shares
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Chatting to a friend over the weekend she said she had shares in BT. I asked how much she was making in dividends; 74 pence she said. She’d inherited her BT shares from her mother who had them as a former British Telecom employee. That was a funny conversation. Making just 74p isn’t going to… Read more
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Now before I talk about my investments, let’s be very clear – they’re not massive. At all. My single biggest personal account right now is indeed my trading account. But in the grand scheme of savings and investments, it’s barely a quarter of what I currently hold. My mission is a simple one; to have… Read more
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Only last night I was catching up with a friend, asking him if he’d had any more recent income from his Premium Bonds – After last summer he said he was getting more regular “wins” of £100 a month from his full investment in Premium Bonds. He said he never used to have so many… Read more
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Just over a year ago I started dabbling in shares via the Freetrade app. My trading philosophy is to buy shares in services that I use and claw back some of what I spend almost as discounts or cash back. My supermarket of choice, until the cost of living crisis, has always been Sainsbury’s. It… Read more
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Only the other day I said that we should all be shareholders. I say that partly because successive governments after Margaret Thatcher’s initial privatisation have promised that everyone can be a shareholder. The reality is that they are not. Depending on which figures you look at, only between 22% and 33% of Brits are direct… Read more