In the same time my portfolio has risen from £112,800 to £131,363.84 a gain of around 16.5% over that same six month period.
No new money has been invested into the portfolio, but dividends have been re-invested and trading fees have been paid so the 16.5% is the total net return. To compare on a like for like basis the FTSE has probably paid out just under 2% in dividends over the period so we should round the 3.1% up to 5%.
The lion's share of the out-performance has come from house building companies, that I have now sold, and also from Lloyds Banking Group which I still own.
Barring a few holdings (Lloyds, Fidelity China, Polo) the majority of the portfolio is now positioned as an income fund. Hopefully this will have taken some volatility off the table, but at the same time the chances of large out-performances such as seen in the first 6 months will probably be reduced.
This is a breakdown of holdings as of today:
| Holdings | Amount | % |
| Cash | £4,146.45 | 3.16 |
| AstraZeneca | £12,874.43 | 9.80 |
| BAE Systems | £6,744.91 | 5.13 |
| BG Group | £4,206.07 | 3.20 |
| British American Tobacco | £13,989.32 | 10.65 |
| BT | £4,410.99 | 3.36 |
| Cairn Energy | £3,817.80 | 2.91 |
| F&C Commercial Property Trust | £5,430.08 | 4.13 |
| Fidelity China Special Situations | £6,800.44 | 5.18 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | £14,557.36 | 11.08 |
| Imperial Tobacco | £9,034.79 | 6.88 |
| Lloyds Banking Group | £20,599.13 | 15.68 |
| Murray International Investment Trust | £7,743.34 | 5.89 |
| Polo Resources | £1,104.20 | 0.84 |
| Tesco | £8,411.08 | 6.40 |
| Vodaphone | £7,493.45 | 5.70 |
| Total | £131,363.84 | 100.00 |