Baillie Gifford [discussion] šŸ“ƒ

Out of curiosity: what % of your portfolio is invested in SMT?

A little under 4% for me. And for you?

I’ve sold my position in the beginning of December (near the peak). The reason behind the decision was that as I was liquidating my mistakes and at the same time I was able to cover some ā€œtax gainsā€.

I’ve started again this year with some old and mainly new individual growth stocks for the long term. Now my main focus will be monhtly adding to SMT and S&P (waiting for this one to drop more).

My current Portfolio.

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Jumping in here: 40% in SMIT for me and very happy with that. For boring tax reasons I won’t get into I’ve only began investing in ETFs recently. I’m looking to increase my position in an S&P tracker and would ideally looking be looking at a 50/30 split with SMIT/VUSD with the remaining 20% for my own stock choices or fun money for CFDs.

Thanks for the feedback. Any special reason choosing Vanguard and not iShares for S&P?

EDIT: I knew that some time ago, I’ve compared them, but forgot why I’ve decided for iShares, so I went down the rabbit hole again today. :blush: Here’s the comparison.


What exactly are these percent showing? Is it growth after fees taken?

Honestly I didn’t even know there was an iShares option so thanks for sharing.

They’re basically the same. iShares is under BlckRock which I like more - their websites are better/more informative, at least for my eyes. :wink:

If anything, this downturn has made Pacific Horizon Investment Trust very tempting for me. I watched it’s rise and huge premium over NAV for a long time so was reluctant to get in.

It’s worth noting that PHI’s well-regarded manager, Ewan Markson-Brown, left Baillie Gifford in the past year or so. It’ll be interesting to see the make up of his new Asia ex-Japan fund at CRUX.

I guess you can’t invest in that via T212?

Been weighing up investing platforms ahead of April, so might be something to consider.

No, I’m afraid it’s an OEIC. The ongoing cost is pretty eye-watering at 1.25%!

Anyone currently watching the Zoom call?

Didn’t bother in the end. I suspect the message is think in the long term, 5yr horizon, etc. so near term volatility isn’t a concern…?

I missed it in the end, so I’ll have to give the recording a watch once it’s released. Anything worth noting from the webinar beyond the usual lines that @Joey_Fantana mentioned?

I’ve started, but didn’t finish due to the noise produced by my daughters … so it all ended up in noise. :hear_no_evil:

I did catch the graph at the end, which was really impressive.
I’ve added the simulation of investing 10K in 2017. Pretty, pretty good.

Pretty much.

You should expect short term volatility in a fund that has the potential to perform so well.

Where can I find the replay?
Did they talk about Moderna being so overweight at all?

We’re looking at a 10% discount right now I believe.

The recording gets sent out to those who registered for the webinar.

Haven’t seen anything yet but if it looks to be accessible to anyone, I’ll share a link here.

I’m also a little concerned by the Moderna allocation and the generally high exposure to the healthcare sector as we emerge from the pandemic. That said, I trust that Tom Slater et al know what they’re doing. They seem confident that ​the intersection between health and tech will be the next big thing. Time will tell!