Hello lovelies,

first of all: thank you very much for sharing your TR-Ref.links under my post.

I would of course like to share with you how:

How the share gift turned out for me as the referrer and the referrer.

What I will now use the TR Depot for and how it will continue (I had already briefly spoiled that it will be rather exotic there, take it literally😂).

So let's get started:

I received a whopping €30 as a gift in $DIS (-1,35 %) which I think is very reasonable for the little effort involved and the manageable minimum deposit. The referrer drawn from the comments @ZPark91 unfortunately "only" landed €10 in $MC (-2,76 %) but a gift is a gift, after all.

I probably won't use the TR Depot very actively, but since I had to make 3 purchases anyway, I simply picked out the most spaced-out stocks that my watchlists had to offer and where you can also add a savings plan with TR. Since I was almost fully invested, the amounts at the start were manageable, but savings plans also came in directly from 02.01.26.

I ended up buying €50 each for

$GRAB (-3,21 %)

$MNTN (+1,98 %)

$AAF (+0,93 %)

Since $GRAB (-3,21 %) has been on my watchlist for some time anyway, I have opened a small position here and am now expanding it via a savings plan.

The $MNTN (+1,98 %) has been added solely due to the investment in Space X. Let's see what happens if there is an IPO.🤷🏼‍♂️

On $AAF (+0,93 %) I became aware of it through dear @Epi (what, how does that work? 🤔😂). Under a post by @HenningtonGlobal on the subject of dollar devaluation, he raised the topic of EM and the $AFK (-1,25 %) and $ILF (-0,87 %) linked. I then did a search for myself $AFK (-1,25 %) I filtered for exciting companies that suited me and to be honest $AAF (+0,93 %) was almost the only one where I found the chart appealing.🤷🏼‍♂️

What happens next?

The 3 positions are now running monthly in the savings plan until further notice. I'll take a closer look at TR, as long as the fee structure there remains the same, the 3 stocks, plus my donated $DIS (-1,35 %) fragments may remain there. For the time being, I will probably not make any major purchases of the stocks that are now there, as the spreads are already very wide in some cases, despite the fact that the domestic stock exchanges are open.

However, I will probably use the share gift campaign to give my wife a portfolio there, so we'll see what other gifts are added.

Today there will be a short post about my last BOTH "real" purchases this year, so stay tuned.😉

@schlimmschlimm
@Olli68

The Bloomberg news agency has learned from insiders that SpaceX wants to raise 30 billion dollars in an IPO next year. The company is to be valued at 1.5 trillion dollars and would then be one of the world's most valuable listed companies.

Is there a chance to approach SpaceX as a private investor? Yes, there is. WirtschaftsWoche reports on the ways - or rather detours - in which private investors can already get involved.

A number of British investment trusts have a large SpaceX portfolio. Investment trusts are closed-end funds whose shares are traded like shares on the stock exchange. This is how you can get a little closer to a SpaceX investment.

One option is offered by asset manager Baillie Gifford from Scotland. The fund company is known for long-term investments in high-growth companies and was one of the first major investors in Tesla $TSLA (-0,53 %). In 2013, the Scots joined Elon Musk's company and have since earned hundreds of millions of dollars for their investors.

Now it looks like the Scots want to repeat their success with one of Elon Musk's companies. Baillie Gifford was able to secure SpaceX shares for some of her investment trusts. This is probably also due to the fact that the asset manager is said to still have very good relations with Elon Musk.

One of these funds is the long-established Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust $SMT (-0,91 %) The current factsheet is dated November 30, 2025, according to which the fund holds a total of 8.2 percent of its assets in SpaceX. This makes the space company the largest position. It also owns TSMC, Mercado Libre and Amazon are among the fund's top positions.

With Edinburgh Worldwide $EWI (+2,71 %) and the Schiehallion Fund $MNTN (+1,98 %)

there are other trusts that are also heavily invested. The remarkable thing is the discount to the intrinsic value. The three trusts are currently trading at a discount of between three and 26 percent. The funds are therefore noticeably cheaper on the stock market than their actual assets are worth.

Source text (excerpt) & picture: "Welt", 11.12.25