Monday, July 26, 2021

2 Years of LHV Kasvukonto (Growth Account) Experience

Tomorrow (on the 27th of July for those who are reading on a later date) marks the 2 year anniversary of the first transfer of funds to my LHV Kasvukonto account. Technically the investing process itself started on the 2nd of August as the first 400 € got automatically traded for an index fund called SXR8. Back then the price for a single unit of the fund was at around 256 €. As of today that account has 16 678.06 € (out of which profit is +3 220.64 €, or +23.93%) on it and I wanted to dig a little deeper into the history of the account.


I am becoming more convinced about index funds as an investment tool. Currently I am only investing in one (excluding the pension funds) but I would say it is enough for my current portfolio size. I guess the only negative side for this type of investment is that it can be a bit boring. Especially on those days where the numbers go down. In my mind I am comparing this to Mintos where it is still(!) exciting to see the daily interest return notifications from the mobile app.

Let's see some statistics regarding the Kasvukonto account that I have built up.

Account Growth

The graph above shows the account value growing over time. Unfortunately I do not have a track record of profits at these points of time but the growth is noticeably more sudden in the second half of the graph due to doubled contributions and also the profitability snowballing.

So far the management fees have cost me 37.05  and the transaction fees 134.62 €. This means that in total this account has had 13 629.65 € transferred to it (568 €/month on average). If we remove the related costs the pure profit (without exit fees) comes to 3 048,41 . There is a 56 cent discrepancy but these numbers should clearly indicate how much the transaction and maintenance fees can impact the profit. Definitely worth holding the picked funds for a long time. 

One milestone I want to aim towards is 30 000 € as beyond this threshold the management fees taken by LHV Bank decrease from 0.02% to 0.01%. Since the maintenance fees consist of 0.02% taken by the bank and 0.07% taken by the ETF, the monthly fees at 30k would end up being 0.08% or 2 € per month (24 € per year) which sounds completely reasonable to me. 

It is worth noting that those lucky ones of you who are younger than 26 years can enjoy 0% maintenance fees by the bank (the specific fund fees are still applicable) - a great feature to encourage the younger generation to invest.

You might have noticed a few positive notes in the post already regarding how I feel about this investment product. I like it a lot as it is simple, low effort and so far reliable. I have automated weekly contributions to the account (currently 200 € every week) and will only increase this whenever I see better times to buy more. By picking the right funds and holding them long term, the viability of Kasvukonto seems to be good. The only negative aspect I can think of is that the trades are only performed on Wednesdays and I would sometimes like to use beginning-of-the-week or end-of-the-week lows to put some extra contributions in when the index falls a few %.

Have you tried Kasvukonto? What are your experiences with it? What else would you like to know about my experience? Feel free to share any questions you might have and I will do my best to try to answer them.

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Treasure Chest Overview - June 2021

I am.. alive! Not sure how vikings are supposed to deal with the melting sun but at some point in June I started having dreams about air conditioning. Also came to the conclusion that office is a way better place to work at with these temperatures. 

What have I been up to this month? Besides fighting the sun I enjoyed some stonehenge restoration work at my parents home. A rather unique, relaxing and creative work. I do recommend this but make sure the stones do not fall on your toes as it can hurt a lot (only tested on my brother)!

Regarding the investment portfolio I am starting to feel like the snowball was rolling quite well the past month. Psychologically I am prepared for this green era to end though.

35 degrees in Estonia they said..

Let's get to the numbers:

I feel like I have been missing a graph that is the most interesting for people after the Financial Freedom chalice so here it is - monthly overview of passive income. It is a sum of earned dividends, interest and capital gains (both realized and unrealized):

Passive income since the beginning of my investment journey a few years ago (11 273.64 €)


Some more interesting graphs to look at:

Portfolio distribution (83 859.55 €)

Networth (204 898.17 € (+0.63%))


Real estate: 114 000.00 € (0.00%)
The biggest proportion of my wealth is invested in the apartment I bought myself in the summer of 2017. It was appraised at 114 000 € back then. Perhaps by the end of the year this asset will be less than half of my networth?

Pension: 31 492.32 € (+3.65%)
My pension consists of  Estonian II pillar (20 192.25 €) and III pillar (11 300.07 €). Both have monthly automatic contribution directly from my salary and I max out my III pillar contributions at 15% of gross income.

Cash: 32 312.79 € (-4.75%)
I have a separate account for rainy days which is still a healthy 10 000 €. I am considering halving it to 5 000 € but it is a process as I need to get used to the idea of not having that much liquid assets to use in case life hits me in the face. The rest of this money is my savings/every day money that I either use or invest if there is too much of it laying round.

Crowd funding: 7 038.62 € (+0.70%)
Entirely invested in Mintos. Adding 300 € to the account every month in an automated fashion. Due to the timing of my previous post this number has only increased by the amount of interest earned. For a graphical overview check the end of this post.

Stocks: 4 467.98 € (+3.24%)
One of my first investments that is pretty evenly split between Tallinna Kaubamaja (TKM1) and Tallinna Sadam (TSM1). I plan on keeping these two for a long time having them as my small dividend income providers.

Index funds: 15 586.46 € (+9.49%)
Currently I am passively contributing 800 € every month to mutual funds. I am using LHV kasvukonto product to do it. Currently I am investing 100% of it into EXSA.

MINTOS
Crowd funding is probably one of the more fun ways of investing as something is happening every day: new investments, new interest cents and euros. Current state of my portfolio there:


Thank you for reading and we will cross paths again in a month if not sooner! 🍻