Performance overview
Value at beginning of month: $160,174.44
Value at end of month: $156,453.21
Month over month change: -2.32%
Total IRR: 33.77%
Related indices, monthly change
NASDAQ: +3.02%
IVV (iShares Core S&P 500): +3.81%
IBB (iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index): +5.09%
MXI (iShares Global Materials): +1.84%
VEGI (iShares MSCI Global Agriculture Producers): +1.02%
ICLN (iShares Clean Energy): +4.47%
Individual performances
No individual stock stood out with either an exceedingly negative or positive July performance. Most exhibited a small-to-medium loss of 10-20%. The companies that lost value span a range of applications, so there was no specific event that caused all of them to decrease in value. One event that did have an effect on a few companies, including the worst-performing company in July - CRISPR Therapeutics, was a new paper that asserted that CRISPR activity can cause widespread DNA damage in mammalian cells. This serves as a reminder that CRISPR technology is quite new on the scene, we have a lot left to learn about how it works, and companies based around this technology carry extra risk.
Changes made to index
None.
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Allocation as of July 27, 2018
