Portfolio Manager

valiant24

I'm returning as a dog to its own vomit on this question that I asked many months before ...
Can anyone recommend a portfolio management and analysis tool?  I even don't mind paying.   Here's my experience:
FT: the portfolio tool is OK at displaying the more-or-less real-time status of your portfolio.   But, no analysis.
Morningstar: Truly execrable.  The £18/mth X-ray is hopeless and the customer support awful.
Trustnet: Unusable.  I simply cannot work out how to add the simplest ETF (VWRL) to a portfolio.
Excel Price Feed (https://www.excelpricefeed.com/) looked promising.  But at the time I trialled it I had a complex portfolio and it didn't recognise my funds.   I've simplified now and may give it another twirl, but my trial has run out and I can't get Excel to forget about that.
Anything I am missing?  My portfolio is pretty simple now: global trackers, UK trackers, UK gilt ETFs and some God ETFs.
Thanks
V

MX5huggy

I don’t have much experience, but trustnet seems to work for me. Portfolio ➡️Create a Portfolio then add a fund VWRL is under ETF, Vanguard (Ireland) then pick it (you need to know the long name). Then add some funds to it just need the date of each buy and the value it works out the unit price for you. 

JohnWinder

We shouldn't be judgemental any more than we shouldn't give advice, but we give advice so.........

It looks like a buy and hold portfolio, not a trader's portfolio; what sort of management and analysis of the portfolio are you after if four yearly 'does it need rebalancing?' maybe all it needs?

Nor am I a believer in God ETF's.

valiant24

JohnWinder said:

We shouldn't be judgemental any more than we shouldn't give advice, but we give advice so.........

It looks like a buy and hold portfolio, not a trader's portfolio; what sort of management and analysis of the portfolio are you after if four yearly 'does it need rebalancing?' maybe all it needs?

Nor am I a believer in God ETF's.

It's made up of global ETFs 40% ; Gold ETFs 10% ; UK Gilts ETFs 30% ; UK FTSE 250 ETF 10%; Cash 10% so it does need rebalancing occasionally.
What is "God ETF's"?

eskbanker

valiant24 said:

What is "God ETF's"?

A good question, prompted by your OP:

valiant24 said:

My portfolio is pretty simple now: global trackers, UK trackers, UK gilt ETFs and some God ETFs.

valiant24

eskbanker said:

valiant24 said:

What is "God ETF's"?

A good question, prompted by your OP:

valiant24 said:

My portfolio is pretty simple now: global trackers, UK trackers, UK gilt ETFs and some God ETFs.

Hah!  Sorry about that.  Gold.

Linton

valiant24 said:

I'm returning as a dog to its own vomit on this question that I asked many months before ...
Can anyone recommend a portfolio management and analysis tool?  I even don't mind paying.   Here's my experience:
FT: the portfolio tool is OK at displaying the more-or-less real-time status of your portfolio.   But, no analysis.
Morningstar: Truly execrable.  The £18/mth X-ray is hopeless and the customer support awful.
Trustnet: Unusable.  I simply cannot work out how to add the simplest ETF (VWRL) to a portfolio.
Excel Price Feed (https://www.excelpricefeed.com/) looked promising.  But at the time I trialled it I had a complex portfolio and it didn't recognise my funds.   I've simplified now and may give it another twirl, but my trial has run out and I can't get Excel to forget about that.
Anything I am missing?  My portfolio is pretty simple now: global trackers, UK trackers, UK gilt ETFs and some God ETFs.
Thanks
V

I find the Mornngstar paid-for portfolio Xray data analysis excellent - which is fortunate as it is the only viable option for non-professionals not willing to pay professional prices.  It forms the basis of my whole investment management approach.  What is your problem?

The only amateur alternative is Trustnet which is very poor - it only includes those funds which pay for a listing and the categorisation is not standardised.  So one fund  may invest in "Europe" and another in individual European countries. Similarly with industrial sectors.  This does not help when producing a portrfolio overview.

I have had no problem setting up an ETF dummy portfolio on Trustnet.  Morningstar is harder work but most of the ETFs I tried were found.  Morningstar isnt adequate for full portfolio management, but that's not it's role.  The same is true for any of the free portfolio tools.  I use MsMoney which remains unsurpassed by anything anywhere despite being unsupported for the past 15 years.

grumiofoundation

https://www.globalxetfs.com/funds/cath/

OldMusicGuy

I find the free version of X-Ray cumbersome but adequate for analysing my three multi-asset fund portfolio for rebalancing and tracking purposes. If you have a lot of funds it will be a right pain in the rear as you can't save anything.

Linton

OldMusicGuy said:

I find the free version of X-Ray cumbersome but adequate for analysing my three multi-asset fund portfolio for rebalancing and tracking purposes. If you have a lot of funds it will be a right pain in the rear as you can't save anything.

The Morningstar paid for version does have saved portfolios and IIRC it gives more detailed data.

cloud_dog

Linton said:

I use MsMoney which remains unsurpassed by anything anywhere despite being unsupported for the past 15 years.

Yup, still using it for a number of portfolios together with MSMoneyQuotes.