Re: Portfolio Tracking Services

Robert Inder wrote:

Ronald Raygun writes:

It can be more satisfying to have something tangible than something
virtual tucked away inside a machine. For the virtual, if you must
have it, I would recommend a plain old text file, which you just
edit with your favourite text editor. Or if you want something a
little sexier, a spreead*** should fit the bill.

Hmmmm...

But as I understand it, these services will do things like
automatically value the portfolio based on current fund or share
prices, and give you sector analyses and... well, I don't know what
else...

Neither do I, and I don't think I'd want to know. I'm not sure
I'd want to trust such people to know what investments I hold.

A spread*** won't do anything like that without work...

You don't really need all those bells and whistles, and if you're
interested enough in how well your investments are doing, then you
should jolly well be bothered enough to take the trouble to look
them up in your local newspaper once every few weeks.

Besides, surely not all of your investments are capable of being
valued by information freely available, for example because their
underlying portfolios have flexible compositions, and so you need
to rely on information the fund managers send you, as infrequently
as once a year, to get anything meaningful.

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