My SaS ISA portfolio, any thoughts?

Flatulentoldgoat

Appreciated but I guess it really 'ought to summarize my choices before expending a reasonable assessment can be made.

Exclusion of the UK. Group think - in the short to medium term, I'm concerned with Brexit and the potential risks concerning the break up of the Union (which looks likely)The powerhouse in the UK is financial services, and as per above it doesn't bode well.

I'm growth focused with a high tolerance for risk. BG has recently been hit by the TSLA revaluation and I'm trying to buy the 'dip' but the risk is that the slide continues. Hence, I have reserved a significant portion of my holdings to a relatively safer tracker VWRL and to a more limited degree iShares world value.

Healthcare is a long term bet, very 50/50. With an ageing population there is likely growth in this sector to come. I was going to go for ICLN but I suspect that's still over valued and requires rebalancing (less Plug)

Flatulentoldgoat

*iShares Edge MSCI World value factor ETF.

underground99

Flatulentoldgoat said:

I'm growth focused with a high tolerance for risk. BG has recently been hit by the TSLA revaluation and I'm trying to buy the 'dip' but the risk is that the slide continues. Hence, I have reserved a significant portion of my holdings to a relatively safer tracker VWRL and to a more limited degree iShares world value.

Healthcare is a long term bet, very 50/50. With an ageing population there is likely growth in this sector to come. I was going to go for ICLN but I suspect that's still over valued and requires rebalancing (less Plug)

Presumably the markets setting the stock prices know that the world has an ageing population, and so the prices at which the fund will be buying its stocks have already been set accordingly. Still, it's a popular theme.

But even with a high risk tolerance, shouldn't you be looking for odds better than 50/50? It sounds like you're saying 'it might work out or it might not' ; if it works out, is it likely to beat all your other growth funds to a sufficient extent that compensates for the 50/50 chance that it does worse than them?

MaxiRobriguez

underground99 said:

MaxiRobriguez said:

I don't get the pacific inclusion - it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the portfolio which is heavy on growth.

The Pacific fund's top holdings include Tencent, JD.com, Meituan, Taiwan Semi, Samsung SDI? Seems quite in line with a portfolio heavy on growth - similar to the types of companies held in the other growth-heavy funds (e.g. SMT also holds Tencent and Meituan within its top ten)

That'll teach me to look under the hood.

Assumed it was going to chocked full of Australian miners.

Alexland

Steve182 said:

I'm slightly disappointed that nobody else has stepped in here. I'm a growth focused investor...

I doubt many forum members put such a high style weighting on growth or loading up on whatever fund manager has done well recently hoping it continues (no offense - as it sometimes does for years under favourable economic conditions) so it's hard to relate to those that want to take such high risks with their money. Similar with the bitcoin threads some of these people's thinking on the risks they are willing to take is so very different that it often ends up in pointless arguments. At the end of the day it's a mostly free country and if people want to accept the possibility they get a poor outcome in pursuit of a better than average return there's no point me saying they should think twice and push what I think they should be doing taking a more balanced and managed risk view. However if someone is broadly on the same page or just starting out and might accept some pointers to improve their chances to achieve their objectives in a mainstream and broadly accepted way then there might be a conversation to join in on.

Thrugelmir

Flatulentoldgoat said:

Appreciated but I guess it really 'ought to summarize my choices before expending a reasonable assessment can be made.

Exclusion of the UK. Group think - in the short to medium term, I'm concerned with Brexit and the potential risks concerning the break up of the Union (which looks likely)The powerhouse in the UK is financial services, and as per above it doesn't bode well.

I'm growth focused with a high tolerance for risk. BG has recently been hit by the TSLA revaluation and I'm trying to buy the 'dip' but the risk is that the slide continues. Hence, I have reserved a significant portion of my holdings to a relatively safer tracker VWRL and to a more limited degree iShares world value.

Healthcare is a long term bet, very 50/50. With an ageing population there is likely growth in this sector to come. I was going to go for ICLN but I suspect that's still over valued and requires rebalancing (less Plug)

Opinions drive markets that's what makes investing so interesting. 

On healthcare we share a similar viewpoint. Otherwise we differ in some form particularly the potential for UK listed companies. Having sat and puzzled over the companies business models in the run up to the Dot Com boom. I'll happily wait for the dust to settle on the "growth" companies. Technology alone is no guarantee for an immediate successful commercial future.