If you are already adding individual stocks, I would recommend adding Japanese/Asian stocks, be it itochu, Mitsubishi Corp. or DBS group, all of which also pay dividends.
Would take away Google or similar as IT is already very heavily weighted in the ETFs (USA Heavy too)

Otherwise I personally think the allocation is good
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@__FunFun__ He does have an EM ETF. I find adding Asian stocks very individual: American stocks are generally more reliable, but you would be more diversified with more Asian stocks. It depends on what is more important to you personally.

I would keep Google, top company. Personally, however, I'm missing the consumer goods and healthcare sectors in the portfolio. But maybe it's precisely the bet that tech will continue to outperform and therefore continue to overweight this through individual stocks?
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@__FunFun__ Thanks for your feedback. I will think about it.
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Do you usually recommend 1-2 stocks per sector?
@Tojasoku Of course Google was and is currently a top performer, but in my opinion IT is already "overweighted" (in terms of execution as the current weighting of the etfs is justified - the usa market must be weighted more).
But adding more IT... is not easy but I would rather diversify.

Google was just an example, could also be NVIDIA or something like that
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@Jim247 Personally, I don't necessarily base this on sectors, and if I do, then certainly not on *quantity* of shares but on %

I buy individual stocks where I either want to overweight it myself (India - reliance industries) I think it is overperforming and/or I want more exposure there (itochi, dbs group etc) and then I choose individual stocks that convince me if there are 2 I buy 2 (e.g. 2 banks in Indonesia I forgot the name xD) and if it is only one then only one (reliance industries)
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