I used a lump sum to buy an initial 18 shares on 22nd October 2010. I have not invested new money, but I have reinvested all dividends.
I have sold a few companies (Balfour Beatty, Centrica, Tesco, Berkeley, off the top of my head) and bought several more; I now have 23 holdings.
This is not intended to be a full report - I'll do my usual annual report in the New Year - but given that it's a nice round anniversary, I thought it might be interesting to share some headlines.
I am sure nobody will be surprised to learn that the portfolio is doing a fair bit worse in terms of both valuation and income than it was, say, on its 9th anniversary.
The valuation is up by 71% - but almost all of that is down to income rather than growth. I have been paid 69% of my initial investment in dividends.
Given that the FTSE 100 is at 5753 as I type, and that it closed at 5741 on October 22nd 2010, that's probably not a huge surprise either.
Yield for the 2020 calendar year looks like it will be around 4.6% on today's value (based on my own records of dividend declarations, rather than the forecasts which inform the numbers below).
For the hell of it - if you can bear to look - here's the state of play at the moment, courtesy of the ever-wonderful HYPTUSS overview tab :
Value Div Fcst
Share Epic Sector %Total %Total Yield
HSBC Holdings HSBA Banks 2.1% 0.9% 2.2%
Vodafone Group VOD Mobile Telecommunications 2.6% 4.0% 7.5%
GlaxoSmithKline GSK Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 5.0% 5.7% 5.7%
Royal Dutch Shell 'B' RDSB Oil & Gas Producers 1.9% 2.2% 5.8%
Unilever ULVR Food Producers 8.3% 5.2% 3.1%
British American Tobacco BATS Tobacco 3.3% 5.3% 8.0%
AstraZeneca AZN Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 8.8% 4.6% 2.6%
Imperial Brands IMB Tobacco 1.7% 3.6% 10.4%
Diageo DGE Beverages 6.9% 3.6% 2.6%
Reckitt Benckiser Group RB Household Goods & Home Construction 6.4% 3.1% 2.4%
National Grid NG Multiutilities 5.4% 5.7% 5.2%
Legal and General Group LGEN Life Insurance 4.9% 9.2% 9.4%
Aviva AV Life Insurance 2.2% 4.5% 10.2%
BAE Systems BA Aerospace & Defence 4.0% 4.1% 5.1%
SSE SSE Electricity 5.0% 6.0% 6.0%
Schroders (Non-Voting) SDRC Financial Services 5.0% 6.1% 6.0%
British Land Company BLND Retail REITs 2.9% 2.1% 3.7%
Tate and Lyle TATE Food Producers 4.0% 3.6% 4.5%
Micro Focus International MCRO Software & Computer Services 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
Rio Tinto RIO Mining 4.7% 6.6% 7.0%
BHP Group BHP Mining 6.1% 7.0% 5.7%
Tritax Big Box BBOX Real Estate Holding & Development 5.2% 4.0% 3.9%
United Utilities Group UU Gas, Water & Multiutilities 2.9% 2.8% 4.9%
Running Yield: 4.97%
Value Div
Sector %Total %Total
Mining 10.8% 13.5%
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 13.8% 10.3%
Gas, Water & Multiutilities 2.9% 2.8%
Aerospace & Defence 4.0% 4.1%
Tobacco 5.1% 9.0%
Household Goods & Home Construction 6.4% 3.1%
Beverages 6.9% 3.6%
Oil & Gas Producers 1.9% 2.2%
Life Insurance 7.1% 13.7%
Retail REITs 2.9% 2.1%
Multiutilities 5.4% 5.7%
Software & Computer Services 0.7% 0.0%
Financial Services 5.0% 6.1%
Banks 2.1% 0.9%
Real Estate Holding & Development 5.2% 4.0%
Food Producers 12.4% 8.8%
Mobile Telecommunications 2.6% 4.0%
Electricity 5.0% 6.0%
Note: 1...'Value %Total' is the portfolio value of the share as a % of the total portfolio
2...'Div %Total' is the expected dividend of the share based on forecast yield
as a % of the total portfolio expected dividend
Chris