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    I have a sprinkling of PEP's and ISA's purchased 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 02 (hit hard times so no spare cash from then till now). Returns average out at a rather healthy 12% per annum (individual funds range from 2% down to 26%). Well known crash around 2000 has created a roller-coaster but so far it's a bit of a result I reckon. Yes, I know things can crash and value can be removed but so far the perceived wisdom of investing and leaving it for a good timeframe is working well. I had been cursing myself for not getting into BTL when I had chance/spare cash and no doubt I would have done well out of it but 12% with no grief involved works for me.

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        Is a man with two fish, better than a man without fish?

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          GAZPROM....

          I'm alright Jack

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            Originally posted by Jesus
            Is a man with two fish, better than a man without fish?
            Yes, but not as good as a man with a couple of crates of bubbly.

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              The Laborers in the Vineyard

              Scripture: Matthew 20:1-16
              "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place; and to them he said, `You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, `Why do you stand here idle all day?' They said to him, `Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, `You go into the vineyard too.' And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, `Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.' And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder, saying, `These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' But he replied to one of them, `Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' So the last will be first, and the first last."


              The Lord calls his disciples to serve God and neighbor with generosity and joy. Do you find joy in giving freely to others?

              "Lord, may I serve you and my neighbor with a glad and generous heart, not looking for how much I can get but rather looking for how much I can give."



              Amen

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                Originally posted by Jesus
                The Lord calls his disciples to serve God and neighbor with generosity and joy. Do you find joy in giving freely to others?
                Yes, but only when giving pork sausage to the ladies.

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                  Originally posted by Jabberwocky
                  Yes, but only when giving pork sausage to the ladies.
                  Yeah, like THAT ever happens..........when you are awake at least. Rumour has it you have a face like the north end of a southbound Yak Jabber. Couple that with your "special needs" intellect and it becomes apparent that the only exercise your pork sausage gets is in manual mode!
                  “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                    Let's face it sb, you're an ignorant fu*kwit.

                    An illegitimate w*nker, brought up on social in a maelstrom of rancour. You're a faker, a chancer, a barrow boy dancer; your life in the gutter is all knobs and butter. You're a sh*t, a tu*d, who spouts the absurd; you're that great fruit and veg man, Shaunbhoy the nerd.

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