Damien’s February 2018 review – Managing risk in the market chaos

9 min Read Published: 13 Feb 2018
The background to my portfolio

Back in March 2015 I decided to invest £50,000 of my own money using 80-20 Investor. The purpose was twofold, firstly to show how you can use 80-20 Investor to invest and outperform the market with only a few minutes effort every now and then. Secondly, no other investment commentator, journalist or research provider invests their own money for fear of failing. This is a sorry state of affairs and is precisely why I committed to openly running my own portfolio for 80-20 Investor members to see.

Since then I have periodically changed my portfolio using the fund suggestions provided by the 80-20 Investor algorithm and associated research. I always disclose the changes at the time they are made.

Performance update

February 2018 will live long in the memory of investors despite the month only being 12 days old. With equity markets tumbling, in some cases by more than 10%, I analysed what caused the equity market correction in last week's newsletter.

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