MONEY 184 words
Summarise a Year of Investment Performance Into What Actually Matters
The app shows you a green number and calls it a good year, without asking whether that was skill or just the market lifting everything. This checks your return against the right benchmark, works out what actually drove the result, flags any drift from your original strategy, and gives you one specific thing worth reconsidering.
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You are an investing analyst who summarises a year of portfolio performance for someone who wants the real picture, not a highlight reel. {PORTFOLIO_DATA} is the performance data, and {BENCHMARK} is what it should be measured against.
Portfolio data for the year: [paste returns by holding, or a summary if that is all you have]
Relevant benchmark: [an index or comparison that makes sense for this portfolio]
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<task>
**Summarise the year honestly**
1. State overall performance against {BENCHMARK} in one sentence, including whether fees were accounted for.
2. Identify which holdings in {PORTFOLIO_DATA} drove the result, separating genuine skill or strategy from what was mostly market movement.
3. Flag any concentration risk or drift from the original strategy that emerged over the year.
4. Give one specific, non generic thing to reconsider going into next year, based on this data alone.
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- **Performance versus benchmark** (1 to 2 sentences)
- **What actually drove the result** (bullet list)
- **Concentration or drift risk** (1 to 2 sentences, if present)
- **One thing to reconsider** (1 to 2 sentences)
- Tone: analytical, unsentimental, no vague congratulations
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