Buying Shares, for numnuts
- Thread starter graystoke4
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should know how this works by no
Royal Mail is certainly not something I would invest in.
But in answer to the question, take a look at:
https://www.ajbell.co.uk/
But in answer to the question, take a look at:
https://www.ajbell.co.uk/
mandryka
pfm Member
Are you entitled to this scheme? That would use up £1K of your £10K this year, you could decide at your leisure what to do with the remaining £9K
Royal_Mail_SIP_Partnership_Matching_booklet July 2018 FINAL.pdf (myroyalmail.com)
colasblue
pfm Member
The problem with RM is that if it screws up much more the government will have no option other than to re-nationalize it, at which point any shareholders will be right royally stuffed!
Have more sense sir!
Hargreaves Lansdown is a very good platform for share trading generally and you could set up an equity ISA to hold the shares if you haven't already used your 2022 limit, but a FTSE250 Index tracking fund would be a better bet IMHO.
Have more sense sir!
Hargreaves Lansdown is a very good platform for share trading generally and you could set up an equity ISA to hold the shares if you haven't already used your 2022 limit, but a FTSE250 Index tracking fund would be a better bet IMHO.
graystoke4
pfm Member
+i have looked at H & L, need to call them next week , thanks
The UK government can have the RoyalMail post/mail part, shareholders will be very glad, employees will be very glad. Royal Mail is a large negative value deducted from the GLS value to get to the IDS valuation. The Parcelforce part of RoyalMail probably is worth the IDS share price now, if only the government would be so kind to... Maybe the Tories like Kretinski so much they will take the mail part 
It is more likely that Kretinski will find a way to have the UK government subsidizing mail, but I am in the dark about his motives too.
It is more likely that Kretinski will find a way to have the UK government subsidizing mail, but I am in the dark about his motives too.
graystoke4
pfm Member
i tinkk \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\kretinski is the problem
graystoke4
pfm Member
thaks goodnight
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
Or do the same with a company that doesn’t rip you off for fees.
colasblue
pfm Member
For what exactly?
Being a credible and properly regulated stock broker?
For having properly ring fenced customer funds?
Bit of trouble over Woodford I grant you but even if they are adjudged to have given individual or generic advice outside of the regulations (which they claim not to have) they'll weather it, and even if they don't customer money is safe. Bottom line is the public will try an pin that sh1te on anybody they can irrespective of wrongdoing.
If you still aren't comfortable go with Vanguard!
I have actually done my homework
There's a reason I'm called Colas FIA
Check it out!
Being a credible and properly regulated stock broker?
For having properly ring fenced customer funds?
Bit of trouble over Woodford I grant you but even if they are adjudged to have given individual or generic advice outside of the regulations (which they claim not to have) they'll weather it, and even if they don't customer money is safe. Bottom line is the public will try an pin that sh1te on anybody they can irrespective of wrongdoing.
If you still aren't comfortable go with Vanguard!
I have actually done my homework
There's a reason I'm called Colas FIA
Check it out!
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colasblue
pfm Member
Therein lies the lesson! If you buy shares you need to have a diversified portfolio.
My first experience was the work share option scheme. We all though we had it made investing to the max, expected the share options to pay off our mortgages within five years etc. Kept us locked in to a crappy failing firm and 3 years later it all turned to Sh1te and we got nowt!
I actually knew a quite lot of people with Marconi shares from options who all got stuffed when it went tits up and more recently a lot of colleagues who'd previously worked for the Lloyds banking group and had large holdings.
You really shouldn't keep large holdings of a small number of shares irrespective of how rock solid you might think the firm is.
The current "dogs" in my portfolio are Vodafone and Intel and I certainly thought I was pretty safe when I bought them. I'm sure Intel will come round hugely at W10 end of life since a lot of PC's will have to be junked at that point, and Vodafone will recover either because it becomes a takeover target or the new CEO does a better job so I'm holding on to both of them unless I need a capital loss to offset a gain.
My first experience was the work share option scheme. We all though we had it made investing to the max, expected the share options to pay off our mortgages within five years etc. Kept us locked in to a crappy failing firm and 3 years later it all turned to Sh1te and we got nowt!
I actually knew a quite lot of people with Marconi shares from options who all got stuffed when it went tits up and more recently a lot of colleagues who'd previously worked for the Lloyds banking group and had large holdings.
You really shouldn't keep large holdings of a small number of shares irrespective of how rock solid you might think the firm is.
The current "dogs" in my portfolio are Vodafone and Intel and I certainly thought I was pretty safe when I bought them. I'm sure Intel will come round hugely at W10 end of life since a lot of PC's will have to be junked at that point, and Vodafone will recover either because it becomes a takeover target or the new CEO does a better job so I'm holding on to both of them unless I need a capital loss to offset a gain.