capital gains on our Income Portfolio fail to shine as Brexit fears take their toll

Questor Income Portfolio: we have a heavy domestic bias, which is doing us no favours when it comes to share prices, although our income is holding up nicely

As it is the first Friday of the month we publish today our performance table for the Income Portfolio. It tells a familiar story: we are achieving our income goal of 5pc annually but capital performance is less inspiring: we are nursing annual losses of 1.6pc (remember, all figures in the table are annualised).

Much of the cause is our portfolio’s bias towards domestic stocks, shunned by many investors because of Brexit. Among the biggest sufferers are Royal Mail (down 51pc since our tip) and National Grid (down 20pc), which are additionally…