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Ripley94: don't remind me! I consolidated my mining holdings al plumped the lot into Atalaya (go big or go home). I'm looking for some respite as it's holding my portfolio back. A 20% uplift would be perfect - here's hoping!

Mr Onions: I'm in as deep as I dare to go with this Share - 15% of my SIPP. Fingers crossed that will become 20% of my (enhanced) SIPP and I can trim off some margin. Not quite the return Trump and his family are making, but that will be good enough for me.

This movement is all hanging on what Trump says/does. Until we see the back of him and his meddling, the markets will be unpredictable.

Trump's tantrum on Spain is probably what's behind the waver in the SP.

Let's be honest, this SP is being driven by the chaos strategy of Trump - gold has topped US5100 and shows no sign of stopping, and that is all down to the Trump chaos strategy. Fundamentals are out of the window - just how much further can this one go?

Longtimeinvestor: I hope you don't mind me saying that you appear to be one of the only sensible voices on this platform, and I'm going to start following the boards your on

I have to agree longtimieinvestor. I started "managing" (and I use that word loosely - more sticking a pin in the newspaper at the time) my own SIPP in 2012 after years of meagre returns by so-called professionals. I'd look at iii and think "it's gone up 20% in the last 12 months, surely a correction soon". Then move my attention to a Nigerian oil company or South African copper miner, and loose 15% of my investment waiting for a recovery that never happens. If I had been sensible, I'd have placed my entire SIPP into iii and never looked back - the last time I looked at this (about 5 years ago) my SIPP could have been so large I'd have had no problem retiring in comfort. Again, I ignored the obvious. Anyway, I'm here now, and recent months have been a bit bumpy, but the long term trend is up, and I'm happy with that.

Harley: Farage has already stated that his plan for the NHS is to scrap the current model and replace it with an insurance funded model. That will have 2 significant results: 1) pensioners - and 25% of all adults are now retired, they are over the age of 66yo - will not be able to afford the insurance premiums, and so will start dying-off pretty rapidly; and 2) the NHS will shrink rapidly in capacity due to lack of funding from the government, and that 30% of it's employees who weren't born in the UK, will likely leave the UK of their own volition (as will I, who wants to live in a fascist country?). Sooner or later, pensioners will cotton-on to this, or maybe they won't and they will be the turkeys who vote for Xmas.

Hey, Cheapsharesboy - less of the ageism! I'm well into TCAP (holding over 16000) and I'm 66yo in November. People are born negative, age has nothing to do with it.

Bought my holding on 2nd December 2024, and the investment has doubled

Why do you want to gift something to your children? I told my 3 boys they're getting nothing - two have £150k-plus jobs in the city, the other has his own company. Not bad for a Liverpool lad who was raised on a council estate and failed the 11-plus. I reckon I did my job well as a father.

Watching Tory Mel Stride on Politics Today trying desperately to find a issue to hang his hat on to oppose todays EU deal was laughable. He finally came up with saying that the deal "might" prevent UK farmers from using a "future development" due to UK co-operation with the EU. What bunkum.

Every family in the UK makes economic decisions based on uncertainty, but those decisions have to be made. Mel Stride was effectively saying that you shouldn't take out the loan for a replacement car, or a re-mortgage for a extension because, well you might just win the Lottery next week and what was the point of the loan? The world has moved on since 2016, but then some people still think it's 1961.

Hi RoJo: personally, I think there's a fair bit more to come with ATT; the SP is on a sizeable discount, yet the top-7 holdings (which is 48.10% of the holdings) includes Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Broadcom. The question to be asked is: why is this IT on a discount?

Geez... I will type sockahoop next time

oldpabear: it's not a proposal that floats my boat either.

over the last 2 years, jggi is up 30% while hint is down almost 10% (before todays announcement), so i'm sure hint shareholders are ****ahoop at this proposed merger. okay, hint is on a significant discount to nav but a comparison of the top-10 shareholdings of both it's doesn't suggest a lot of synergy, so i expect the expanded jggi will be offloading holdings that they wouldn't have bought. it could be a turbulent 12 months ahead.

Well done UserSteve - I'm a new kid on the block with Palantir, and only came across the company as my (Maths graduate) 22yo son has just taken a job with the company on a salary 25% more than what I'm on! What caused you to seek & invest when it was under US$20? And while I'm here, any idea why HL don't trade ARM Holdings on their platform (ii does)?

I've just bought £10k of this stock - hadn't heard of it until last week, when my son accepted a role with it.

Serious money - his first job outside of uni - he's earning more than me!

Wishing that he'd had the job offer earlier in the year, seeing as the SP is up 250% in last 12 months.

Gwm121: type Fundsmith Equity into Google, and then select the link to your preferred investment platform

I've holdings in both IT's within my SIPP.

For me, JGGI is the foundation, and PCT is the turbo-charger - can make you go faster, but uses a lot of fuel.

Some great information there, Meconopsis - I'm going to keep a copy of these posts and have a better review a the weekend. I especially liked - "if you happen to be a higher rate tax payer in retirement (and inheritance isn’t a concern) then - my view - is that you’re better off paying the 40% tax on the money needed to fill your annual ISA allowance than keeping it in the SIPP and paying tax when you need the money" - I'd not thought of doing that.