Riding Trump's success comet

Riding Trump's success comet

Despite being regarded as a highly contradictory candidate, Donald Trump has won the elections in the US. Answering the most frequently asked question today -- what influence this fact will have on other countries, including Thailand -- media keeps joking there'll be no influence. Well, we'll see a bit later whether they are right, but today we can't help admiring the new president's most outstanding success -- in finance.

You might not like the freaky billionaire, but this does not deprive you of the chance to learn how he remains on the financial track and to try to follow his path. Hard to ignore his US$10 billion capital! During the pre-election campaign, Mr. Trump published a report on his assets, so why not investigate it and borrow some investment ideas

Like any earnest American high net worth individual, Trump does not shy away from the all-time blue chips like Apple (NASDAQAAPL), AT&T (NYSET), Verizon (NYSEVZ), JPMorgan (NYSEJPM) or Visa (NYSEV). However, there are also some less conventional stocks in his portfolio, and not all of them are ‘just for fun', like Comcast Corp (NASDAQ) that brought him a 3% profit, or Bank of Nova Scotia (Toronto Stock Exchange.)

As we can see from the report, Trump has been deep into pharmaceuticals, but is gradually getting out of the sphere. He had invested some hundreds of thousands of dollars into Gilead Sciences (NASDAQGILD), producer of Ambisome and Tamiflu, but soon sold part of the assets. The same was true for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQREGN) and Pfizer (NYSEPFE) -- his shares of these companies altogether might have amounted to some US$1.5 million, but he decided to cancel these deals partly.

Trump's true passion is hedge funds. This is where he has invested over US$80 million, media says. The most massive investment was made into the Blackrock's Obsidian Fund, followed by AG Diversified Credit Strategies Fund and Advantage Advisors Xanthus Fund.

As we see, the new President is rather conservative when it comes to investment, which is also proved by a significant part of his capital kept in gold.

It is clear that Trump is a diversification and asset balancing professional. He holds several broker accounts and dynamically rules them. Such asset management strategy is reasonable for the billionaire, but it is not truly reasonable for the most of us. In our case it would be more sensible to open a single broker account and access the most viable assets from there. Frankly speaking, not many brokers offer such single accounts and -- what is more important -- make them truly convenient.

Our editorial team has recently come across EXANTE. It is an established European broker that gives access to over 50 stock exchanges all around the world, including the US and Europe. EXANTE has recently started their movement towards the Asian markets, delightfully beginning from Thailand. There are two particular things about these guys. The first is that they provide a true-to-life single account. It means that you do not have to open separate accounts for different markets, assets, periods, margins or whatever you just open one account and work. Moreover, you do not have to keep in mind all the restrictions applied to every single broker account you just get an aggregated instrument to manage your assets. Another point is that they offer insurance for your funds that covers any cataclysms that might touch upon your money.

If we apply our discussion of Trump's assets to the real life, we will see that all instruments owned by him are easily accessible by any person in the world. For example, EXANTE's trading platform represents all of them in the instruments tree here you can see all stocks, commodities (like gold or anything), funds and many other investment opportunities. All you have to do is to open the trading interface, choose the instrument you like most, study its behaviour and buy it if you're satisfied with everything. If you are not -- well, no problem, there are some 45,000 instruments at your disposal.

Coupling Trump together with EXANTE is not a sheer accident, by the way. We have already mentioned that he does love investing in hedge funds, and EXANTE provides access to a unique collection of such entities, including Trump's favorites.

We have nearly forgotten to mention that EXANTE offers support in Thai, which is really rather unexpected from a European brokerage company -- and that is why it is so delightful. It is always better to work with those who care.

So, following Trump's way is not that hard anymore. Just dare!

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