I can hardly believe it’s been a month since I made my first investment with Vanguard. you can read more on why I started investing with vanguard here.
I’ll be first to admit that I signed in to check on my investment every day in the first week and then like magic it stopped crossing my mind ever so often. I guess this is why vanguard doesn’t have an app, so they can make it’s easy for the investor to really invest for the long term.
Key Facts
Before we dive into how well (or not) my portfolio has performed, below is a quick factsheet about my investments.
At the end of the process, I noticed I had £33.53 in cash and had in fact only invested £19,966.47. This is because I could only buy a whole unit/share on Vanguard. So, my £4,000 request for S&P 500 at a share price of £60.098 could only purchase 55 shares at a total cost of £3,966.47. Hence, £33.53 was returned in cash to my account.