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Hi Stricly, yes absolutely understand that, i only take what anyone says on these boards as a personal opinion at the time and opinions can change daily, and never taken as any kind of investment advice, i have been investing in the stock market for many years and like everyone else as well as making some good investment decisions i have also made mistakes on my journey, back to lgen, yes the dividend yield is still good at this current price, so i suppose it depends on which direction everyone feels the share price is going from here up or down, to be honest after exdiv last April i was expecting this to drop down to around 2.20 as it has done in previous years, but it never happened and look where we are right now and not just lgen all of the insurers are doing very well, but the FTSE is currently around an all time high, LGEN in my opinion has bee one of the most reliable shares for dividend income with a progressive dividend, but as this is my largest share holding in my portfolio i will now only add here if it should drop to a lot lower price, in the past this has been a very cyclical shares, but are things changing for the better or will we see a return to lower prices in the near future, i wish i knew the answer to that, as you say it's up to everyone to make their own call on that one

cheers

Lets hope this can move onto 90p now, it's looking more prosperous than it's done for a few years

Thank you Strictly for sharing your many years of experience with house builders, the two I'm holding are TW and PSN which just seem to be moving sideways lately one minute I'm in profit then back into loss again, i will keep holding for the dividends, but after reading your predictions will lower my expectations and exit price, the Insurers have been doing very well lately which is leaving them with too high an entry price, but I'm definitely not complaining about that, will just look forward to the next dividend payments

best of luck

Hello Strictly, I know you pulled out of house builders some time ago, but given the current low share prices of the likes of tw and psn at the moment and the possibility of further interest cuts and demand for new properties , do you think the house builders are a good buy right now, especially tw with a dividend yield of over 8%

Jds15, yes of course they are, fidelity index world/fundsmith equity/l&g future world/l&g global technology/l&g international index/l&g us index/ you can go onto the HL website and check the charts to see how well they performed over the last 5 years, but of course we have no way of knowing how well our funds or shares will perform over the next 5 years, if we did we could all get very rich

best of luck

I topped up here on the 3rd July and think i may have put a curse on it lol, no more adding i promise, would be nice to eventually get back into profit here though, it's up and down like a Hookers knickers, let's hope for more interest cuts soon

gla

TR61, I agree but who would replace them, another inept government perhaps ? the Tory's don't have a decent leader IMO and Reform talk the talk but don't think they have any policy's they just make them up as they go along, in the meantime let's hope we get more interest cuts to get this moving, whenever i get back into profit down it goes again, anyway

gla

Garonne, I'm guilty of being one of those who sold some off today, but will hold out for a £1 for the remaining shares i hold

Hi sotonspike, if your paying i will be there as well, I think Dan will also be up for it, we are heavy drinkers when when someone else is paying, so bring your credit card lol

Hello Aangus1, well the Greencoat UKW i mentioned earlier is an investment trust that has a dividend around 8.5% and pays quarterly, i was also invested in SMT trust a few years back but my timing was quite poor with that one, my shares pay a very good dividend for income and most of my funds are Legal& General low cost trackers that have provided a good growth over the last 5 years, the best performer being Legal& General global technology fund, but thanks for that information they might be some to consider in the future

Good morning Phyl, my other dividend shares are mng/aviva/ukw/taylor wimpey/persimmon/vod, I used to be also in phnx but unfortunately i sold them off too early to get the maximum profit from them, the only one's i see with a possible low entry point at the moment is perhaps persimmon and Taylor Wimpey, I agree it can be more profitable being invested in one share, but the risks are too high for myself having recently retired, the problem with dividend shares is should they get into difficulty and the dividend gets cut the share price can drop down very quickly and may take a very long time to recover if at all, i would use Vodafone and direct line as an example for that, the FTSE is at an all time high at the moment so i think some patience will be needed for getting a low entry price into some of the other shares i mentioned, but this is all guess work on my part, lgen is still the largest of my holdings and will remain so, but like yourself i don't want to get too heavy and too reliant on one share, I use funds for growth and shares for income

best of luck with your investments

Putting all of your assets into one share, Is OK until it's not ok and then it's too late, I spread my portfolio over 7 shares and eight international funds, I may not get the maximum return with this strategy, but I sleep a lot better for it, but each to his own

hello dan, hope you are well, great to see this finally get over the 80p hurdle, starting to get interesting here again now, my last top up when i doubled up was 86p so hoping it has a bit more to give before making any decisions, sorry to disagree with you about savage, but he came on here every day full of bull**** about what a great long term investment vodafone is, a defensive stock blah blah blah, and as soon as he sells he is back on here telling everyone what a bad investment it is and how it's going to go downhill since he sold himself, trying to influence other investors here to sell possibly too early just like he did himself, so false i think, anyway best of luck and hopefully we will see this go a bit higher in the coming weeks

gla

Savage_KeyboardR, I think everyone here has already figured out that your opinion is worthless, you say you have sold your shares, so why don't you do everyone a favour and move on instead of trying to influence other share holders into making a bad decision like you have done yourself

Starting to get interesting here now, I expect there will be quite a lot of profit taking today, I'm holding for 86p, hopefully this will get there soon

Hi dc, well I can't see it getting there any time soon, but it's already exceeded my expectations, so sit back and collect the generous dividends

What I would say is, if your worried you may lose the profits you have built up and you think you may need that money some day soon, then a sell might be right for yourself, the way I see it is the lower the price I paid the better the dividend yield I'm going to recieve, so I will be holding on to these shares for future income

Just added some more, and hoping i don't regret it, surely this has to be under valued now ?

NervousNelly, yes lgen has been the poorest performer out of the other 3 you mentioned, but it might continue that way and keep lagging behind, I hope it does catch up though as lgen is my largest holding out of them all, I'm also sitting on uninvested cash in my HL account at the moment, but all of the shares I'm interested in currently have too high an entry poin

gla

Garonne, the UK shares have been doing very well, in fact the ftse is at an all time high, it's just Vodafone that's lagging behind, but let's see if it can get over the 80p hurdle