result, the US' share of global market cap is now 4 times larger than Europe and Japan combined.

This comes as the S&P 500 has rallied 450% over the last 15 years compared to a 70% and 310% gain of the Euro Stoxx 50 and Nikkei 225.

Source: The Kobeissi Letter, SG Cross Asset Research, Factset

$IWDA (+1.34%)
$CSPX (+1.53%)
$VDEV (+1.58%)
$VUSA (+1.54%)
$SPPW (+1.45%)
$SPYL (+1.53%)
$HMWO (+1.46%)
$VJPN (+0.79%)
$LCUJ (+0.85%)
$DBXJ (+0.86%)

70k goal achieved 🚀

Next year the goal is to achieve 100k.

Assuming that I need 30k in savings, I'll have to save 2500€ per month, for 12 months.

That will only be possible due to a mix of factors:

• 30% ruling tax benefit ( thank you NL 🇳🇱 )
• living with flatmates
• new higher paying job

My tactics for next year are

• 2000€ in $SPYL (+1.53%)
• 500€ in $NU (+1.04%)

$SPYL (+1.53%) there isn’t much to say. I believe in the American economy, so my chips will be there.

$NU (+1.04%) is a risky bet and I will DCA a bit more.

on a side note, I am curious about a future Klarna IPO 🇸🇪

we go by going 🚀 🚀🚀

Investing at the worst times

These are the annualized returns for an investor who bought the day before Covid-19, or just before the Great Financial Crisis in 2007, or at the peak of the Dot Com bubble - not ideal, but not disastrous in hindsight. 

The miracle of equities is that, despite your rotten luck, you still end up okay if you allow enough time to pass.

$VUAG (+1.51%)
$CSPX (+1.53%)
$VOO (+1.58%)
$SPYL (+1.53%)

Hello community!

I'm quite new to the investments world, but I've studied a bit and I'd like to have an additional opinion about how to invest my money.

I have 20k euros to invest, and I plan to add 400 euros every month.

I plan to let this money grow for at least 20 years or even more.

I have decided to invest in I decided to invest in an All-World ETF and my choice fell on $VWCE (+1.27%) (I have also considered the $FWRG (+1.35%) which has lower TER, but also lower fund volume and higher spread).

But I'd like to add one or more (not to much) ETFs to boost up a little bit the performance and I was thinking about some ETFs on the Nasdaq100 or the S&P 500 indexes (like $SPYL (+1.53%)
$SPXD (+1.53%)
$VUAG (+1.51%)
$VUSA (+1.54%)
$EQQQ (+1.7%)
$UST (+1.71%) ).

What do you think about this idea? I have read that there is an overlap problem doing this but I'd like to have more opinions about it.

I think also that would be nice to have some money coming from dividends for everyday use, but I haven't searched nothing and it's not essential for me.

Have you got any suggestions?

Thank you in advance