Cory Diary : Why we should use XIRR for Performance Metric

Many may have heard of Time Weighted and Money Weighted. There continues to be confusion on what metric to use in performance measure. For retailers and typically investors I dare to say it has to be Money-weighted. I just read an article and reinforce my understanding that most users should only use Money-Weighted.

Time weighted by funds usage to me is quite misleading on performance over time if you read further down. Fortunately, when we says money weighted we are referring to XIRR in Excel.

Here's the table i extract from the article. (link )

Both methods have $1M injected by 2 parcels. Initial and mid June. Both losses 200K in the end. Logically performance should be negative at the end of the period. However TWR registered 146% good performance whereas XIRR registered -30%. Enough Said. Stick to XIRR (MWR) please.

If sales people tell you their fund performance is good, be wary. They could be using TWR. Is not intuitive for normal people but I wouldn't say they are wrong. LOL.


Cory
20190108

Cory Diary : Asset Tracker 2019-0108

Net Worth

With the beginning of the new year is time to assess my net worth trending. In this update, I have added "Non-Retirement line'. There is a good spike ending 2018 due to YEB and VB.  The losses in 2018 is mitigated by monthly income. This will expects to reduce in coming months due to local taxes and parent allowances.

 I should have done better in 2018 but I didn't. Nevertheless, my Assets continue to move up but at a slower pace with increasing expenses and poor market. Based on past trend, 2019 (touch wood) will be a good year for local investor. Why ?

I mentioned on the support lines that is strong. ( link ). Looks like so far they are held up pretty good. So my recent increase in STI Index and Reits help for now. I also did a quick swap on some of my SSB for Jan'19 allotment which is successful. Quite happy as is 0.5% rate up on top of starting 2.01% for year 1 which is almost doubled I had previously. Finally, in my many years of investment, after a year of negative returns, the year after is good positive. This happens 3 times for negative years ( Year 2008, 2011 and 2015) and 2018 will be the 4th !

Cory

20190108

Cory Diary : Investment Portfolio 2019-0104

Portfolio

As usual, my Investment Portfolio excludes tracking Pensions, SSB, Treasuries and Fixed Deposits. This setup is slightly higher up in Trusts/Reits allocation of 53%. I foresee waiting for market dips before increasing further. I have also reserved for a few positions for future acquisition in 2019.

There is nothing much to show on the bubble chart other than the yield expectation for start of year. A lot of overlapping. As the year past, this will probably scatter.

With 24 counters, seems I have my plate full. To most people this maybe too much. However I think is necessary for dividend diversification, and compensate for my selection weakness and emotions. Compared to my wife, she only has 2 stocks. One of them gained 4 times in 2 years. She is clearly on different worlds.

In 2019, I hope not to see drastic change in my portfolio.I have the same hope when I started last year. So ....


Cory
2019-0104