Hello everyone and thanks again if you have any constructive feedback:

I have recently been thinking about my strategy (monthly +/- CHF 500.- in individual shares) in order to expand it with CHF 100.- each in $CHDVD
$VWCE (+0,1%)
$VHYG (-0,18%) and $ZGLD . At the end of the year, I would then rebalance each time in order to buy more shares in the ETFs with my savings and/or 13th month's salary. I am aware that I have major overlaps with the ETFs and that I am pursuing specific goals. But that is not the core of my question

What do you think about investing 50% in individual shares, 40% in ETFs and gold, saving 10% and rebalancing at the end of the year?

Hello getquin community,

I am 22 years old, a dual student in the tax sector, and otherwise a rather quiet reader on getquin. At this point Thanks to all who take the trouble to publish posts here, some of which are ready for a doctoral thesis. You are a real enrichment!

I would like to introduce you to my depot today.

My goal is long-term wealth accumulation through solid individual stocks and an ETF core.

The beginning:

I started when I was 18 with little money and made the typical mistakes:

• no own research
• Little to no knowledge on the subject
• Purchases only on the recommendation of others or because I liked their products

This led to me making losses, which made me stop again (over 1 year)

The turnaround:

Some time later, I started reading up on the subject and acquiring knowledge. After I was confident that I now had more knowledge, I slowly started investing again and creating my own analyses. In the meantime, I have recovered my initial losses and I think I am on the right track. Here is my current status/strategy:

Horizon: 10 + years (buy & hold)

Strategy: Core-Satellite

• Core (target 40 %)FTSE All-World ACC $VWCE (+0,1%) (currently more like 80/20, will be expanded)
• Satellite (target 60 %)Individual stocks

Target: Combination of return and stability

My selection of individual stocks:

At this point: There are a few stocks, but the portfolio is no longer that small, currently approaching 20k.

• Siemens $SIE (+0,12%) 11,7 %

Strong industrial base, automation & digitalization, nice diversification, future-oriented

• Amazon $AMZN (+1,11%) 11,6 %

E-commerce & cloud growth driver, in my opinion currently my top pick of the Mag 7 in terms of valuation.

• Apple $AAPL (+0,47%) 10,9 %

Classic

• Alphabet (A) $GOOGL (-0,02%) 10,7 %

AI potential & strong margins

• Kawasaki Heavy Industries $7012 (+1,67%) 10,5 %

Japanese industrial stock, robotics, Asia diversification

• ASML $ASML (+0,21%) 8,4 %

Key position in semiconductor production

• Novo Nordisk (B) $NOVO B (-0,59%) 7,9 %

Healthcare growth through Wegovy/Ozempic, in my opinion still strong potential in the future

• Fortinet $FTNT (-0,12%) 7,8 %

Cybersecurity play with solid growth

• UnitedHealth Group $UNH (+0%) 7,7 %

Stable healthcare giant, steady cash flow, figures were really strong today

• Allianz $ALV (+0,3%) 7,0 %

Value + dividend, defensive component

• Munich Re $MUV2 (-0,2%) 5,7 %

Stability & high dividends

With a regional breakdown of the individual shares of:

• 48% North America
• 40% Europe
• 10% Japan

Regional breakdown with ETF with a weighting of 20%:

• North America: 51%
• Europe: 36%
• Japan: 10%
• Rest: 3%

Regional breakdown with ETF at the target weighting of 40%:

• North America: 53%
• Europe: 32 %
• Japan: 9%
• Rest: 6%

Sector breakdown of individual shares:

• Information technology: 38.0 %
• Industry: 21.7 %
• Healthcare: 16.3 %
• Financial services: 10.9
• Consumer staples: 10.9

Sector breakdown with ETF at 20% weighting:

• Information technology: 34.8
• Industry: 19.6
• Healthcare: 15.2
• Finance: 11.7
• Consumer staples: 10.3
• Non-basic consumption: 2.2
• Energy: 1.0
• Communication/Other: 1.4%

Sector allocation with ETF at the target weighting of 40%:

• Information technology: 31%
• Industry: 17 %
• Healthcare: 14
• Financials: 13
• Basic consumption: 10
• Non-basic consumption: 4 %
• Energy: 2 %
• Other: 3 %

Cash ratio is too high at approx. 25% for additional purchases or unexpected expenses (repairs etc.)?

I have thought about a defensive addition with Pepsi $PEP (-0,25%) and am still considering adding to my technology section, but unfortunately a lot has run away from me, especially in connection with AI. (so the technology portion of individual stocks is increasing and will not decrease as the ETF increases -> strong growth sector)

I also saw an interesting article earlier from @EpsEra on the battery and energy storage industry. However, I need to read up on this in more detail. Thank you for the informative article!

I also find robotics interesting, but I think I already have a strong player with Kawasaki in my portfolio.

I would be very happy to receive well-founded criticism, feedback and comments! Would you also like to expand the ETF to 40%?

This will be my future portfolio allocation and is almost already like this, only small changes need to be made.

ETFs (75%)

$VWCE (+0,1%) (85%)

$TDIV (+0,3%) (10%)

$EIMI (-0,52%) (5%)

Crypto (20%)

$BTC (+0,37%)

Commodities (5%)

$EWG2 (+0,46%)

$SSLN (+0,05%)

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I will also pick out a few individual stocks. But I'll only track them separately and see how they perform in a few years. I will probably opt for the following, which are already very popular in the community. $IREN (+0,65%) , $RKLB (+0%) , $TTI (+2,47%) , $WM (-0,05%) , $INT (+0,72%) , $SOFI (+0,67%) , $NU (-0,4%) and $DRO (-7,41%) . I will invest a total of around €5K in these shares.

What do you think of the portfolio?

Dear ETF friends,

I need your expert opinion. At first I had started to save the $VWCE (+0,1%) and thought an accumulating variant would be easiest. But now I have often heard dissenting voices and had also put some cash into the $VWRL (+0,16%) I had also put some cash into it. Briefly about me: I am 37 and therefore still have time until I retire, I spend a lot of time with my portfolio anyway and would therefore have no problem reinvesting dividends independently with the paying-out variant.

Pros / cons? Please no other suggestions. One of the two should definitely stay and serve as a private pension. The $VWCE (+0,1%) has the much better entry price for me. My exemption order has already been more than exhausted. So maybe you could leave the other one and just stop saving in it? I would be grateful for any tips from you.

Many thanks 🤗

Reading time: approx. 10 minutes

The last article was about leveraged daily ETFs - in other words, about momentum, short-term market movements and strategies where timing is crucial. Today it will be much quieter. It's about what remains when markets fluctuate and hypes fade: the fundamentals.

This article is aimed primarily at beginners and is intended to help them find their way through the ETF jungle - to understand which products are truly global, how they differ and how to build a stable core portfolio.

After all, long-term wealth accumulation does not start with the search for the highest return, but with a solid core. In my case, this core consists of three pillars:

• $ISAC (+0,04%) (iShares MSCI ACWI UCITS ETF) - as a global equity building block
• $BTC (+0,37%) (Bitcoin) - as a diversifying, asymmetric building block with its own risk profile
• $SEGA (-0,02%) (iShares Core Euro Government Bond ETF) - as a defensive counterbalance on the bond side

These three positions form the backbone of my portfolio. The rest - i.e. rotation strategies, thematic investments or leveraged products - complement the foundation.

Why an ETF comparison is important

"World ETF" sounds like global diversification. In practice, however, many of these funds only cover industrialized countries. The difference between $XDWD (+0,21%) (iShares MSCI World UCITS ETF), $ISAC (+0,04%) (iShares MSCI ACWI UCITS ETF) and $VWCE (+0,1%) (Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF) is not a marginal detail, but crucial for your own investment strategy.

Anyone who understands these differences quickly realizes how much the selection of the index determines the actual distribution in the portfolio - and how much "world" is actually in your own ETF.

The $ISAC (+0,04%)
(iShares MSCI ACWI UCITS ETF)

The $ISAC (+0,04%) tracks the MSCI All Country World Index - around 2,800 stocks from 47 countries, covering around 85% of global market capitalization.

Regional breakdown (as at October 2025):

• USA: approx. 65 %
• Europe: approx. 15 %
• Asia (incl. Japan & China): approx. 10%
• Emerging markets: approx. 10 %

This combines the $ISAC (+0,04%) industrialized and emerging markets in one product - exactly what many investors replicate themselves with two ETFs (MSCI World + MSCI Emerging Markets).

The total expense ratio (TER) is currently 0.20% p.a. - extremely favorable for a global fund of this breadth.

I use it as a core building block because it combines global diversification with simplicity: one ETF, one decision, global participation.

$ISAC (+0,04%)
vs. $XDWD (+0,21%)
(iShares MSCI World)

The $XDWD (+0,21%) (iShares MSCI World UCITS ETF) only tracks 23 industrialized countries - no emerging markets, no China, no India. It contains around 1,500 stocks and is heavily dominated by the USA.

The $ISAC (+0,04%) (iShares MSCI ACWI UCITS ETF) expands this base to include 24 emerging markets and thus has around 2,800 stocks. This means:

• $XDWD (+0,21%) is more focused, somewhat more stable, but limited to mature markets.
• $ISAC (+0,04%) is broader, more future-oriented and contains more growth markets.

In recent years, the MSCI World has been slightly ahead because the emerging markets have underperformed. In the long term, these phases tend to even out - and this is precisely where the ACWI shows its strength: It automatically grows with the global economy, even if the regional focus changes.

$ISAC (+0,04%)
vs. $VWCE (+0,1%)
(Vanguard FTSE All-World)

The $VWCE (+0,1%) (Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF) is the best-known alternative to the $ISAC (+0,04%) . It also combines industrialized and emerging markets, but according to the FTSE index methodology and with around 4,000 shares - i.e. somewhat broader.

Both funds fulfill the same purpose: global coverage in a single product. The differences lie in the details - for example in the country classification (e.g. South Korea is listed as an industrialized country in FTSE, but as an emerging country in MSCI).

The performance is also almost identical. The TER of the $VWCE (+0,1%) at 0.19% p.a. is even slightly lower than that of the $ISAC (+0,04%) . Both funds therefore offer an almost equivalent opportunity to invest globally over the long term.

Concentration in the $ISAC (+0,04%)

Despite its breadth, the ACWI is also concentrated on a few heavyweights. The top 5 positions account for around 18% of the fund (as at October 2025):

• $NVDA (+0,98%) (NVIDIA)
• $AAPL (+0,47%) (Apple)
• $MSFT (+0,77%) (Microsoft)
• $GOOG (+0,14%) & $GOOGL (-0,02%) (Alphabet)
• $AMZN (+1,11%) (Amazon)

This shows how strongly the US technology sector shapes the global markets. This weighting is not a disadvantage, but a true reflection of global market capitalization. I consciously accept this structure, but balance it out with my other core components: $BTC (+0,37%) (Bitcoin) as an uncorrelated asset and $SEGA (-0,02%) (iShares Core Euro Government Bond ETF) as an anchor of stability.

Five-year performance (as at October 2025)

• $XDWD (+0,21%) (MSCI World): + 90 %
• $ISAC (+0,04%) (MSCI ACWI): + 84 %
• $VWCE (+0,1%) (FTSE All-World): + 83 %

The differences are manageable. The MSCI World benefited more from the dominance of the USA, while $ISAC (+0,04%) and $VWCE (+0,1%) are more broadly based. This global diversification can lead to more stable returns in the long term because it is less dependent on individual markets.

What newcomers can take away from this

In my opinion, an ETF is often sufficient. A global fund like the $ISAC (+0,04%) covers almost all markets - ideal for getting started.

Keep an eye on costs. A TER of 0.20 % is very favorable for this breadth.

Global means USA-dominated. Around two thirds of the fund comes from the United States - and that is currently the market reality.

Simplicity is an advantage. Those who manage fewer products remain more consistent in the long term.

Time beats actionism. The compound interest effect unfolds its power over years - not months.

The $ISAC (+0,04%) (iShares MSCI ACWI UCITS ETF) is the centerpiece of my portfolio. It stands for breadth, simplicity and global participation - and realistically reflects the global economy.

Together with the $BTC (+0,37%) (Bitcoin) - which not only brings potential returns but also diversification to the portfolio - and the $SEGA (-0,02%) (iShares Core Euro Government Bond ETF) as a defensive counterpart, a robust core setup is created that covers all dimensions: Growth, stability and risk diversification.

The rest - thematic or individual investments, rotation strategies or leveraged ideas - completes the foundation.

Questions at the end:

• How do you structure your core?
• Do you use an all-in-one ETF like the $ISAC (+0,04%) or do you prefer to combine your own with $XDWD (+0,21%) and emerging markets?
• And what role does $BTC (+0,37%) diversification, return or both play for you?

We added a new $VWCE package.

I will continue to increase until I am looking for 85-90% total portfolio in this fund.