City Of London Investment Share Price (CTY)

Risking it,charges per trade is around 20 quid for 500 shares which is about 4p each share along with his platform fees

at the time was just at a slight loss

re-invested dividends all but on 2 occasions were above 4 pounds

will add more on any pull backs and will use the dividend income later on

mch lwd,hgt all look useful as well

insurance sector has done well since October should have purchases more,sell or hold now that is the decisions

Still not sure I understand it Massey, unless your costs were horrific - Simon is right, you can easily click on your holding with HL and calculate your average buy price. With LGEN and AV you're not comparing apples with apples - The general insurance sector had taken a clobbering but has recently bounced. Especially AV after the news they were being targeted by a suitor. CTY have stayed fairly steady during this time but conversely they are never going to blow the lights out. Their recent announcement about the divi increasing for the 58th straight year does it for me.

Massey,,,see my comment of 26th March. I believe HL's basic 1yr, 2yr, 3yr and 5yr figures etc, are misleading. As far as I can see they are based purely on your original purchases, but do not include reinvested dividends. The best way to check the shares' performance is to see how much you paid for your major purchases and note the number of shares obtained. Then check the number of shares you have now, after the divs have been reinvested. Check the total value against what you paid for your lump investment.

Riskingit,at the time of my comments I was slightly in the red according to HL platform

I would assume this was after purchasing costs I had several buys usually 500 shares at a time

this morning it shows 2.7 percent in the blue

Aviva up 24 percent

Lgen up 15 percent

Massey I don't understand how you can be in the red???? Your average purchase price is less than the price when you posted (3.94) and you've reinvested the divs?