I received a few questions following my last blog which sparked the inspiration to do another blog tonight.

Some of you were interested in the size of my portfolios but sorry folks, I am not comfortable to reveal.

It is not big enough – I am just a normal employee in a company that has been working for over 2 decades plus. It is not small but I still need to work very hard and hopefully use the remaining few years to accumulate more cash and build my portfolios to a suitable size to support a reliable passive income generation for me and my family.

My aim is 5% yield and based on a typical monthly family expenditure, you can probably guess the quantum that I am aiming for.

Yes, I have 3 investment portfolios.

First is my Index portfolio which holds all my ETFs and unit trusts. I want

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