Thanks for the advice. Now if you could just advise me on 15 good shares that are cheap, I'll be eternally grateful!Buy say ten or 15 good shares when they are cheap and keep them forever.[My two cents]!
You've got two general camps
1. Value Stocks - Stocks that pay a steady dividend annually to share holders
2. Growth stocks - No dividends all about growth, think Tech stocks
The most popular ETF is the S&P 500 tracker, which just tracks the performance of the S&P500 index (largest 500 companies), it is usually the cheapest way to get broad based market exposure (concentrated in the US).
I have 10 shares that I track on the FTSE 100. Look at them every day, dip in and out of them on a regular basis. Read all their news, trading statements, outlook, RNS news etc. Majority of them are good dividend payers.Thanks for the advice. Now if you could just advise me on 15 good shares that are cheap, I'll be eternally grateful!
The only thing I would say is that Berkshire and JAM are US focused. What about European and Asian exposure or a proper global investment trust. The US can do badly for long periods too, Japan was the 1980s and way outperformed the US then
I have 10 shares that I track on the FTSE 100. Look at them every day, dip in and out of them on a regular basis. Read all their news, trading statements, outlook, RNS news etc. Majority of them are good dividend payers.
Today I will decide if I will sell one particular share or wait until it has it's trading statement tomorrow. Sometimes a share runs up in price before it's trading statement and then drops when it is announced. Buy the rumour sell the news type of thing.
I just decided the same last month, I split 3 ways. The third I choose was Allianz Technology Trust but if you're not feeling like investing in Tech you could try just 2 or some other IT.
Edit: I wanted to say that the Irish Department of Finance should be sacked after making the most tax positive way of diversified investing in Ireland involve paying The United Kingdom stamp duty directly.
Investment advice is said to be either 'useful bad advice or useless good advice'Thanks for the advice. Now if you could just advise me on 15 good shares that are cheap, I'll be eternally grateful!
Yes I used Interactive Brokers (IBKR) after reading that they are apparently the most robust broker with a very safe approach, and holding their own assets. I also got a referral link from a friend which gives the new signer 1% of their investments up to 100k USD back as IBKR's own stock. So why not get an instant 1% return I thought. My amount is 1/3 of yours FWIW. Still have my own mortgage to overpay and pension to use, I do like that it is much simpler than having to deal with deemed disposal / higher tax % and also tracking each and every deposit when investing in ETFs.Interesting. What platform are you using? I'm thinking of going with Interactive Brokers, maybe just because they seem to be running a long time and are very established. There's something a little unnerving to handing over 250K into an online account having never actually had any dealings with the people! Any money I've made in the past, I've always been able to look the person in the eye when I'm doing a deal!
Yes I used Interactive Brokers (IBKR) after reading that they are apparently the most robust broker with a very safe approach, and holding their own assets. I also got a referral link from a friend which gives the new signer 1% of their investments up to 100k USD back as IBKR's own stock. So why not get an instant 1% return I thought. My amount is 1/3 of yours FWIW. Still have my own mortgage to overpay and pension to use, I do like that it is much simpler than having to deal with deemed disposal / higher tax % and also tracking each and every deposit when investing in ETFs.
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