Follow Share Investor's Portfolio: Edition 2

It is about time we took another look at the Share Investor Portfolio. All this market hurly burly surely must have made a significant difference right? Last time we took a look on November 24 (or see portfolio below the current one).

When we compare it with the latest update from Thursday 5th Feb market close we can see that the portfolio is actually mostly marking time, if not slightly up.

The biggest gainer in the portfolio Sky City Entertainment, [SKC.NZ] is up and the biggest loser, Pumpkin Patch Ltd, [PPL.NZ] is even stevens.

I don't look at the Share Investor Portfolio all the time-apart from being depressing you all know that I am a long-term stockholder-but after a 2 month comparison things really don't seem that bad at all.

Share Investor Portfolio @ 5 February 2009

ASB Capital No.2	0.8	0	(0.00%)
Auckland International	1.9	0.02	(1.06%)
Briscoe Group Ltd	0.8	0.03	(3.90%)
Fisher & Paykel Health	3.29	-0.05	(-1.50%)
Fletcher Building	5.52	-0.01	(-0.18%)
Freightways Ltd	2.95	-0.05	(-1.67%)
Goodman Fielder Ltd	1.76	-0.01	(-0.56%)
Hallenstein Glasson	2.16	-0.04	(-1.82%)
Kiwi Income Prop	1.03	0	(0.00%)
Mainfreight Ltd	4	0.1	(2.56%)
Michael Hill Inte	0.53	0.02	(3.92%)
Postie Plus Group	0.3	0.01	(3.45%)
Pumpkin Patch Ltd	0.93	0.01	(1.09%)
Ryman Healthcare	1.37	0	(0.00%)
Sky City Entertainment	3.08	-0.01	(-0.32%)
Steel & Tube Holdings	3.06	-0.04	(-1.29%)
The Warehouse Group	3.6	-0.1	(-2.70%)

Share Investor Portfolio @ 24 November 2008

ASB Capital No.2	0.85	-0.007	(-0.82%)
Auckland International	1.66	0.05	(3.11%)
Briscoe Group Ltd	0.75	0	(0.00%)
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare	3.01	-0.04	(-1.31%)
Fletcher Building	5.55	0.13	(2.40%)
Freightways Ltd	2.9	-0.03	(-1.02%)
Goodman Fielder Ltd	1.8	0	(0.00%)
Hallenstein Glasson	2.28	0	(0.00%)
Kiwi Income Property	1.04	0	(0.00%)
Mainfreight Ltd	4.25	0.04	(0.95%)
Michael Hill International	0.57	0.02	(3.64%)
Postie Plus Group	0.3	0	(0.00%)
Pumpkin Patch Ltd	0.93	0.13	(16.25%)
Ryman Healthcare	1.45	0.05	(3.57%)
Sky City Entertainment	2.98	0.01	(0.34%)
Steel & Tube Holdings	2.7	0	(0.00%)
The Warehouse Group	3.6	0.03	(0.84%)

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**The two comparisons above are snapshots of performance for the Share Investor Portfolio on the given dates and have no relevance to its overall performance over the long-term.


You can follow the Share Investor Portfolio now by scrolling down the left hand side of any page of the blog and go to the "Share Investor's Portfolio" module. Each stock in my portfolio is listed there with a 20 min delayed feed of prices from Yahoo Finance and associated charts, news and NZX releases for the day.

See how badly or well it is doing.

You can also follow the daily market value of two individual shareholdings of mine, Sky City Entertainment and Pumpkin Patch, the best and worst performers in my portfolio respectively, just below the Share Investor's Portfolio module on the left-hand column of the blog. These update the dollar values of each stock and return they have given me thus far.


Related Share Investor reading

Why did you buy that stock?

Why did you buy that stock? [Fletcher Building Ltd]
Why did you buy that stock? [Freightways Ltd]
Why did you buy that stock? [Kiwi Income Property Trust]
Why did you buy that stock? [Hallenstein Glasson]
Why did you buy that stock? [Briscoe Group]
Why did you buy that stock? [Fisher & Paykel Healthcare]
Why did you buy that stock? [Pumpkin Patch Ltd]
Why did you buy that stock? [Ryman Healthcare]
Why did you buy that stock? [Michael Hill International]
Why did you buy that stock? [Mainfreight]
Why did you buy that stock? [The Warehouse]
Why did you buy that stock? [Goodman Fielder]
Why did you buy that stock? [Auckland Airport]
Why did you buy that stock? [Sky City Entertainment]

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c Share Investor 2008, 2009

Is another Auckland Airport bid likely under a business friendly Government?

Update: Read January 2012 rumour about Airport takeover 

Is Auckland International Airport set for M & A activity?

Its time for some not so idle speculation.

With the new National Government in place and the current relaxing of the rules around the RMA, the major planning law that has stopped economic development of New Zealand, we could expect to see developments in other areas of business in regards to relaxing laws and legislation to allow business to flow quicker and therefore more efficiently and more profitably.

A case in point that I would like to regurgitate is the fiasco that ended last year when it was vetoed by the then Labour administration, after over a year of political wrangling, the Auckland International Airport [AIA.NZ] sale saga.

Two suitors were vying for a slice of New Zealand's largest airport, first Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), then the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

Both these bids eventually failed.

Both DAE and CPPIB were knocked back for no other than petty political reasons.

After these two bids failed Lloyd Morrison, through his company Infratil [IFT.NZ] and a partnership with the NZ Super Fund, accumulated around 9% of AIA.

Morrison also owns a majority stake in Wellington Airport and was behind a failed proposal to build a second airport in Auckland.

The thing is, since the relaxing of relevant business legislation one might expect the National Government's attitude to allowing private enterprise to do business freely, therefore opening up the possibility of another bid for the Airport-either by one or both of the spurned suitors or from Infratil.

The only impediment is the obvious funding problems now that credit is difficult to obtain.

However, The one most likely to bid would be DAE, because it is backed by massive oil derived financial backing and because Auckland Airport would be strategic to its global plans to expand its infrastructure.

It is interesting to speculate and this scenario isn't that far fetched.

AIA shares have added around 10% over the last few weeks.


Disclosure: I own AIA shares

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c Share Investor 2009

Piece by piece, Nanny State is being dismantled

The removal by National of the Labour Party requirement for schools to be the food police is poetry to the ears and sending exactly the right message to pupils, teachers and parents.

Hopefully it is just the beginning of the end for the nanny state Labour so carefully engineered for us over the last 9 years.

It is the right and responsibility of the parents to give their children the right food, not lefty pollies, some of whom are too fat to move, let alone rub two braincells together in order to figure out that they are not surrogate parents to every man woman and child in our country.

This is the kind of warped thinking that the left specialise in: piece

Ms Kedgley said that arguing the children would still buy the products elsewhere was "a nonsense".

"Teenagers can buy cigarettes at the local dairy, but that doesn't mean we should allow them to sell them at school. NZ Herald.co.nz

A pie is hardly a cigarette Sue.

Bugger off, crawl into a sow crate and look after your own family, mine is fine.

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Labour's Legacy Lingers like a Lefty Leper

From the 2 billion in the hole that they left the ACC in, toady's power cuts -and more to come -from under investing in infrastructure, profligate spending by Government departments, tortured dead babies and a whole host of other crimes and not so mis-demeanour's, they just keep re-surfacing like that bad smell in the car that you just cant find.

Their regular law-breaking is another story.

Labour's mistakes are set to haunt us for a while yet.

While we haven't yet seen the worst of their last nine years surface, moves by the National Government so far have been in a good positive direction and will return some commonsense and positive direction for New Zealanders.

National Ministers who have already cut back on wasteful spending, administered failing schools and sacked useless health mangers have done well and sent the right message to the public-we ain't gonna waste your money-lets hope they continue.

Nice change.

Part of the stimulus package out today that gives tax breaks for business and yesterdays relaxing of the officious RMA law (a law that stopped power sector development) are a good start.

More careful planning is being done to tackle the current global recession and the economic mess that Labour left behind and calls by Phil Goff to spin meaningless rushed babble in the media to calm the masses is highly irresponsible-remember loose Labour talk on Telecom and Auckland Airport losing stockholders money?

Economic policy at this time must be planned well and targeted in the right way.

Spraying taxpayer cash around hoping that some of it sticks is no longer an option.

The rescue package rushed through Congress last year didn't work because it wasn't thought through carefully.

National is moving fast to obliterate the last 9 years of waste, lies, criminal behavior and plain arrogance and I have never seen a government move so rapidly before.

Lets hope they can make Labours last 3 terms a distant memory.

Good on ya Johnny.

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