Reply to: Investments

[Lucifer Box]

Hookers, cocaine and a couple of bottles of Cristal is the best investment any contractor worth his salt can make.

[MarillionFan]

Commercial Property

Depends what you want to do.

Ive got a spare 100k floating about as well. But I am now looking at commercial property - preferably retail in my case.

But if you want my advice, you want a hotel honeymoon suite, a couple of jars of vaseline and as many girls from Huggy Bear. Oh Yeah!

[n5gooner]

I like Fairy Liquid Assets too.

hands that are soft and gentle........and get washed after going to the bog.

[sb5spa]

Investments

I like Fairy Liquid Assets too.

[n5gooner]

well buy some permium bonds, you get about a 4% return on them, thats the first 30k dealt with, and you can trade them in. put the rest in 30/30/10k chunks into different high interest 60 day accounts.

[Bagpuss]

how quick do you want to be able to liquidate / access it ?


Milan.

I like fairly liquid assets (you never know), but I know this tends to equal lower return. It's obvious housing will be a poor investment in the short to medium term.

[milanbenes]

how quick do you want to be able to liquidate / access it ?


Milan.

[Bagpuss]

Bagpuss,

how much is a large pile of wad ?

just to put things into perspective

Milan.

About 100k, not a large amount by some standards but large to me,would like to get more than <=4k a year from it.

[milanbenes]

Bagpuss,

how much is a large pile of wad ?

just to put things into perspective

Milan.

[Bagpuss]

Lesson number 1: do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Lesson number 2: only invest what you can afford to loose

Lesson number 3: Spread the risk (investment classes, and spread within class)

Lesson number 4: Income or growth

Biggest lesson: understand the risk (potential downside)

The part of my investment portfolio that is doing well at the moment is the (UT) Jupiter Emerging European Opportunities Trust

I invested just before the eastern block countries joined the EU

50% of the fund is in Russia (commodities e.g. oil, gas, mobile phones)

Russia is one of the cheapest markets in the world, and Putin is trying to clean it up and give it some credability (post YUKOS) so may still have some way to run.

I am waiting for the commodity bubble to burst and then get back in.

Gold is rising quite well.

I was in the (UT) JPMF Natural resources that did quite well and probably dipped out to early.

Decided to stop holding individual company shares too risky, especially technology companies e.g. look at the graph for Microsoft for the last 2 years.

Other funds that I have going well are (Investment Trusts):

JPMF India
Scottish Oriental Trust (asian smaller companies - growth)

Japan is just starting to take off after years in the doldrums, and recent political reform, the hype in terms of future potential is just starting. If I had to invest my 7K isa next week and was looking for a bit of a flutter, I might start here with say : (UT) Schroder Tokyo

Got these investment rules off an old retired bod on Motley fool, not sure how accurate they are:

Recession & low inflation: invest in bonds
Recession & high inflation: invest in property and commodities
Sluggish growth & low inflation: invest in equities and bonds
Sluggish growth and high inflation: invest in property and commodities
Faster growth and low inflation: invest in equities
Faster growth and high inflation: invest in property and commodities

Investments can be affected by different cycles - the rise and fall, bubble, curve etc

Please note: never invest what you cannot afford to loose and allways take independent advice.

Re the inflation and investing strategy. The governemnt defined level of infaltion excludes house price inflation and the cost of borrowing, so it could be a tricky strategy given that the real level of inflation is hidden

[The Late, Great JC]

You don't know?

Basically there is a high probability of a severe chair throwing storm in microsoftland later this evening all because of what Sun and Google are going to announce in a few minutes at a joint press conference.

Probability? Well, there's certainly egg on the face of a certain "Dark Prince of Bulltulip" now then...

Threaded, where do you get your info? Oh, yeah, TheRegister and Slashdot, just like the rest of us.

[ancient]

Balanced Portfolio

Lesson number 1: do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Lesson number 2: only invest what you can afford to loose

Lesson number 3: Spread the risk (investment classes, and spread within class)

Lesson number 4: Income or growth

Biggest lesson: understand the risk (potential downside)

The part of my investment portfolio that is doing well at the moment is the (UT) Jupiter Emerging European Opportunities Trust

I invested just before the eastern block countries joined the EU

50% of the fund is in Russia (commodities e.g. oil, gas, mobile phones)

Russia is one of the cheapest markets in the world, and Putin is trying to clean it up and give it some credability (post YUKOS) so may still have some way to run.

I am waiting for the commodity bubble to burst and then get back in.

Gold is rising quite well.

I was in the (UT) JPMF Natural resources that did quite well and probably dipped out to early.

Decided to stop holding individual company shares too risky, especially technology companies e.g. look at the graph for Microsoft for the last 2 years.

Other funds that I have going well are (Investment Trusts):

JPMF India
Scottish Oriental Trust (asian smaller companies - growth)

Japan is just starting to take off after years in the doldrums, and recent political reform, the hype in terms of future potential is just starting. If I had to invest my 7K isa next week and was looking for a bit of a flutter, I might start here with say : (UT) Schroder Tokyo

Got these investment rules off an old retired bod on Motley fool, not sure how accurate they are:

Recession & low inflation: invest in bonds
Recession & high inflation: invest in property and commodities
Sluggish growth & low inflation: invest in equities and bonds
Sluggish growth and high inflation: invest in property and commodities
Faster growth and low inflation: invest in equities
Faster growth and high inflation: invest in property and commodities

Investments can be affected by different cycles - the rise and fall, bubble, curve etc

Please note: never invest what you cannot afford to loose and allways take independent advice.

[MarillionFan]

Doing well.

Well it was doing OK. Sales are down but I make a little off Wholesaling, about £500 pm during the year on the shop and about an extra £15/£20k a year at Chrimbo (depending on Chrimbo)

Until recently when the new town manager for the landlords decided to increase my rent from £10k to £25 by giving me notice on my licence to be out at the end of October, thus forcing me to sign the new agreement.

So do the maths. I just lost £15k a year in profit. Now its not worth it vs time.

B@stards.

and yes, before you ask it was legal due to a particular clause.

[Bagpuss]

You can have my shop for £7.89 and a packet of Quavers (Half eaten).

I thought that was doing well?

[MarillionFan]

Retail

You can have my shop for £7.89 and a packet of Quavers (Half eaten).