Category: Business

Just as the garden needs a bit of trimming and tidying so does an ISA.

Today there is a greater degree of transparency in financial markets than there has ever been in the history of the world. There is certainly enough free, quickly accessible data for me to manage my own investments.

I have been investing in the stock market since I was fifteen. Here is a post about my early trades.

Seven years ago I was busy investing in Vietnam and since then the two funds I now have are performing respectably. To be honest I’d slightly forgotten about them.

I own shares in a few companies that buy back their own shares, notably Personal Assets Trust, RIT and MP Evans.

When R, like Christopher Robin, kneels by his bed to say his prayers he always includes “Dear Lord, may I never buy an investment trust at a premium”.

Mind the Gap last month mentioned in passing that activist investors are circling some Baillie Gifford funds that trade at big discounts. I didn’t think it affected any of the investment trusts I own but I was wrong.

Recently I have been reticent about my dealings on the stock market because there haven’t been any. My last transaction was to top up my ISA in April.