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went for Mobius IT start of 2021 since reckoned he has a reputation to preserve.and has been doing this stuff for so long he should have a good nose for it..so far, looking like sensible idea, for once!

totally agree.. bought on a whim in dog days of last year, that was lucky!

rise on back of domino effect from Aviva activist ?

SLA PLC...unfortunately too close to SLAP and much fun for headlines.
ABRDN...shorthand for A burden?
whatever, it takes the national character out.
Still think it's stupid...as before, it was those wonderful people who gave us the London Olympics logo who came up with this.

many thanks..
I should say that the desktop valuers have various accreditations plus staff with AssocRICS...RICS watering down whatever good name they had by handing out semi-professional accreditations

to give you some context...with rebuild cost quote from desktop pranets, and using cost modelling.com plus location multiplier , I could build a theatre seating 500+ or a swimming pool over 50 meters. There would be change from building a petrol station, planetarium or railway station.

I've sacrificed hours of my life to establish BCIS has a £m2 base for rebuild costs ...you then use a location index as a multiplier to fine tune and then there is a range that you choose from regarding your building and the surrounding buildings in your borough(London) or area. The BCIS rebuild cost includes professional fees and demolition costs and is ex-VAT (this is because you are insuring for the hypothetical complete destruction of your building so it would be a new build cost thus ex-VAT) I have also established that unless I become a chartered surveyor in the next week I cannot get the base number out of BICS so have been trying friendly surveyors for this simple number. So far I have been given a figure some 2.5 times lower than the quote I have been given. obv getting a second opinion. As I only wrested control of the management a couple of years back, this would suggest we have been overpaying massively for at least 10 years...this is not a surprise.
BTW : new insurance broker through current managing agents, used to be LME trader (supposedly) rest of CV opaque.

HL are not the world's greatest for executing orders and love any excuse for delaying transactions...illiquidity a fave

all holders being asked to vote on scheme of arrangement...anyone out there still holding cast your vote!

how well would Scotland have done if they had been under the tender care of the EU?

Could be because HL have finally executed DRIP for their LGEN holders today..ditto SLA and LLOY.
viz:HL's bizarre policy of only executing DRIP orders between 11th and 21 st of each month.

waiting for quite a lot of stuff to be happy in August and SAGE has nothing to do with it.

cod science based on what? Please stop it...I am bored of this sort of hysteria. You are like the girls in the hairdressers who think they won't get the vaccination because they have read all this stuff...what are they pharmacology graduates? PHDs in epidemiology still doing NOS at the weekends and worrying about Astra Zeneca.
oh wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us tae see oursels as ithers see us

alas, I have insurance shares across various companies...companies/brokers are commission based, so inflation goes up, income goes up and there is always someone who has to have insurance. ..should be a slam dunk but obviously not!
HSX could be weak for a while as they will have to proffer cheaper rates going forward to woo back customers.
HSX problem with COVID was that their customers were "higher echelon" so access to noisy media easy for them. Other insurers had same attitude but their customers had no access to media. ho hum.

I hear P E groups are sniffing around...

does anyone know if VOD's Vodacom share has a realistic value?

as responsible director for the block where I live, I have been less than thrilled this evening to receive a revaluation of "rebuilding cost" ( ie: when buildings experience a meltdown) 71% up from last year. If all insurers , or more likely insurance brokers( commish merchants) are encouraging revaluation of buildings for rebuilding costs by desktop Annie/Charlie , guess how well the insurers are going to do going forward.

what does PRA/BOE/ MoSW think their new regulations/cunning plans will do?

um...world over-population? Check size of populations 1960 v. 2020. worldometers v. useful for covid tracking but a trove of info there. Gates should have spent his money on contraception programmes. India pop 1960 15% of global pop, UK 1.73%, USA , 6.15%...2020, India 17.7%, USA 4.25% and UK 0.87%. Not a lover of the Chinese state system but they knew way back that what topples regimes is famine...too many people, not enough food BOOM end of regime. Hence one child policy introduced...however, small problem now, too much health care, mortality age too high, now need youth to work to cover costs of state/ personal expenditure on old people When my child was born mid 1990s, my parents were retired, my grandmothers "retired" and only 1 generation working for all these possible state claimants and I was an older parent. How does that add up? The system is not built on the world's population exceeding their 3 score years and 10...best they all become vegans fast. It will all balance out eventually but ...!
PS: No one mentioning cremations , I note.

Going back over 5 plus years and stripping out extremes of pandemic and GFC, is LGEN destined to range trade between 220ish and 290 ish for ever?