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richjfool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 10:46

Re: Schroder Oriental Half Year Report

I have received details of the offer now.

It is an offer of 2 "C" class shares for every 5 normal shares held. The "C" class shares cost £1.00 per share (and have to be pre-paid).

After a period of approx 4 [more]

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richjfool posted to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 07:33

Centrica IMS

Centrica IMS:

http://www.investegate.co.uk/centrica-plc--cna-/bus/interim-...

13 May 2013

Centrica Interim [more]

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richjfool replied to the High Yield - Share Strategies board. 11:46

Re: Why not an Investment Trust?

Private Aye,

I support your idea of selecting a small portfolio of Investment Trusts, but would suggest avoiding Higher Yielding IT's (from the High Income sector) and instead focus on Growth & Income Trusts. E.g, IT's from the Global [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 09:10

Re: Schroder Oriental Half Year Report

Thanks RC, ironically, I was just reading about it.

I'll bung an email off to my Broker, alerting that it's coming and see if I can short circuit the postal procedure.

Regards

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richjfool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 04:46

Re: Schroder Oriental Half Year Report

Further to the announcement made on 22 March 2013, and following a positive response from investors the Board confirms that it will proceed with an equity issue. The documentation required for this issue is in the process of being finalised, [more]

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richjfool replied to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 05:39

Re: HYP break-down before summer break

As JMN2 has Tesco and Sainsbury, I don't think I would be looking to add Morrisons.

I noticed there wasn't a drinks stock, apart from Marstons, - such as Diageo or SAB Miller, though agreed now wouldn't seem to be the best time to buy. [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 16:25

Re: HYP or Buy To Let

The point and the reality with a HYP is that it pays a (hopefully growing) stream of income, regardless of the markets to'ing and fro'ings, ups & downs etc., and regardless of the fact that the market may have gone up over the last 3 years and [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 09:27

Re: Schroder Oriental Half Year Report

Thank you for posting that.

As a holder of SOI, I find that excellent on all counts.

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richjfool posted to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 08:49

Edinburgh Dragon IT Half Yearly Report

http://www.investegate.co.uk/edinburgh-dragon-tst--efm-/rns/...

A couple of extracts:

net asset value rose by 21.2% in [more]

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richjfool posted to the Unilever plc board. 08:35

ULVR offer to increase stake in Hindustan ULVR

UNILEVER PLC INITIATES OFFER TO INCREASE STAKE

IN HINDUSTAN UNILEVER

London/Mumbai, 30th April 2013. Unilever PLC (LSE: ULVR) today announced a voluntary open offer to increase its stake in Hindustan Unilever (HUL), its publicly [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 16:17

Re: Investment Trusts - first steps

If it helps, as a holder of MYI who didn't want to increase his stake further at such a high premium, I diversified, or bought instead, - STS, which has done well over the last year or so that I have held it. I looked at HINT, but so far have stuck [more]

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richjfool posted to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 07:40

Standrad Life Interims

Standard Life Interims look good to me:


http://www.investegate.co.uk/standard-life-plc--sl--/rns/int...

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richjfool posted to the Associated British Foods plc board. 08:34

Primark help boost ABF performance

Some continuing good results for ABF, helped by Primark:

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richjfool posted to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 08:15

Murray International Trust issues more equity

http://www.investegate.co.uk/murray-intnl-trust--myi-/rns/is...

ISSUE OF EQUITY

The Company announces that, on 17 April [more]

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richjfool replied to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 10:18

Re: Tesco Results

I thought the market would like the fact that Tesco was exiting the US and had maintained its dividend. However the market doesn't seem to like the fall in profits, the £1.2bn US write-down, the property write-down, and apparently has concerns [more]

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richjfool posted to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 07:06

Tesco Results

http://www.investegate.co.uk/tesco-plc--tsco-/rns/final-resu...


· £3.5bn trading profit - year-on-year performance largely [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 15:48

Re: Lost the Plot

At the end of the day, we are all expressing our respective points of view and that's all they are. No one can be sure of what markets will do or when. My take (regarding equities) is a couple of 3-5% corrections over the next few months, but nothing [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Trusts & Unit Trusts board. 14:08

Re: Buy bond funds?

I've been reading the same articles as jascon, - about the "Great Rotation" out of bonds into equities. In fact not only have I been reading them, I've been listening to them, about 50+ times a day, on the likes of Bloomberg and CNBC. I've [more]

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richjfool replied to the Investment Strategies board. 05:01

Re: How to buy gold?

Interesting to re-read this old thread. I wonder how the posters feel currently about the price and future direction of (the price of) gold.

There definitely seems to be a view/feeling that gold price is due to fall back and to some extent [more]

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richjfool posted to the High Yield - HYP Practical board. 07:49

Tate Trading Statement

Tate's trading statement:

http://www.investegate.co.uk/tate---38--lyle-plc--tate-/bus/...

Nothing very exciting there. [more]