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You should be able to buy them on most platforms. I use AJ Bell but know I can get them on Barclays. AV.A or AV.B is their code.

Indeed skier. I bought some Asian funds earlier in the year that had no China exposure. Biden has just toughened up on them too. India is taking over as the growth country in the region and now has a bigger population than China now.

That’s made be chuckle Darth 😂😂 You’ll have to try a bit harder than that fella……

Keep going Darth, you might make double figures today 😂😂

What’s happened to your SNP lunatic chum Mach these days Chuckleberry ? You haven’t had a lovers tiff have you ? 😳

Get back to finding some negative articles Darth. You’re better at that than trying to insult people……😉

No worries bud. Hope all’s well. The Prefs go ex on Sep 7th with payment on Oct 2nd to save you looking it up. Bought mine at 112.6p. There was a case in 2018 where the company attempted to redeem them at par (£1) but they were forced to back down by various institutional investors. Of course with interest rates going up the price here has come down and I’ve bought them thinking they will be unlikely to fall much further with interest rates about to plateau soon and they will obviously rise in price when interest rates fall again. The share trade prices on LSE will obviously tell you what you can get them for inside the official spread.

All in good working order still I’m pleased to announce. I won’t try to guess your age Darth. I wasn’t aware there had been a negative, cynical, decade so I’ve got no chance…..

I’m not quite at that stage yet Darth being in my mid 50s but thanks for the thought 😉

Darth’s busy today TFE trying to post as many doomsayer articles as he can starting new threads. I can’t say I ever remember him posting a succession of positive articles 🤔 Remind me never to go out for a drink with him. I don’t really fancy slitting my wrists just yet 😉

Lloyds up today against the market. Whatever next ? 😳

The mind boggles 😂

Yes thought not blocking Fakey, I tend to not bother reading his posts these days 😳😂

You’ll know then Darth that he’s frequently being calling market crashes over a period of time. We’ll see if he’s right or not. I guess if someone continually guesses the time in a day, he/she will get it right at some point…….

You evidently haven’t done your research on what Burry has been saying in recent years Darth. That’s what I’m saying.

Burry has been pumping that stuff for a good while Darth and has been wrong constantly. In many circles now he is ridiculed for his predictions and has made many bad investment decisions in the last few years.

I know you like to peddle bad news constantly Darth but in the case of Burry, you really do need to DYOR 😉

Going to post any good news today Darth or are you just concentrating on the dark stuff all day again ?

Presumably shares being lent to a short seller. Hope they come unstuck in a short squeeze.

To add Armani (sorry only just seen your post), these shares are “cumulative” preference shares so in the event dividends are suspended, the company has to pay any dividends passed before it can restart paying ordinary shareholders. I’ve found the spread is notional and is much tighter in practice (less than 2p sometimes - getting quotes without executing buys or sells trades allows you to see the spread. They’re yielding about 7.2% currently at the price. Seem fairly to safe to me at present that dividends will continue and preference holders get first dibs of course. Hope that helps.

Steady TFE. You’ll upset the bitter Remoaner camp if you’re not careful……