1% commission charges and updates

By Finance Smiths • November 12, 2016

Biggest news of this week is that Trump will be the next president of US. I didn't take any positions before or after the polling day. The markets are especially volatile and my portfolio & investing strategy are designed to try and navigate times like these more calmly. Sometimes by staying out and doing nothing. I have just been fine-tuning the auto-purchases of the ETFs in the Monthly Investment Plans (MIPs). As it turns out, the auto-purchase of 1 share of the SPDR Gold Shares (O87) under the Maybank KE MIP did not happen again for the month of Nov 2016. Decided to stop this component of the Maybank KE MIP but only continue with the one for the auto-purchase of the SPDR Straits Times Index ETF (ES3). Made other changes such that these are the current auto-purchase constituents of the MIPs: