Damien’s alternative risk portfolios update – December 2023

It's been over 18 months since I last reviewed the performance of the alternative risk versions of my £50k portfolio. In a recent Chatterbox question one 80-20 Investor member asked about whether I'd researched combining the higher risk funds within my portfolio with the findings from my article "Navigating market tops and bottoms". Previously I had tested using the 10 month moving average indicator on the higher risk version of my portfolio (which contains both medium and higher risk funds) with limited success. It is an interesting idea to apply the indicator to just the higher risk funds, but I will need to look at it in more detail in a separate article. In the meantime, I thought the question was a useful prompt to review the performance of my alternative risk portfolios.

Quick recap on the alternative portfolios

The higher and lower risk Damien's portfolios were launched back in April 2018.