I always had trouble with planning my finances for the future which always changed or simply wasn’t clear to me. This article presents that conundrum in a beautiful way.
Most of us are monks about some things and hedonists about others. Unless we’re tangled up in thinking we need to impress others with our possessions.
The Monk or Hedonist question is hard because what impressed you then might not impress you now. And what you appreciate now, you did not back then. This holds for the future too. So, how do you conclude what you will want in a decade or more?
My journey with Aditya Birla Sun Life MNC Fund completes four years and continues in its fifth year. Nothing much has happened here except that I have now paused my SIP in the fund considering its underperformance.
Is this a regular or a direct plan? It’s both. I started with a regular plan with help of MFD and then from Sep-2020 I started investing in the direct plan as well. The charts below are for both of them combined. My investment is equally split between the regular and direct plan.
Did I beat the Nifty 50 Index? No. Since last two and half years, my investment has underperformed the Nifty 50 Index.
Did I at least beat other similar thematic funds? No. As this was a thematic fund I decided to compare with other funds in the same category. For this I chose SBI Global Magnum Fund. I wanted to understand if the underperformance was across all the funds in the category. But my investment has underperformed even SBI Magnum Global Fund. In fact, SBI Magnum Global Fund managed to beat the Nifty 50 Index.
Am I going to continue investing in it? No, my SIP is paused.
Considering my SIP is paused am I planning to redeem my investment? Yes, but not right away. I am hoping that someday—someday—it beats Nifty 50 Index or at least comes up with XIRR of 12% for me to sell.
In the first few months of my new role, I had a lot of information to get up to speed on, including figuring how to roll over and acquiring a firm grasp on object permanence. Now, I have almost a year of experience completing my primary responsibilities — like sleeping, pooping, and communicating with individuals who are not fluent in my native tongue, and as I’m sure you’ve heard, all my performance reviews are glowingly positive.
I am constantly revered and told that I am “such a big girl” and “so big” and “a sweet, big girl” and yet every time I attempt to partake in certain activities alongside my older, male colleague I hear “that is not for you, Reesey,” or “that’s not for babies.” There you have my dilemma.
Is this a regular or a direct plan? It’s both. I started with a regular plan with help of MFD and then from Sep-2022 I started investing in the direct plan as well. The charts below are for both of them combined. Regular plan holds 86% of my investment while the direct plan holds the remaining 14%.
Did I beat the Nifty 50 Index? No. Since last one and half years, my investment has underperformed the Nifty 50 Index and the performance gap seems to be getting larger.
Am I going to continue investing in it? Yes, at least for next one year via the SIP route.
Did I make any lumpsum purchases in-between? No
Am I worried about the front running case? Yes. But with SEBI and Axis MF acting on it I have decided to continue.
For me, any investment that beats Nifty 50 Index is good. And Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund has beaten Nifty 50 Index nearly 100% of times during the last four years. And that too with a regular plan.
However since Oct-2021, the profits have remained more or less flat even though my SIPs have continued. And this has impacted my XIRR which is now down from its high of 45+% to 15%. It now very close to getting beaten by the Nifty 50 Index.
I have been incredibly lucky with my investment in Polycab till now. Till now. The keyword here is ’till now’. I don’t know what the future holds but if past is any indication—Divi’s Laboratories and L&T Infotech—I will probably make a big investment at peak, and the stock starts its downward trajectory erasing all my fantabulous gains.
Polycab has been a star performer since last 4 years. Not only my returns have beaten Nifty 50 Index, my profits alone also have beaten Nifty 50 Index. The dividend yield at cost also has been above average, in my opinion. But while the returns are great but invested amount is small so it does not make enough impact in my portfolio.
Having a stock like Polycab is both boon and a bane. Boon because profits. Duh! Bane because I never have the courage to sell and book profits. What if it goes up even more? Every time I repeat to myself—I am a long term investor.
Let’s see what happens after five years. 🤞
Investment through the years
Returns
The dividend yield at cost mentioned in the chart above, is yield at the date at which I received the dividends. Another way to look at dividend yield is to calculate it for the fiscal year.
Fiscal year
Dividend yield at cost
2019-20
1.86%
2020-21
0.00%
2021-22
1.45%
2022-23
1.27%
2023-24 *
0.00%
* Data as of 1-May-2023
To calculate the dividend yield at cost in the above table I use the below formula.
(Total amount of dividends received in a fiscal year ÷ Total amount invested at the end of fiscal year) × 100
Six years ago when I started investing in Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd, it was called Motherson Sumi Systems Limited. Over last six years the company split its wiring business into another entity called Motherson Sumi Wiring India Limited and renamed itself to Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.
When Motherson Sumi Wiring Ltd got demerged, the historical share price of Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd got adjusted to remove Motherson Sumi Wiring Ltd’s valuation (not sure if I am using the right terminology here, I am no financial expert). With this adjustment I cannot reliably calculate how my investment has performed historically. If I try to plot my returns, then for the first five years I am in deep red because I bought at a price which included Motherson Sumi Wiring India Limited; but the historical price does not include it (not sure if I made any sense here, again… I am no financial expert).
So rather than the journey I will focus on the data as of today. But before that, lets have a look at the key events during the last six years.
Date
Event
Jul 2017 from Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd
Bonus 1:2
Oct 2018 from Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd
Bonus 1:2
Feb 2022
Motherson Sumi Wiring Ltd demerges with 1:1 ratio i.e. one equity share of Motherson Sumi Wiring Ltd for every one equity share of Motherson Sumi Systems Limited
Sep 2022 from Motherson Sumi Wiring Ltd
Bonus 2:5
Sep 2022
Motherson Sumi Systems Limited renames itself to Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd
Oct 2022 from Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd
Bonus 1:2
Now back to returns as of today. For my calculation I am using my holdings of both Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd and Motherson Sumi Wiring Ltd.
Investment through the years
Returns
After six years, I am at a loss with my investment. Considering the bonus shares issued I thought my dividend yield at cost would be impressive. Alas, I was wrong. Or my understanding of bonus shares was wrong. I will have to Google ‘splits vs bonus’.
Fiscal year
Dividend yield at cost
2016-17
0.00%
2017-18
0.35%
2018-19
0.52%
2019-20
1.65%
2020-21
0.00%
2021-22
0.83%
2022-23
0.83%
2023-24 *
0.00%
* Data as of 25-Apr-2023
Profit Percent
My investment’s profit (or should I say loss): -2.5%
Had I invested in Nifty 50 Index fund I would have a profit of 64.5%. 🤦
XIRR
My investment’s XIRR: -0.62%
Had I invested in Nifty 50 Index fund my XIRR would be 12.32%. 🤦
I had initially invested in Nerolac to diversify my investment in paints—I had earlier invested in Asian Paints. But Nerolac’s continued underperformance has made me put it in my ‘ignore’ watchlist. I have small money invested it but it is in perennial loss so let me ignore it, not look at it and it might simply go away.
I have invested 7 times across these five years.
The company pays dividends regularly and my dividend yield at cost for a year has always been hovering around 0.5%. Except for last fiscal year, 2022-23, where it was just 0.17%.
My investment in Nerolac has never been able to beat the Nifty 50 Index. Except for that one week in Jan-2021. Since last two years, the underperformance has simply widened.
Investment through the years
Returns
The dividend yield at cost mentioned in the graph above, is yield at the date at which I received the dividends. Another way to look at dividend yield is to calculate it for the fiscal year.
Fiscal year
Dividend yield at cost
2018-19
0.52%
2019-20
0.52%
2020-21
0.49%
2021-22
0.53%
2022-23
0.17%
To calculate the dividend yield at cost in the above table I use the below formula.
(Total amount of dividends received in a fiscal year ÷ Total amount invested at the end of fiscal year) × 100
Five years seems like a good amount of investment duration in a stock. But considering more than three-quarters of that investment came in last two fiscal years, my investment in Supreme Industries is still very young. Here are my key takeaways.
I have invested 11 times in Supreme Industries across these fives years.
The company regularly pays dividends for the fiscal year 2022-23 by dividend yield at cost was 1.13%.
With the current XIRR of 19% I am conformably beating Nifty 50 index whose return would have been a measly 7%. Yay!
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, sent the stock in a downward trajectory and I saw it go in negative for the first time since the Covid-19 market crash. But I was able to accumulate some more of it during this time.
Investment through the years
Returns
The dividend yield at cost mentioned in the graph above, is yield at the date at which I received the dividends. Another way to look at dividend yield is to calculate it for the fiscal year.
Fiscal year
Dividend yield at cost
2018-19
0.75%
2019-20
2.14%
2020-21
0.42%
2021-22
0.65%
2022-23
1.13%
To calculate the dividend yield at cost in the above table I use the below formula.
(Total amount of dividends received in a fiscal year ÷ Total amount invested at the end of fiscal year) × 100
Color surrounds us in nature, and we re-create it with pigments. You can think of pigments as pulverized minerals, heavy metals, or chemicals that we swish into oil and spread over a canvas or car: Cobalt becomes blue; ochre red; cadmium yellow. “But nature has a very different way of creating color than we do,” Chanda says. Some of nature’s most vivid looks—the kind worn by peacocks, beetles, and butterflies—do their thing without pigment.
Those colors come from topography. Submicroscopic landscapes on the outer surfaces of peacock feathers, beetle shells, and butterfly wings diffract light to produce what’s known as structural color. It’s longer-lasting and pigment-free. And to scientists, it’s the key to creating paint that is not only better for the planet but might also help us live in a hotter world.
