Three months already over in the new year….this year is definitely going faster than last year! Nothing interesting this month. My passive income streams boosted by appx 16% but somehow I feel unsatisfied…not sure why. Maybe the pace of reaching my goals is slow 🙂 Anyways, let us look at the numbers for March 2017.
Emergency Fund $60K | |
College Fund (80K) | |
Passive Income (2016 vs 2017) | |
Retirement Fund | |
Roof for our Family($750K) | 00.00% |
Medical Fund (via HSA) | |
Life Insurance | Done (term life insurance policy) |
Main Takeaways this month
- Passive Income Stream
- Passive Income for Mar 2017 ($1219.83) is appx 16% higher than Mar 2016 ($1052.01).
- I did not add more funds this month since all my investment vehicles are trading at peak values. Waiting for the next dip to invest more. One exception is listed next.
- Additional Investments
- International exposure
- Just like prior months, I have continued to increase my exposure outside the US. Stocks in United States seem too overvalued to my simple mind. I want my passive income streams to come from many countries all over the world to spread the risk of a single part of the world going through a bad phase.
- So, I have added some more funds to my existing investments in Emerging markets (via VEIEX) and Euro-Pacific Developed Markets (via VTMGX).
- International exposure
- Build a tiny cash fund again
- I am accumulating some money in a money market fund. I want to have a small cash fund accumulated to take advantage of any market dip(s).
Nice side income. I agree with you on holding cash back right now. Stocks to are too pricey.
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Looks like you also have kept a healthy amount of un-deployed cash in your brokerage account! I get tempted sometime to use my cash fund…but when I look at the rate of NAV increase for my mutual funds for the past 3 months, it seems insane to buy into it. So, lets see how things turn out in a couple months.
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Wow, that is a lot of green. Well done you! Keep that up, you are doing great.
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Lots of progress, green and awesomeness. I agree – you have to look hard to find the value out there at the moment.
Mr DDU
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