Monday 3 June 2019

Net Worth: May 2019

"Sell in May and go away" - one of the old stock market sayings that hadn't been reliable in recent years, but certainly would have been worth heeding towards the end of May 2019. My overall net worth declined by $39,729 (-1.72%) during May, which isn't much fun considering it is around half my annual after-tax salary, or the equivalent of my total expected start-up/running costs for my financial planning business for two years! The decline in the stock markets saw my geared share portfolio decline by -$8,310 (-3.71%) and my retirement savings decline by -$18,695 (-1.78%). While the rate of decline in the Sydney housing market appears to be slowing, our estimated house price was down by -$12,956 (-1.75%), the size of the drop being partly due to no sales data being available last month (so this was essentially two months of price change in one hit). The election result and the likely cut in interest rates by the RBA will hopefully put a floor under Sydney house prices.

The ongoing trade war between the US-China is expanding to include Europe and Mexico (Trump seems to think Tariffs are a multi-purpose blunt instrument to beat everyone into submission) is starting to look like it could bring an end to the US economic growth cycle just as the global economy is quite anemic. So in the current situation it doesn't look like the rest of 2019 is going to be particularly kind to my net worth situation.

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