HYP short selection
Posted: July 29th, 2019, 6:13 am
I have been thinking about getting back into HYP for part of my ISA due to the great value on offer in the UK at the moment.
Some of you may already know that I have been running a test portfolio called the Gadge Global Income Portfolio (GGIP) for a few years now and that this is benchmarked against various things inc Scottish mortgage/PNL 50/50 barbell and Vanguard LS 80/20.
So, I decided to add a new benchmark to the dashboard consisting of £126600 of HYP, which is the current notional value of GGIP today.
To keep the selection simple, I bought 75k of ISF from iShares which is a distributing ETF of the FTSE. This yields approx 4 5 per cent currently which I think is a great return and 1 per cent more than I would want to take out annually.
To make it HYP, give it a slight edge over the FTSE on yield and to overweight it towards certain shares as I see fit, I then spent the balance on equal shares of VOD (liking the new guys ideas eg floating off masts), GSK and RIO.
My dashboard automatically backtests each portfolio and to my surprise this combo has produced returns in the last 12 months of over 30 per cent and has trounced all other benchmarks inc GGIP.
Interesting and I think I may repeat this exercise in real life this week.
I hold Compass already and this would add a bit of defense to the mix but will lower the overall yield a bit.
Anyway, I really like the company's business so it's not going anywhere for sure.
Gadge
Some of you may already know that I have been running a test portfolio called the Gadge Global Income Portfolio (GGIP) for a few years now and that this is benchmarked against various things inc Scottish mortgage/PNL 50/50 barbell and Vanguard LS 80/20.
So, I decided to add a new benchmark to the dashboard consisting of £126600 of HYP, which is the current notional value of GGIP today.
To keep the selection simple, I bought 75k of ISF from iShares which is a distributing ETF of the FTSE. This yields approx 4 5 per cent currently which I think is a great return and 1 per cent more than I would want to take out annually.
To make it HYP, give it a slight edge over the FTSE on yield and to overweight it towards certain shares as I see fit, I then spent the balance on equal shares of VOD (liking the new guys ideas eg floating off masts), GSK and RIO.
My dashboard automatically backtests each portfolio and to my surprise this combo has produced returns in the last 12 months of over 30 per cent and has trounced all other benchmarks inc GGIP.
Interesting and I think I may repeat this exercise in real life this week.
I hold Compass already and this would add a bit of defense to the mix but will lower the overall yield a bit.
Anyway, I really like the company's business so it's not going anywhere for sure.
Gadge