How am I doing?
Another quarter has passed by with the FTSE100 index finishing broadly where it started. It began the period at 6,755 points and drifted down by 0.9% to end the quarter at 6,695 points. The tension in Ukraine dominated the news and caused global markets to fall. Thankfully it seems the US has no appetite for any further conflict, and hopefully it will be influential Russians themselves that eventually temper Putin’s aggression. Along with Russia’s stock market, it is the other Emerging Markets that continue to suffer. Thankfully we have no direct exposure to these stock markets.
Like the previous three months, this is usually a good quarter to be fully invested. However this period would have seen no growth without the dividends generated in our portfolios. We are pleased to say that our strategy over the last 3 months has meant that each of our managed portfolios have shown another quarter of growth. Continue reading “April 2014 Investment Review”