Cory Diary : My retirement just got pushed back

Kind of shocking headline. One of my past lovers arrived. ( ... here's your Karma ...)
39 weeks and more to come but is all worth it, and I have done my part for my country. ;)

Welcome to the family ! My best investment returns. Priceless !

Cory
2019-0111

Cory Diary : Expense Ratio

This may have gone around for few times ... . To win in the long run, expense ratio probably matters. That's one reason why Index or Mutual funds are good. If we search the web, is defined as "The expense ratio is calculated by dividing a fund’s operating expenses by the average total dollar value for all the assets within the fund."

For 2018 my Expense Ratio is 0.62%. That's low relatively to fund however for retail investors this probably high. Really high for a dividend player. The number of trades for 2018 is 124. That's lower than year 2017 so I am in the right direction. One of the reason we see high number of trades is due to breaking down the amount I trade into different days to spread it.

I don't have hard rule on not do a trade due to expense as I am risking the ship for a sampan. Rather I need to do a more calculated decision on purpose rather on hunch when doing multiples for a position. Market has been going up and up. And I have yet done a single trade this year. Well done Cory !  ;)


Cory

2019-0109

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