RSIC Fundamental Portfolio Review

August 2003 - August 2004

 

 

Richard W, 16th August 2004.

 

1         Summary

·         An excellent performance over the year with a net gain of £1,454 over the year, representing a return of 56.0% measured using the internal rate of return;

·         The portfolio has outperformed the FTSE 100 by 51.3%;

·         Since the start of the club, all purchases made on grounds that would have qualified the share for the Fundamental Portfolio have shown a combined profit of 28.5%.

 

1.1        Performance Against Objectives

Objectives of the Strategy for the Fundamental Sub-portfolio are (not necessarily in priority order):-

a)      To achieve an average annual rate of return on investment across the portfolio that beats the FTSE 100

Met - beat the FTSE 100 by a very significant margin.

 

b)      To protect against significant losses and to increase market knowledge by diversification across sectors.

Not Met - during the year, the portfolio has held five shares from only three different sectors. The portfolio currently holds three companies with two from the same sector.

 


 

2         Transactions

2.1        Total Transaction History

The following purchases have taken place to date (current holdings valued at realisable value[1]):

 

Company

Date Bought

# Shares

Price

Cost

Dividends

Date Sold

Sale / Current Price

Proceeds / Current Value

Gain / Loss (inc dividends)

Gain / Loss %

Science Systems

21/10/98

500

145.10

£741.14

£11.05

23/02/01

583.00

£2,892.40

£2,162.31

291.75%

ARM Holdings

20/01/99

700

72.80

£509.49

£0.00

16/03/01

308.20

£2,145.40

£1,635.91

321.09%

Workplace Technologies

18/05/99

450

167.00

£765.26

£2.70

05/10/99

228.00

£1,026.00

£263.44

34.42%

Total Systems

22/12/99

1000

79.50

£810.98

£0.00

08/06/00

90.00

£888.00

£77.02

9.50%

Parity[2]

29/12/99

289

338.75

£998.88

£11.77

17/08/01

44.00

£127.16

-£859.95

-86.09%

Cable & Wireless

12/01/00

80

950.25

£776.00

£25.20

21/01/02

303.62

£237.08

-£513.72

-66.20%

Tibbett & Britten

27/04/00

160

613.00

£997.70

£37.12

20/09/01

616.00

£973.60

£13.02

1.31%

Science Systems

03/05/00

53

540.00

£286.20

£0.41

23/02/01

583.00

£306.59

£20.80

7.27%

Delta

28/09/00

810

120.00

£988.86

£64.90

19/10/01

96.10

£766.41

-£157.55

-15.93%

Cable & Wireless

16/11/00

85

897.51

£788.69

£14.03

21/01/02

303.62

£251.89

-£522.77

-66.28%

Headlam

29/12/00

709

138.50

£998.88

£157.40

30/01/03

218.75

£1,538.94

£697.46

69.82%

Blick

16/05/01

437

224.80

£999.29

£63.37

18/06/02

180.80

£778.10

-£157.82

-15.79%

Logica

29/05/02

346

226.39

£799.23

£10.73

21/11/02

159.02

£538.21

-£250.29

-31.32%

Fulcrum Pharma

06/06/02

4625

12.65

£599.99

£9.25

23/06/03

7.55

£337.19

-£253.55

-42.26%

Mothercare

24/03/03

487

100.75

£499.10

£0.00

23/10/03

308.12

£1,488.54

£989.44

198.24%

Mothercare

24/03/03

488

100.75

£500.12

£0.00

15/04/04

320.62

£1,552.63

£1,052.51

210.45%

WH Smith[3]

19/12/03

206

275.00

£566.50

£26.78

22/04/04

359.76

£729.11

£189.39

33.43%

CodaSciSys

21/11/02

378

260.00

£999.71

£23.44

 

290.00

£1,084.20

£109.93

11.00%

Interior Services Group

22/09/03

772

153.00

£1,199.07

£59.83

 

154.00

£1,176.88

£39.64

3.31%

Parity

21/05/04

541

10.00

£54.10

£0.16

 

10.25

£43.45

-£8.49

-15.69%

Parity

21/05/04

9840

9.99

£999.94

£2.95

 

10.25

£996.60

£1.61

0.16%