What happened? October just flew past in high speed. A trip to Europe for holiday and visiting friends and family and some work travelling and stress in the office made for a very interesting and fast paced month.
Unfortunately I lost around SGD 420 by missing a flight. I took 39 flights so far this year and was never late for any of them, until I read my itinerary wrong and reached the airport after the plane had departed.
Portfolio performance
Worth of my portfolio increased by SGD 2,114 to SGD 33,829, which is largely due to re-investing of dividends received and regular investment into index funds.
Dividends received
In October I received SGD 223 in dividends from my Vanguard index funds which I of course re-invested:
| ETF | Location | Bloomberg ticker | Dividends received in October | |
| HKD | SGD | |||
| Vanguard FTSE Asia Ex Japan Index ETF | Hong Kong | 2805:HK | 600 | 100 |
| Vanguard FTSE Asia ex Japan High Dividend Yield Index ETF | Hong Kong | 3085:HK | 725 | 120 |
| Vanguard Developed Europe ETF | Hong Kong | 3101:HK | 18 | 3 |
| Total | 1,343 | 223 | ||
Portfolio allocation
Portfolio allocation is more or less on track and I am happy that my picked stocks are now at a very small 4%.
Portfolio performance vs. plan
Portfolio performance is trailing the ambitious plan for this year quite a bit. I built up my cash holdings to have a larger emergency fund but will now probably finish 2014 over 40,000 SGD.
Bring it on, November!