Portfolio analysis

Free portfolio analysis: what is really inside your portfolio?

Import your portfolio, check its structure, measure your real return — Planafolio shows concentration risk, costs, and the actual country and currency split behind your ETFs.

Basics

What is a portfolio analysis?

A portfolio analysis is a systematic review of your investment account. It answers four questions: What are you actually invested in? What risk are you carrying? What does it cost you per year? And what return is genuinely left at the end? Your broker's overview shows only a slice of that — usually a list of positions with a current price and a plus or minus next to it.

The blind spot appears wherever funds are involved. Two ETFs with entirely different names can hold largely the same companies. A portfolio that feels "globally diversified" can in fact depend by half on a single country and a single currency. That only becomes visible once you break the funds open and add up their real constituents across every position — which is exactly what a portfolio analysis does.

A free portfolio analysis therefore does not replace investment advice. It provides the numbers you need before you can decide anything at all — and shows whether your portfolio is doing what you set it up to do.

What you see

What a portfolio analysis reveals

Six questions a plain holdings list leaves open.

Concentration risk

Which position, country and sector dominate your portfolio? The analysis computes your largest single holding, your home bias against the world market, and sector concentration — across all portfolios and ETFs at once.

Expense ratio (TER)

Your funds' ongoing charges are weighted by portfolio share into one overall expense ratio. The published TERs of common core ETFs are on file; positions without a stored expense ratio are left out rather than estimated.

Real return

XIRR and TTWROR answer two different questions: one is how the money you put in was compounded, the other how good the investment itself was — regardless of when you paid in or out.

Currency exposure

How much of your wealth rides on the dollar? Foreign-currency exposure is derived from the fund look-through, not from the trading currency of the ETF share — the two often have little to do with each other.

Countries & sectors

Every recognised ETF is resolved into the countries and sectors it actually holds. "1 × world ETF" turns into a real map of your portfolio instead of a single bar.

ETF overlap

Two funds, one market: the overlap analysis shows which of your ETFs largely duplicate each other — the most common reason a portfolio looks broader than it is.

The result

What the output looks like

Health score and fund look-through — the two building blocks the analysis rests on.

Portfolio health score

A score from 0 to 100 built from five factors: diversification, expense ratio, risk/return, concentration risk and currency risk. Factors without a solid data basis are left out rather than guessed.

Real fund look-through

Your world ETF doesn't count as one position on one exchange — it is split into the countries and sectors it genuinely holds.

Illustrative figures — your own analysis is based solely on your own portfolio data.

Measuring returns

TTWROR or XIRR: which return is the real one?

"How did my portfolio do?" has two correct answers, and they don't contradict each other. The time-weighted return (TTWROR) ignores deposits and withdrawals and measures only how the invested capital developed. That makes it the fair figure for comparing against an index or someone else's portfolio: a large deposit right before a strong month doesn't flatter it.

The money-weighted return (XIRR, the internal rate of return) does the opposite. It accounts for the timing of every single payment and answers how the money you actually committed was compounded. If you invest regularly, this is the more honest personal number — but it is not comparable to an index.

Only both figures side by side give the full picture: if XIRR is well below TTWROR, the timing of your deposits was the cause, not the investment. Planafolio computes both separately and never mixes them.

How to

A portfolio analysis in four steps

From the broker export to the finished review.

  1. 1. Bring the data together

    Get every account into one place: via your broker's CSV export, as a PDF statement, or through automatic synchronisation. Only once everything sits together are allocation and return correct across your whole portfolio — one account left out skews every figure.

  2. 2. Review the structure

    Look at the split by asset class, country, currency and sector — with the fund look-through, not by portfolio rows. Anything you didn't expect is worth a second look: a country weight you never consciously chose, or a sector arriving from several ETFs at once.

  3. 3. Judge risk and cost

    Work through your largest position, home bias, ETF overlaps, foreign-currency share and weighted expense ratio. Volatility, maximum drawdown and a crisis stress test (2008, 2020, 2022) additionally show how your current mix would have behaved in bad phases.

  4. 4. Put the return in context

    Read XIRR and TTWROR side by side and hold the time-weighted return against a benchmark such as MSCI World, S&P 500 or DAX. After that you know whether anything needs doing — and where.

For most portfolios one thorough analysis a year is enough, for instance at the turn of the year when the tax paperwork comes around anyway.

Free & Pro

What the free portfolio analysis covers

Included in the free plan

The account is permanently free and needs no payment details. Included: one portfolio with unlimited positions, import via CSV, PDF and automatic broker synchronisation, the full value history, the XIRR return, your portfolio allocation, the dividend calendar and the tax overview.

What belongs to Pro

The in-depth analysis view — health score, ETF look-through by country, sector and currency, TTWROR, benchmark comparison, risk metrics, concentration analysis, ETF overlap and the crisis stress test — is part of Pro at €7.99 per month or €79 per year. I'd rather say that here than behind a signup form.

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Frequently asked

Questions about portfolio analysis

The portfolio analysis is an evaluation of your own data for orientation — not investment advice and not a buy or sell recommendation.

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