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Assessing Value

18th July 16 By: David Harbage

Barratt Developments announced a trading update today, following on from reports in the past week from its industry peers Bovis and Persimmon, which has been carefully scrutinised for any indication ...

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Property: An Investment or Speculation?

6th July 16 By: David Harbage

According to the Markit/CIPS construction purchasing managers’ survey, in the month of June the UK construction industry experienced its weakest performance for seven years. Such forward-looki...

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Investor Rights in ISA's

5th July 16 By: Eric Chalker

Over the past two years, I had several lengthy discussions with a key official at the Department of Business Innovations & Skills (BIS), whose remit was to prepare for the dematerialisation of s...

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Monitoring our Winners' performance in June 2016

4th July 16 By: David Harbage

  The last week of June 2016 is unlikely to be forgotten by investors in a hurry, as financial markets were ‘wrong footed’ by the result of the UK’s referendum vote on continue...

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Lost track of your Pensions?

4th July 16 By: Lumin Wealth Management

Have you heard of the pension tracing service?  A surprising number of people haven’t. Yet it is a useful resource to cope with one common problem created by changing jobs. These days&...

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What is a nominee account?

24th June 16 By: Eric Chalker

A stockbroker’s nominee account is probably where your shares are held.  It will be a pooled account if, as is usual, your shares are bundled up with those of other investors.  ...

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Referendum Reaction

24th June 16 By: Resident IFA

It happened.  It really happened. Out of the EU after 43 years.  Cameron out.  Stockmarkets lurching…well, tanking. I voted to Remain.  I could have easily voted to L...

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A stock in retreat or an appealing chart?

13th June 16 By: David Harbage

Last week’s article looked at two strong trends – in the price of crude oil (Brent) and an AIM listed company share, Private & Commercial – and begged the question: acknowledg...

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Breaking new ground - the trend is your friend?

10th June 16 By: David Harbage

Many of the best short term traders base their decision making on price charts, taking action when they see a stock (or commodity, or currency) move out of its normal trading band – be it to t...

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Monitoring our 'Winners' Performance in May 2016

1st June 16 By: David Harbage

Click here for more information....   The Writer's views are their own, not a representation of London South East's. No advice is inferred or given. If you require financial advice, ple...

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13 - Tips for Traders

27th May 16 By: David Harbage

While most that has been written in the previous twelve articles surround sound long term financial strategy, there is undoubtedly scope for more nimble active investors to add value to a long term ...

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12 - From Managed to D-I-Y

26th May 16 By: David Harbage

In this article, the penultimate one of our series considering the prime types of asset available to long term savers, we turn our attention towards the potential help and advice available from prof...

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11 - Summary of the prime Asset Classes

25th May 16 By: David Harbage

As we near the end of this series of blogs, reviewing the long term investment opportunity for retirement provision or other long term savings, the writer thought it would be useful to summarise &nda...

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10 - Structured Products & Hedge Funds

24th May 16 By: David Harbage

Having looked at collective investment schemes last week, we now turn to look at two other investment vehicles which may have attractions in the quest to find solutions for long term savings: struct...

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9 - Equity vehicles

23rd May 16 By: David Harbage

Over the course of the past two months these articles have been assessing the merits and shortcomings of various kinds of asset into which long term savers may choose to invest, from cash to bonds, ...

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8 Equity diversification

19th May 16 By: David Harbage

In the previous article we looked at how the worth of profits can be assessed, as a means of placing a value on listed company shares. In this one, we will take a broader view of the universe of equ...

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7. Valuing equity investment

18th May 16 By: David Harbage

Last week’s blog introduced the concept of taking a stake in leading businesses, by owning a portion of the ordinary share capital – as opposed to receiving a steady income from ‘l...

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6. An introduction to equity investment

17th May 16 By: David Harbage

We are half way through our review of the prime types of asset that private individuals, as well as non-personal bodies (such as charities and clubs), will consider for their long term savings plans....

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Brexit - Food for thought, as the noise increases

16th May 16 By: David Harbage

In this blog, written a month ago, we discussed some of the fears surrounding the forthcoming referendum and the way in which the valuation of different asset types were beginning to respond to the ...

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4. Commodities

16th May 16 By: David Harbage

After looking at the merits and shortcomings of cash, bonds and property investment, we continue our look at the various asset types available for long term savers by turning our attention to another...

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