Uh oh, forget it. I don't even get €3 credited 😀

After Alphapet and HSBC, it's now BlackRock's turn! Lockheed will follow at the end of June! June is one of the best dividend months for me! 👍

As a "stonemason" you have to be patient and work hard every day, every week, every month, every year and even decades to achieve financial freedom and finally be able to lay down the employee's stone.😁

So, after the purchase last week, I took the opportunity to buy more!

The stock summer sale is open 🌴😉

The reinsurance company Munich Re $MUV2 (+1,31 %) is withdrawing from several international climate initiatives at the same time, following the example of $BLK (+0,36 %) which also announced a comprehensive withdrawal from climate policy just last week.

While the company used to be one of the loudest advocates of climate policy and net zero targets, it is now justifying its withdrawal with increasing legal uncertainty and and inconsistent regulatory requirements in various countries. CEO Joachim Wenning also criticizes the fact that many climate reporting obligations have hardly contributed to reducing emissions. However, he affirms that Munich Re will continue to work behind the scenes to protect the climate.

Cynical observers, however, see the sudden change of course as a tactic. In recent years, Munich Re had significantly increased its risk premiums with reference to the potential threat posed by climate change, which also sustainably improved the company's earnings situation. Now that political support for ESG projects in particular is dwindling, the company no longer wants to be publicly associated with the controversial content of ESG initiatives or continue to take responsibility for them.

My opinion: In my view, Munich Re is demonstrating a very skillful and pragmatic approach to lobbying. Instead of bluntly clinging to idealism and decisions from the past, the Board of Management reacts appropriately to the situation and tries to create added value for investors within the framework of the shareholder approach. This increases my trust in the Board of Management and has prompted me to start a savings plan on Munich Re in my secondary portfolio.

I think you can't go wrong with BlackRock 😉 Good dividends and possibly strong returns!

Good morning, dear community!

Yesterday, savings plans were executed again at TR. At 16:15 I received a message that my Broadcom $AVGO (+1,52 %) savings plan was not executed, with the addition "Trading not allowed"

When I looked at my securities account in the evening, I noticed that Blackrock $BLK (+0,36 %) had been booked into the securities account & on top of that, a weekly savings plan on the same company was suddenly running. I don't have Blackrock on my watchlist & never had it in my portfolio before.

WTF !?? Does anyone have similar experiences?

TL;DR like to roast my deposit, appreciate all opinions!

I always find the many posts here and reading various biographies very interesting, so I've wanted to say a few words for a while now.

Tried early, but started late

I am now 32 and unfortunately started investing seriously far too late, studied far too long, and with the larger salaries finally built up as much as possible and tried to catch up as quickly as possible. "Unfortunately" means for the most part the past calendar year, which is why I put a large part of my money into shares at already high prices and then had very little cash left in the crash to add to it. Fully invested, in other words. During the crash, I mainly reallocated and continued to fully invest what was left over from my monthly salaries.

Yet back in 2011, at the age of 18, I had a share called Facebook and a Starbucks share in my portfolio without much of a clue. I just wanted to know what my mother was actually doing with her shares and how it worked, and with FB and Starbucks I simply chose two companies that "everyone" uses/needs anyway. The idea wasn't that stupid, it worked, and after a short time I was happy about the small profit in absolute terms, sold the shares at DiBa despite the high fees at the time and simply forgot about shares for years - wealth accumulation, a word that wasn't in my vocabulary, the money I had was simply turned upside down as a young adult. Well, young me, just leave the shares lying around or, even better, take a closer look at them and carry on, it "might" have been worth it...

Of priorities and wrong horses

The years went by without any shares, but with lots of fast food and partying, but at least things have changed. At some point, I started to think about the future and wealth accumulation, first taking an interest in interest rates, and then the logical next step was dividends and shares. Unfortunately, it started rather haphazardly. As a student, I started investing small amounts, and of course betting on the wrong horses. Speculative lithium shares were particularly bad in this phase, unfortunately these were large sums even by my standards, from my grandfather's estate. That was bad. However, crypto was a very good horse, more precisely $BTC (+1,36 %) and $ETH (+3,13 %) which (as a computer scientist) I became interested in early on and exited several times with high profits, also thanks to domestic mining. It's just stupid that back then, in the last decade, I would never have imagined how cryptos would develop. If I had, I would have simply left it all, or at least part of it. You learn and you're always smarter afterwards anyway.

Fully invested - excessive, unhealthy, or simply good housekeeping?

So now I'm 32 - and proud of a portfolio that I think I've built up to a good size in a relatively short time. Which has given me other ideas for some time now. I'm still a long way from reaching my goal, but I have to get back on the "invest 100%" path, which has been completely contrary to my past for a long time now, and strangely enough, I'm finding it difficult to do so - something to reflect on. There are too many (supposed?) opportunities every day. So I simply could not $UNH (+0,38 %) after a long period of observation yesterday and of course the savings plans had to run today too. I think I've always been good at budgeting, or let's put it this way, at least good at getting by with the money available to me in a perfectly timed way, but "indulging", not just in company shares, may become a little more prominent again. I don't go without noticeably in everyday life, I need very little, which I don't think is a bad quality to begin with. But I have changed a lot in the area of "consumption" compared to the past. I think it would be good to find a healthy balance. In my opinion, just as you don't just live to work, but work to live, the same applies to saving/investing. I actually read a post here on gq today that described exactly that and I could relate to it very well. So, reflection and taking your foot off the gas is allowed - no, it's a must! I am familiar with frugalists, but I never wanted to be one. I'd be interested to know if anyone else here feels the same way, or did?

Wrong decisions, mistakes... and (hopefully) the right conclusions

Back to the topic! (Not only) on the way to today's portfolio I have made many wrong decisions, as already mentioned, so I thought that a well-kept portfolio roast could do me some good. Other, new opinions and assessments can't be bad!

In particular, in the past I have often missed the opportunity to simply let profits run their course and instead dragged losses around with me for too long (which brings us back to lithium). A thought that I recently had again when I was thinking about when it would make sense to $HIMS (+5,72 %) possibly realize, as an example. $PLTR (+0,87 %) and $NVDA (+1,12 %) are two examples that, like so many others, I naturally had on my radar, but they always seemed too expensive, the setback never came and I really missed the big rallies as a result. At the same time, I also get caught out by FOMO from time to time. So in both good and bad phases, I try not to just see red or green, fear or hope, but simply to evaluate what actually makes sense "from now on". Sometimes you realize a loss in order to try your luck elsewhere, sometimes you should let profits run, sometimes take them, sometimes endure the dip, sometimes be courageous and sometimes defensive. Easier said than done. I find it very nice and helpful to exchange ideas on this platform and how open and "yet" respectful it generally is. Of course, I will most likely never reach some portfolio sizes, but you can always learn something about how some people manage their portfolios, regardless of the absolute figures. You will always make mistakes, but at least you should deal with them correctly and draw the best possible conclusions.

Portfolio restructuring, planned investments / savings plans

And today? After some evaluation, research, regrouping and restructuring, I now have fewer, but still quite a few positions in different sectors, most of which are already of a decent and roughly balanced size. My medium-term plan is now to build up all positions to a certain target size. This is why I am currently running savings plans:

$MPWR (+0,68 %)

$AVGO (+1,52 %)

$ISRG (+0,63 %)

$DXCM (+0,21 %)

$DHR (+0,61 %)

$ALV (+1,04 %)

$9988 (+1,3 %)

$BRK.B (+0,28 %)

$APH (-0,42 %)

$MELI (+0,9 %)

$BLK (+0,36 %)

$RSG (+1,56 %)

$DGE (+1,85 %)

$VKTX (+0,72 %)

ETF/ETC:

$UBU7 (+0,71 %)

$EWG2 (+0 %)

Partly with small weekly amounts, until enough cash is available to fill the target position evenly. With $AVGO (+1,52 %) for example, there is not much left. Also $BRK.B (+0,28 %) / $APH (-0,42 %) and others are already approaching the target. In some cases with somewhat larger sums for still small but prioritized positions, until opportunities and/or resources for individual purchases arise, such as the $ALV (+1,04 %) and $RSG (+1,56 %) should be mentioned here, as well as $DGE (+1,85 %) as a turnaround candidate.

Once the aforementioned positions are full, I would like to turn my attention to the more defensive candidates that are already in the portfolio but which I am currently prioritizing - $MCD (+0,2 %) / $KO (-0,02 %) / $CCEP (+0,62 %) / $ULVR (+1,4 %) and others - and finally increase the ETF and gold share in the long term.

$VKTX (+0,72 %) is a bit of a gamble, as I have actually said goodbye to pharma - $ABBV (+0,06 %) / $NOVO B (+1,1 %) / $LLY (+0,59 %) and $MRK (+0,51 %) were still part of the inventory until recently. Instead, I decided to go with $DXCM (+0,21 %) / $ISRG (+0,63 %) / $DHR (+0,61 %) on medical technology.

$BTC (+1,36 %) remains a fixed value in the portfolio, while I $ETH (+3,13 %) (incorrectly entered due to staking - around 0.4 shares or €1000) and $XRP (+4,93 %) would/will sell at corresponding prices.

I still lack around €15,000 in individual stocks at current prices to bring all positions to the current desired/dream target. This will take some time, but is foreseeable. And then I would be really quite proud and happy "as things stand now"! In any case, I now feel very comfortable on the path I have chosen and, as I said, I have to stop myself from forgetting that not all money has to be invested all the time.

Savings rate

To put this into figures, I have averaged a savings rate of around €1500 over the last 24 months, with an average of €100 a month in dividends. 1400€ investment, that's about 82% of my monthly budget after deducting all "unavoidable" fixed costs including fuel and household, but not including consumption such as clothes, going out or vacations. Exaggerated, I can't say otherwise myself. But at least I have a good reason to step on the gas and get the compound interest going.

So what is all this for?

In the long term, my girlfriend and I dream of owning a property somewhere on the Croatian Adriatic, her homeland, and where I was able to spend many wonderful weeks with my parents every year as a child. A beautiful region that I consider an important part of my life, with many great moments and memories that may become even more. I hope to get closer to this goal "quickly" with the depot. The language is already halfway there! :)

In the long term, this would probably involve a little reallocation into value dividend payers, which should help with repayment. However, I would also like to lay the foundations for later distributions today, without neglecting growth. There is probably no perfect mix for this, but you are welcome to rate mine.

So, unfortunately I was once again unable to be brief. Thank you for reading, whoever has made it this far, and for your comments! I'm very excited and wish you all a great weekend.

Hello everyone,

With today's high, I have cracked my first target of €50,000 for the first time.

The next target is of course €100,000, hopefully by the end of 2026/beginning of 2027.

I would therefore like to present my portfolio to you and hope that you will have any suggestions for improvement and constructive ideas.

Basically, the focus is on buy and hold / growth. But a dividend is also nice.

I started thinking more intensively about the whole topic around the beginning/middle of 2023, at the age of 29. The aim is to possibly reach the millions after all, or in any case to have a more comfortable retirement later on.

Before that, it was more about trying things out or the "safe" investment that you get from your parents. In the meantime, we saved in stories such as DWS funds. I still have one of these "corpses", the DWS Vermögens... $HJUF (+0,72 %) .

However, this is also to be restructured in the near future.

I am currently working on increasing my ETF positions to get to a ratio of 50%/50%. I have not been so successful with this recently, as I have increased many individual stocks due to the low.

Actually, the iShares Core S&P 500 $CSPX (+0,65 %) and FTSE All-World $VWCE (+0,69 %) are in the foreground.

Yes, I am also saving here at the same time $VWRL (+0,83 %) for a few more dividends a year. You are welcome to give your opinion on whether this makes sense or whether you should only take one of the two.

My current monthly ETF savings plans at a glance,

Core S&P 500 $CSPX (+0,65 %) - 150€

All-World $VWCE (+0,69 %) - 70€

All-World $VWRL (+0,83 %) - 70€

MSCI World $IWDA (+0,72 %) - 40€

S&P 500 Information Tech $IUIT (+1,05 %) - 30€

All-World High Divid. $VHYL (+0,89 %) - 30€

VanEck Sustainable World Equal $TSWE (+1,06 %) - 30€

VanEck Developed $TDIV (+0,77 %) - 15€

iShare DJ Global Titan 50 $EXI2 (+0,84 %) - 15€

Here, too, a merger would be conceivable and also make sense.

For example, since I hold the DJ Global Titan 50 $EXI2 (+0,84 %) and the MSCI World $IWDA (+0,72 %) with a small amount for ages, I have not yet been able to part with them.

I still save the following shares weekly at €7 each on the side,

$BRK.B (+0,28 %)

$BLK (+0,36 %)

$PG (+0,04 %)

$PEP (+0,13 %)

$KO (-0,02 %)

In addition to the above, I buy individual shares, ETFs or top up positions worth a further €500, depending on prices.

On average, my monthly savings rate is therefore around €1,000-1,500.

As already mentioned, I would like to ask the community for their opinion, any suggestions for improvement and constructive ideas.

Thank you very much, best regards and happy trading days.