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Agreed, see McNulty review of Avacta as eg
Yuri as someone who has lived on his investment portfolio for well over 20 years(and regards that as my "job") I am happy that I understand what I'm doing.BUT for others, relatively new to investing, any investment portfolio should start from a sound base and well-chosen funds earning a little more than the rate of inflation are both a base and a cushion.Once that is established and after real, serious analysis of how the markets work, investment in individual shares is only then a sensible strategy.
casapinos - IMO: these boards are very good sources of flagging attractive opportunities (assuming you have some skill to filter junk), as long as you do understand what's you're doing (not just think you understand). So for someone preferring passive investment - yes: funds indeed are very good option (and timing today seems to be one of those "in a lifetime" opportunities), but to navigate markets for (much) better/higher returns - funds definitely won't be enough.
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Whilst I accept your very good and sensible points and I totally accept the safety that is in a fund there are many good solid FTSE PLCs out there both in UK and abroad. Use the time between now and the end of March to research and do more research into the funds and firms so that this time, as Casaponis says, get it right by growing the wealth slowly.
Certainly avoid putting eggs in one basket (funds (not fund) are a good way of doing this) and get to know the investment just like we did here but, this time, kick emotion into touch. Remember, the money we will get from AAL will buy a lot more today than it did last week. Good luck all.
There has been much chatter on this board about how to recoup losses from SXX. Today provides an opportunity to begin that process, BUT don't buy an aim stock, especially not this weeks" hot stock" , nor even a ftse stock , buy a broadly based equity or balanced fund . If you believe that at some point , in the future , maybe a year or two in the future, the markets will have recovered(and they have recovered from every fall)you will be rewarded by a profit.
Treat investing as a means to improve your wealth slowly , but steadily, rather than playing the lottery, remember there are 1100+ stocks on AIM of which a handful make short-term large profits , the likelihood of picking the right ones from a sample of four or five is small.