Show HN: Finarky – Portfolio Tracker with Personal Rate of Return
finarky.comA minimalist portfolio tracker that calculates your Personal Rate of Return (using Internal Rate of Return, IRR).
Although often missing in more featured and complex apps, the Personal Rate of Return is essential to know if you're on track to meet your investment goals, compare the performance of your different investments, or with other people's portfolios without revealing any specifics.
This is a side-project.
Built with ClojureScript and Krell/Reagent/React Native. Why is that IRR (or PRR for the matter) is not calculated in most investment tracking apps ? I don't know, but this Morningstar article from 2013 says... "Even though personal rates of return are crucial numbers for any investor trying to reach a goal, few fund families provide these returns on investors' account statements. Why not? Many fund companies brush off any suggestions for improved disclosure by arguing that providing more information would only confuse investors, or by pointing to surveys showing that shareholders are satisfied with the status quo."
https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/65362/understanding-yo... In any case, for me, the PRR is the best measure I know to understand how my portfolio is performing. I don't think it's confusing... if my PRR is 10%, it means that a fixed-rate account with a 10% APY would have provided the same returns when applying to it the same cash inflows and outflows as my investments. I think that effectively communicates the performance of the portfolio (and lets me compare it with other portfolios, or particular investments).