August 2015: Portfolio Update

Another fall in the month and year, dragging both my portfolio and the FTSE100 into negative territory for the year. My portfolio the better of the two following strong dividends from National Grid.

Merchant Adventurer's Index
			Forecast	1 month	YTD	56 mth
	Price	% holding	Div. yield	% gain	% gain	% gain
R-R	743.50p	19.96%	3.20%	-6.36%	-14.54%	13.26%
Aviva	483.80p	12.99%	4.36%	-6.96%	-0.14%	33.72%
National Grid	860.10p	14.02%	5.21%	0.82%	-6.32%	55.53%
BP	360.50p	8.32%	7.25%	-8.84%	-12.29%	-14.81%
Apple **	$112.76	8.51%	1.51%	-5.50%	3.72%	101.76%
IG Group	722.58p	4.82%	4.33%	-3.46%	0.50%	51.42%
Imperial Tobacco	3159.00p	3.29%	4.45%	-6.12%	11.39%	39.84%
William Hill	360.00p	3.04%	3.52%	-11.09%	-0.69%	95.47%
BAT	3479.00p	2.45%	4.49%	-8.47%	-0.60%	3.72%
Vodafone	226.70p	2.30%	5.20%	-6.26%	1.82%	-10.15%
Microsoft **	$43.93	2.18%	2.32%	-4.37%	-3.98%	59.86%
Banco Santander	406.13p	1.76%	3.34%	-7.96%	-25.41%	-25.58%
General Electric **	$24.82	1.95%	3.16%	-3.32%	-0.28%	65.31%
BAE Systems	452.20p	1.67%	4.63%	-5.93%	-4.19%	37.03%
Barrat Dev.	639.50p	2.11%	3.61%	0.71%	78.90%	78.90%
SSE	1471.00p	1.50%	6.23%	-2.90%	-9.31%	20.08%
Verizon **	2997.24p	1.45%	4.11%	-0.03%	-0.14%	7.99%
Centrica	243.20p	1.13%	5.16%	-8.74%	-12.83%	-26.66%
BG Group	994.60p	2.57%	2.25%	-8.96%	14.98%	-19.07%
Cash		3.98%	0.00%
		100.00%	3.95%
				1 month	YTD	56 mth
Virtual Portfolio gain (incl. Divs)
- 1 month gain   2137.23	2037.77			-4.65%
- YTD gain         1644.62	2037.77				-2.51%
- 56 month gain 1264.20	2037.77					61.19%
- 68 month gain 1000.00	2037.77					103.78%
Unit Price - £	2.03777	(Starting price - £1)
FTSE gain (excl. Dividends)
- 1 month gain   6696.3	6247.90			-6.70%
- YTD gain         5897.81	6247.90				-4.85%
- 56 month gain 5971.01	6247.90					4.64%
- 68 month gain 5412.88	6247.90					15.43%

Transactions:
05/08/2015 Div Verizon @ 29.95p per share 05/08/2015 Div Vodafone @ 7.62p per share 05/08/2015 Div Banco Santander @ 2.8p per share 05/08/2015 Div National Grid @ 28.16p per share 17/08/2015 Div Apple @ 28.09p per share