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September, 2018: 23
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Investor's Journal is a diary focused strictly on investments and personal finance issues, primarily from a contrarian and retiree point of view. Follow along with an average guy's failures and successes as he learns, by trial and error, the fine art of value investing.


9/23/18-Since the prior entry (8/28/18), there has been one sale (MDB) from our holdings. As mentioned in the last entry, we have expanded our core holdings to 25. One asset (TTD) has been purchased to replace MDB.

Accordingly, our new basic 25 holdings are as follows: AEG; AYX; BRK/B; BRX; CAH; GAIN; GILD; GM; HMC; INFY; LYB; MCK; NHC; NTNX; OLP; PVTL; RIO; SLB; SNY; T; TTD; TWLO; USB; VOD; and WPP.

Our liquid assets are down 1.54%, or $21,812, to $1,394,836 since that last entry. The liquid assets' yield continues to be at least 2.0% and now exceeds our 12/31/18 goal of $37,500. The intention hereafter is to raise total dividends for liquid assets at least 13.5% a year.

Since the end of 2017, net total assets have increased 1.03%, or $17,342, to $1,702,546.

The core holdings approach continues to be to sell just one asset from our basic 25 stocks each 4 weeks (except when out of town) and to buy in that period just one new asset to replace the one redeemed. We shall also maintain an allocation of 67% in equities and 33% in bond assets or reserves, rebalancing and restoring those allocation percentages annually.

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