Portfolio analysis

MrC100

Hi,

I track my pension investment fund choices through the Trustnet (free) tools. This gives me the basics of risk analysis and regional profiling. Please can anyone recommend something similar that drills down deeper into the funds/holdings? I suspect it is very easy to think my choices are well diversified, when in fact they hold the same stocks as other chosen funds or trusts.

I would obviously not want to pay out for professional tools to manage my relatively modest SIPP.

Thanks.
Neil

george4064

For the vast majority of funds (99%), they won't display the full portfolio breakdown. They don't reveal the entire portfolio to stop investors just copying their fund, however easy or difficult it may be to do so.

Your best bet is to source the information yourself from the fund manager's website. There you will be able to read fund literature such as Factsheets, which will tell you things such as (they will often be worded slightly differently for different fund managers);

- country allocation
- sector allocation
- market cap allocation
- top ten holdings

Below is an example of random fund I selected.
Overview page - http://www.lindselltrain.com/investment-strategies/global-equity/lindsell-train-global-equity-fund.aspx

Fund factsheet - http://www.lindselltrain.com/~/media/Files/L/Lindsell-Train/Attachments/Latest/LTGEF_Latest.pdf

It's very easy to find literature for any fund, just google the fund manager and make sure you use the fund manager's website, not a third party website like citywire/trustnet etc..

I also use trustnet's multi-plot charting tool to compare performance of funds/investment trusts and equities.

MrC100

Thanks George.

I have seen these fact sheets, and as you say generally only the big stakes are declared. I just thought I may be missing out on some deeper analysis tools, and thought it worth an enquiry.

Regards,
Neil

kangoora

This is a free tool that allows you to compare up to 10 funds.

http://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/xray/editholdings.aspx?LanguageId=en-GB

You've also got this page but not sure how useful they are to you

http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/tools/default.aspx

The paid for version allows more I assume, but I'm not sure how much it is a month, relatively expensive if not a business cost or very large portfolio I guess.