September 2021 Portfolio Update
What a brutal and miserable month. Just about every commentator is saying that the bull market is over and that the spectre of inflation is deflating »
July 2021 Portfolio Update
After a rocky period my portfolio managed to finally reverse the trend with a 3.1% gain taking me up to 12.5% YTD. This is »
May 2021 Portfolio Update
One of the truisms in investing is that you should sell in May and go away (if you want to avoid the summer doldrums). I certainly »
March 2021 Portfolio Update
It turns out that March was a remarkably positive month for my portfolio with 90% of my holdings either rising strongly or being broadly in-line with »
February 2021 Portfolio Update
Well that was certainly a month of two halves. For the first two or three weeks it was all plain sailing with, I think, my gain »
January 2021 Portfolio Update
I'm so glad that we've made it into a new year. Finally there's some light on the horizon, with people being vaccinated at quite a pace, »
December 2020 Portfolio Update
It's with a sigh of relief that I write these words on the first day of 2021. I'm hardly alone in being glad to see the »
November 2020 Portfolio Update
It's a pleasure to report on a decent result this month despite the great rotation from growth to value. Clearly news of multiple vaccines proving effective »
May 2020 Portfolio Update
While this was a fairly quiet month for corporate news it was anything but dull for investors. Despite further stock-market volatility the relentless bounce-back continued as »
April 2020 Portfolio Update
An almost total reversal here from March with optimism buoying the markets upwards. I find that quite remarkable but I guess that investors are looking forwards »