ScillyFool

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 20:28

Re: Parking money

Hi Easy,

Just my sort of humour, unfortunately. I feel a late night of jocularity coming on.

Thanks, SF

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 22:15

Re: Parking money

Easy,

What a delight it is to have some more "amusing" posts on TMF. So many people don't take the time to cast their eyes upwards and read the TMF 2nd. word -amuse, conveniently placed next to an image of a jester. The boards need [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 21:14

Re: Funds looking quite attractive

"The Market is up over12 percent......"

Obviously beating the "slightly over 3,000ft hill fund" into a cocked hat. And your point is? Underperformance on your part, I guess. Nice one! It's a risky business. Who dares [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 21:33

Re: Building a portfolio

Hi Paolo99,

Welcome to "the Investment Strategies" board. You will certainly get a lot of good advice here. To answer your questions:

1.Don't apologise for asking a perfectly reasonable question. We all learn something as [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Tesco plc board. 19:50

Re: Toys for Boys

So, the proof of the pudding, presumably, will be when we see an increase in the number of female chemistry undergraduates to the level equalling boys. I assume this is the ultimate aim of this campaign.

I sincerely hope this happens and I'm [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Tesco plc board. 14:36

Re: Toys for Boys

There is no such thing as "bad publicity", there is only publicity. Tesco will just love all this publicity that the "PC Police" seem intent on boring everyone to death with, because next week nobody will remember, or care much [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Vodafone Group plc board. 20:59

Re: Some Verizon investors OK with paying premiu

Ngata,

My sentiments entirely. Verizon Communications obviously doesn't have the necessary finance to do a deal, otherwise it would have been done weeks ago when the price and the sentiment was far more favourable.

The only [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Vodafone Group plc board. 13:19

Re: Some Verizon investors OK with paying premiu

Verizon Communications management still don't seem to have grasped the reality of the situation.

1. Vodafone are the only company that own the other 45 percent of Verizon Wireless. So, the price at which Vodafone shareholders decide is a [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 20:47

Re: Investment Trusts - first steps

Hi Bailey,

I think your three choices are spot on. All three have a good history of rising dividends, which was one of your prime motivators for buying and all are currently yielding more than RPI (one of my personal benchmarks). They also [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investing for Income board. 19:09

Re: Chasing the yield the IT way

"Trying to entrap me into posting something ......"

The only entrapment will be a loss of face by not answering a perfectly reasonable question.

I for one am interested to know if there are any combination of [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Vodafone Group plc board. 10:29

Re: What If AT&T and Verizon Teamed Up?

I think a lot of attention is being focussed on the Verizon Wireless story, which is understandable, but the rest of Vodafone seems to be lumped in as "the rubbish that's left over" i.e. the Southern European dogs and everything [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Vodafone Group plc board. 19:28

Re: Big Buy

Uncle Warren?

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 21:08

Re: Building a B8/B7 basket

Hi Degsy,

I'm coming to this thread a little late so forgive me if I replicate others comments, but your situation seems a little similar to mine a good few years ago when I was fairly new to this investment lark. I read all about HYP and [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investing for Income board. 19:03

Re: Chasing the yield the IT way

When did LLPC become an IT?

I think we're comparing a Premier League team with a single player. One is okay if there is an injury, if the other gets injured he gets slaughtered.

SF

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 16:37

Re: Lost the Plot

F958B,

I don't think you've lost the plot. Now, if you were to sell your gold at, say, $300 an ounce, then I think you would have lost the plot (enter stage left, Ed Balls, a shadowy Chancellor if ever I saw one).

How were you or [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 18:59

Re: TOTP March 2013

"... a revival of a Yip Harburg soundtrack classic on to the BBC playlist."

Tsk,tsk, Luni don't you listen to the news? Auntie has decided in her infinite wisdom to pull the soundtrack of "Ding dong......" from [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Trading My Way To A Million board. 10:10

Re: Podcasts

Then there's "Wake up to Money" from BBC Radio5.

And if you like "off the wall" ideas there's TED Talks.

http://www.ted.com/talks

One of the best I saw/heard was by [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Vodafone Group plc board. 08:49

Re: A Potential Vodafone Deal

I like to look at this proposed deal from a "Devil's Advocate" position.

If the deal was reversed, i.e. it was Vodafone, either on its own or as part of a joint bid, buying out Verizon's 55% stake in Verizon Wireless, how much [more]

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ScillyFool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 19:32

Re: Market Crash Imminent?

Roger Bootle was rather "optimistic" in the Telegraph the other day. That's normally a worrying portent of "doom and gloom".

SF

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ScillyFool replied to the Vodafone Group plc board. 11:56

Re: VZW "No Intention to buy/merge" wi

A nice example of "buy on the rumour, sell on the news".

Unless you continue to hold, as I do.

Although, nothing has really changed. VOD still own 45% of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Communications want to buy it, but haven't [more]