Portfolio

This is a very late review, coming two-thirds into the third quarter and all, but better late than never. UK equities posted a decent quarter in Q2, albeit not as good as the S&P 500. I’m using Vanguard’s FTSE U.K. All Share Index Unit Trust as a proxy, with the…

The first quarter really seems to have flown by. It definitely doesn’t feel like three months have passed since the last Micro Portfolio update. Anyway, equities seemed to have posted a pretty good start to the year, with the FTSE All Share Total Return Index scraping out 3.9% in the…

The end of the year brings the end of another quarter for the Micro Portfolio, and that means it is due its second update. The last three months of the year were obviously pretty eventful for all of us. The successful results of various COVID vaccine trials hit the news…

The Micro Portfolio has now notched up its first full quarter. I recently published an update on the American version over on The Compound Investor, and so it is time for one here too. As a brief re-cap, this whole thing is inspired by the rise in commission-free investing. I…

Following on from something similar on The Compound Investor, I figured I would start a micro portfolio for UK equities. Now, I think we are slightly behind the Americans here in terms of the zero-commission dealing revolution. We can add fractional share dealing to that as well, which is why I…