Christian Delacour is a tax officer and makes YouTube videos about his investments. Christian Delacour
Tax officer Christian Delacour has reached his first million in the portfolio after 17 years.
When tax officer Christian Delacour first invested his money in stocks at the age of 18, he says there were no specific goals. “I just started stock picking,” says the 42-year-old in an interview with Business Insider. “My investments were pretty random. However, when I developed a strategy later, my focus changed,” he says. Now, with breaks, around 17 years later, he has reached a milestone: the first million in his portfolio.
According to Delacour, many factors contributed to the rise to the 1,044,598 euros he now has in his portfolio. (Business Insider was able to see his portfolio.) In one Youtube-Video he speaks of “happiness, optimism, discipline, but also inspiring role models”. When it comes to investing, his main role models are ETF expert Gerd Kommer and Andreas Beck, portfolio manager from Global Portfolio One. “I particularly admire how Andreas Beck invests humbly and without forecasting,” he tells Business Insider in an interview.
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Delacour says that he took Beck’s strategy to heart and came up with a similar one. “I would describe her as ‘humble,'” he says. “No one can truly predict how the stock market will perform and I refuse to rely on speculative chart analysis.”
This is how his portfolio is divided
But what does this investment strategy actually look like? “The basis of this is actually maximum diversification into the global economy,” he says. Specifically related to his portfolio, this means that scarce 92 percent His portfolio consists of ETFs, while stocks include others seven to eight percent turn off. This is what the exact distribution of his portfolio content looks like: