150th Birthday

Wash Doctors are back. An operative comes to clean the interior and/or exterior of your car using minimum water. Minimum charge is £18 which sounds like good money for the washer but …

Bee Keeping in Nicaragua

Betzabe keeps bees in San José, Nicaragua. Hitherto she has borrowed money from a community bank and repaid those loans in a timely fashion. Now she has successfully applied to Kiva for a loan of $3,000.

Mistakes

A reader dubbed me “Star Investor” in a comment last month, making me reflect that perhaps I have been a boastful toad in business posts. So today I’m going to set the record straight.

Published
Categorised as Business

The Making

In Belize in 1973 when I was briefly in the army, the Army Air Corps choppered me around in a Sioux helicopter – one with the glass bubble. It was fun but it was an opportunity to observe the landscape.

Carbon Admissions

Yesterday I mentioned three revelations from Personal Assets Trust and forgot to tell you the third. It discloses its carbon emissions, not something I associate with an investment trust that has nine employees, excluding directors.

Busted Flushes

At the MP Evans AGM yesterday I couldn’t think of a good question to ask. What a difference a day makes.

Published
Categorised as Business

Driving Mister Bertie

Earlier this year I posited that the expanded London Ultra Low Emissions Zone, effective in 2021, will stop me owning a car. Well, I can change my mind, can’t I?

Vietnam Update

About a year ago I bought three investment trusts that invest in Vietnam; time to see how they are doing.

Published
Categorised as Business

Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow

It yields 5.5%, the dividend is up 4.8% and revenue earnings per share are up 8.6%. Indeed, there have been thirty-seven years of dividend growth. Is it a bird, is it a ‘plane … no, it’s The Merchants Trust, 130 years old this year. A dividend super-hero that trades close to its NAV. If you… Continue reading Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow

Published
Categorised as Business

All I Really Want To Do

UNIMAGINABLE WEALTH WITH THE CLICK OF A MOUSE YOU CAN MAKE $3000 IN 24 HRS. WITH CLICKS VALLEY 

Published
Categorised as Business