Income and Expenditure
Expenditure was $3,036 ($A5,015). Car repairs cost $A550. We bought a barbeque ($A365) and there were about $A260 of medical expenses which were partly refunded by Medicare in February. And the car depreciated another $A500. Before taking into account foreign exchange movements non-retirement accounts gained and retirement accounts lost money. They both lost in USD terms after taking into account the change in exchange rates.
Net Worth
Net worth fell by $17,337 to $188,160 or in Australian Dollar terms rose by $A735 to $295,060.
Investment Performance
USD returns were -8.92% vs. -8.51% or -8.43% for the MSCI and SPX respectively. In AUD terms we returned -0.19%.
All asset classes lost apart from hedge funds, which gained massively mainly due to the delisting of EBI as EAIT. Returns for both EAIT and the Man managed futures fund are now going to be estimated at the time of writing these accounts reports and adjusted later in the month (mid-month and month's end respectively) after the actual returns are available.
Using my preferred time series method, portfolio beta to the MSCI index was 1.31 with an annual alpha of 1.9%. Other methods now give a negative alpha.
Asset Allocation
At the end of October the allocation was 51% in "passive alpha", 57% in "beta", 0% was allocated to trading, 4% to industrial stocks, 5% to liquidity, 4% to other assets, and we were borrowing 21%. Due to the use of leveraged funds, our actual exposure to stocks was 98% of net worth. When we take into account borrowing by the leveraged funds we are invested in, borrowing per dollar of equity was 60 cents. Looking at asset classes:
Shifts in the allocation are mainly due to relative performance this month. We moved further towards our long-term asset allocation, though not for a good reason, but mainly because Australian stocks underperformed and we are overweight in them.
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