Has anyone here put in more than 35% of your portfolio into one stock?
If yes, what gave you that conviction? Deep due diligence? What made you take that risk?
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Billy
19 Jan 2020
Development & Acquisitions Manager at Real Estate Private Equity
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Lim Boon Tat
19 Jan 2020
Mathematics at Cambridge University
As many had answered, it depends on your own research and whether you have special insights into the company. I know of many who worked at big companies who have kept their vested stocks forever, and as their stocks appreciated, it formed more than 50% of their portfolio. I assume they have special insights into their company which gave them that conviction.
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When I was young and greed took over. each stock will be around 50% of my portfolio during those penny stock days.
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By sheer laziness.
Employee Stock Purchase. 😂
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Pang Zhe Liang
08 Dec 2019
Fee-Based Financial Advisory Manager at Financial Alliance Pte Ltd (IFA Firm)
I have to start somewhere when I first started investing. Accordingly, investing in one stock was al...
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Majority of my portfolio was in SGX. I knew there and then that SGX was considered a monopolistic company given how regardless of market sentiments, it'd still earn from trades. Hence I bought into SGX. But sold it off after prices seemed to hover about it's high and with the reduction of IPOs, it may have lost a bit of its edge for it current share price.