Mr. Lemonade One year ago I estimated the dividend payout for 2023 for the ETF iShares CHDVD in 2023 in this blog. On the one hand it is a good point to look back and check how well the estimate has forecasted the real outcome. On the other hand, it is a good time to make an … mehr lesen
Three years ago I started to invest into the Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate ETF with ticker (VNQI). I found the ETF appealing due to its low expense ratio of 0.12%. The fund invests in real estate companies outside from the USA. E.g. it even has small exposure to the following real estate companies listed … mehr lesen
Throughout the last year I have noticed that prices of several items in supermarkets in Switzerland have increased. Obviously, the inflation as explained in a earlier blog that has been prevalent has played a major part here. Moreover, it appeared to me that prices for the cheap lines e.g. M-Budget at Migros have increased over-proportionally. … mehr lesen
Are you also concerned that the health premiums are going to increase again in 2024? I showed that the health costs measured by the LIK actually have decreased by about 7.4% since 2010 in the blog entry in March 2023. I visualize this development again in figure 1 below. This feels weirdly at odds with … mehr lesen
So what dividend payout can we expect from the ETF CHDVD in 2023? Last July I reported about the dividend growth of the ETF CHDVD which track the SPI Select Dividend 20 from SIX in this blog entry. I reported that this ETF paid out 4.94 CHF/share in 2022. iShares has announced a total of … mehr lesen
In my last blog entry I mentioned that the health cost measured by the LIK went down by -0.43% throughout the year 2022 while at the same time the health premiums increased by 6.6% on average for the year 2023 compared to 2022. The raises some interesting question to me. I am very curious to learn … mehr lesen
The inflation in Switzerland between the 01.01.2010 and the 31.12.2021 moved only from a level of 101.254 in the beginning to 101.523. I.e. the prices on aggregated measured by the LIK edged up only 0.266% over this 11 year period. Using the geometric mean formula we compute an annualized inflation rate of around 0.0241% for … mehr lesen
During the last year the topic of inflation rates around the globe gained traction. Opening up the newspaper one is often confronted with quotes reporting sky-high inflation rates: USA: The annual inflation rate in the US accelerated to 9.1% in June of 2022, the highest since November of 1981, from 8.6% in May and above … mehr lesen
I quite like the ETF from iShares called Swiss Dividend ETF as I have written in my first blog post one year ago here. Since I am in the process of predicting the inflow from cash of dividends I was also curious to see how the the dividend of this ETF evolved over time. iShares … mehr lesen
In the analysis of part II of the estimation of dividend growth we could see that there are two different maxima in terms of best filtering techniques that appear to perform best estimating next year’s dividend growth when using the root mean square deviation as a measure to compare the different techniques. The two maxima … mehr lesen
