Ian, I would prefer to see the weights of individual holdings, rather than your allocation to sectors. Then one could decide whether anything in particular was crying out for action.
In the last 12 months I have had cause to trim a number of holdings, 10 times in all, which includes trimming WMH twice and a total disposal of them. Rio Tinto was one, in July at 4638p, whereas now it is at about £60. BHP and RIO are my two heaviest shares, at 3.5%, some way below my trigger point of 4.2% or 50% above median weight. Some way to go before any more trimming is needed.
Here is my sector analysis:
Summary
Sector Weight Income Cost Yield Shares
Banks/Fin 1.79% 0.00% 4.51% 0.00% LLOY
Bldg 2.70% 0.00% 3.33% 0.00% TW.
Eng 6.21% 5.95% 1.87% 3.65% BA. IMI
Food 7.77% 7.37% 4.54% 3.52% TATE ULVR RB.
Leisure 8.34% 5.75% 10.59% 2.45% IGG DGE MARS
Insur 9.95% 15.33% 11.83% 5.79% AV. ADM LGEN
Media 3.17% 2.43% 5.29% 2.89% PSON
Mining 10.00% 9.89% 8.78% 3.63% BHP S32 RIO
Oil/Gas 5.63% 7.66% 9.85% 5.09% BP. RDSB
Pharm 5.29% 6.11% 1.97% 4.35% AZN GSK
Property 8.31% 7.32% 8.45% 3.28% SGRO BLND PHP
Retail 7.12% 3.22% 11.48% 1.34% MKS TSCO KGF
Support 5.04% 2.38% -2.20% 1.48% CPG SMDS
Telecom 4.86% 4.31% 8.57% 3.18% BT.A VOD
Tobacco 4.69% 10.01% 3.67% 8.10% IMT BATS
Utils 9.13% 12.27% 7.46% 5.08% UU. NG. SSE
Totals: 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 3.71% 16 13 7
Medians: 5.92% 6.03% 6.37% 3.40%
Total: 36
You have done me a good turn, because when I looked at my table it still had WMH in it, and IGG did not feature, so I have had to update it. Insurance looks high because I have included Admiral, which is effectively a different sub sector. My top up table has undergone a radical change of late:
Top-up Income Cost
Rank EPIC Rank EPIC % Income Rank Epic % Cost
1 IMB* 1 LGEN 5.88% 1 AV. 4.59%
2 BATS* 2 AV. 5.40% 2 PSON 4.28%
3 VOD* 3 BATS 5.40% 3 BP. 4.27%
4 GSK 4 BP. 5.15% 4 RDSB 4.27%
5 BP.*+ 5 IMB 4.78% 5 LLOY 4.22%
6 NG. 6 RIO 4.59% 6 MARS 4.18%
7 RB. 7 SSE 4.51% 7 GSK 4.07%
8 MKS# 8 VOD 4.39% 8 BT.A 4.03%
9 BLND 9 ADM 4.30% 9 MKS 3.86%
10 IGG 10 NG. 4.18% 10 PHP 3.66%
11 TATE 11 GSK 4.16% 11 IGG 3.59%
12 BA. 12 UU. 3.78% 12 S32 3.57%
13 AZN 13 BA. 3.78% 13 TSCO 3.51%
14 CPG# 14 IGG 3.54% 14 BLND 3.49%
15 RDSB+ 15 TATE 3.34% 15 BHP 3.38%
16 ULVR 16 TSCO 3.28% 16 LGEN 3.28%
17 LGEN* 17 BHP 3.05% 17 SSE 3.14%
18 LLOY+ 18 PHP 2.91% 18 KGF 3.02%
19 MARS# 19 BLND 2.65% 19 BATS 2.90%
20 SGRO 20 RDSB 2.63% 20 VOD 2.87%
The top of the table has far fewer disqualifications, (*) for weight of income, (+) for share of cost and (#) for lack of dividends. That's what comes of introducing IGG to the portfolio. More resumptions of dividends (like TW. announced today in its update) will have a marked effect.
TJH