Revealing My 120k Investment Portfolio
Take a peek at what I own now, and we can track my progress together.
Previously, I shared an article about me investing my life savings and losing 30% in value. If you haven’t checked out that article yet, here it is:
In that article, I did promise I will reveal my entire portfolio. So I’m going to do just that in this article!
Why I Am Sharing My Portfolio To The Public
I used to keep my investments to myself. I don’t share what I invest with anyone, not even my family. So, why do I share it with the public now?
After watching a few YouTubers sharing their investments on their own Youtube channel, I thought being transparent and showing everyone my portfolio has its merits as well.
First, when people look at my investment portfolio, they will know that whatever finance-related articles I write on this community, I am actually practicing them. Can you imagine me telling investors to hold their stocks for the long term, and then I go on to keep buying and selling my own stocks. That would be hypocritical. When I am transparent, you know I mean what I write.
Second, if I publicly share my portfolio out here, we can all take a look at my progress a few years down the road. Maybe in 5 years’ time, all of you can come back to this post, either to laugh at me or congratulate me on my performance. I can also look back in the future to try and understand why I made such investments now, and I will be able to learn from my past self.
Before I share my portfolio, if any of you are interested in how I select my stocks, you can check it out here:
Are you ready?
My Investment Portfolio
Tada! I’ve said before that I have a very concentrated portfolio, so here it is: 120k split between 6 stocks.
Below, I will share more about the 6 companies that I invested in, and who I cloned. However, I will only share general information about what these companies do. I will perhaps leave the reasons why I invested in these companies for future articles. If I were to include them in this article, this article will end up too long to my liking.
I will share more about each individual company in the future. This is another promise that I’m making to you.
Topicus
I first came across this company from Chris Mayer.
Topicus is a spinoff company from its parent company Constellation Software. Topicus is a leading pan-European provider of vertical market software and vertical market platforms to clients in a select group of public and private sector markets, many of which are in defensive sectors (government, public-sector healthcare, etc.). They build, acquire and manage industry-specific software businesses which provide specialized, mission-critical, and high-impact software solutions that address the particular needs of our customers.
You can check out more about what the company does here.
Exor
I came across this company also from Chris Mayer.
Exor is an European holding company with a culture that combines entrepreneurial spirit and financial discipline. Their purpose is to build great companies, and deliver superior returns to their investors.
John Elkann has been in charge of the company since 2008 at age 32. He has thus far proven to be a good capital allocator and operator and is poised to have a long run ahead.
You can check more about the company here.
Alibaba
I knew about this company long ago, because I do use their product. But I only invested in them when Charlie Munger and Mohnish Pabrai decided to invest in it last year.
This company has been so popular that I’m sure many people would more or less know what they do. For those that don’t, I will share briefly about it.
Alibaba’s main businesses are e-commerce and Cloud. They do have other businesses, but they are not financially significant. Their e-commerce is comprised largely of two marketplace businesses — Tmall and Taobao — and is the reason why Alibaba is often described as the Chinese version of Amazon. But unlike Amazon, Alibaba outsources logistics and is asset-light.
Alibaba’s cloud business — AliCloud — is the third-largest IaaS behind Amazon and Microsoft. It may not be profitable yet, but when it reaches scale, it will have 30% operating margins like those at Amazon Web Services.
You can check out more about the company here.
InterActive Corp
I came across this company from Dennis Hong. It makes up 60% of his U.S. investments, which was what made me really interested in looking into this company.
You can view IAC as akin to Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. IAC will grow several category-leading businesses, such as Angi Inc. (ANGI), Dotdash, and would spin them off when they decide they are good enough on their own. Investors will then own part of the spun-off companies.
You can check out more about the company here.
SalesForce
I cloned Josh Terasoff and Robert Vinall into this investment.
Today, Salesforce is a global leader in cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software. Their software products help businesses to:
- Manage and track their marketing processes and their customers’ experiences;
- Onboard and track their sales leads; and
- Manage customer service operations for their existing customers.
You can check out more about the company here.
Evolution Gaming
Again, I cloned this investment from Chris Mayer.
Evolution Gaming has been operating as a B2B supplier of “turnkey” solutions for large casino operators. The key product of Evolution Gaming is a “live casino” format with croupiers, which implies interaction and complete effect of presence for end users. The company offers more than 35 games including Baccarat, Roulette, Poker, long-awaited Craps game, and many other “live” games.
You can check out more about the company here.
Parting Words
As you can see, all my investments have at least one super-investor who has invested in the company himself.
By sharing my portfolio to everyone in this community, you can keep track of my progress together with me. But, give me at least 5 years to prove myself. I am already down approximately 30%, but as I said, I am not worried. I am confident that 5 or 10 years from now, this portfolio will outperform the market.
We’ll see…
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