Where I Invest

My investment capital is distributed between a portfolio of Peer to Peer Lenders, and a Growth Portfolio of stock, bonds, REIT’s and gold. The investments are low maintenance, low to medium risk, with very reasonable risk/return ratios. Investments require at maximum 2 hours per month to maintain once they are set up.

Peer to Peer Lending Portfolio

Returns on the Peer to Peer Portfolio are between 4% and 15% (current actual returns are available here), with lower to medium risk Peer to Peer investments. I use Peer to Peer Lending because returns on investments are far superior to the returns I can get from banks or government bonds.

Read more about my Peer to Peer Portfolio and returns.

Growth Portfolio

The Growth Portfolio is time tested over more than 20 years of actual investment. It is backtested through similar asset-class backtesting for almost 50 years. It has produced an annual average return of almost 10% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), with an average drawdown of around 9% and a maximum drawdown of 14.75% in the 2008 financial crisis.

The above is just a general overview of the assets used. Go here to see how the Growth Portfolio is constructed.

Portfolio Comparison

Below is a comparison of how my Personal Growth Portfolio compares to other popular portfolios over the last few years. As you can see, the % returns and drawdowns are better than the original Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio.

Portfolio 1 is my current personal portfolio allocation.

Portfolio 2 is a 50/50 mix of stocks and bonds.

Portfolio 3 is the original Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio mix. Cash has been left out, as I think that skews it to the downside unfairly.

The S&P ETF is there as a representation of the US Stock Market Baseline.

BALANCES shown are just there to show growth as an example. They are not actual portfolio values.

Portfolio Returns