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Are posts related to investing news okay for this forum?
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Your thread title is about 'posts relating to investing news'. News about new savings or investment products or the quality/service levels of different providers would seem to be on topic for a savings and investments forum.
However, your poll is not about 'investing news' it is about 'posting financial news articles'. General financial news covers a huge range of discussion points from inflation, interest rates, average wage levels, the published financial performance of individual companies, the price of commodities, to the potential impact of brexit or change of government leadership on the country's economic growth indicators.
All of these snippets of financial news are tangentially linked to 'savings and investments' because your investment performance will often be linked to macro economic factors or the financial fortunes of individual companies. But across the spectrum of financial news there are literally hundreds of thousands of articles published per day around the world. We don't need you to go and find the ones that support your political views and post them all here with a half-assd synopsis for us as new threads. That is why your threads keep getting moved to 'debate the economy' or perhaps the 'Arms' which are more suitable places for general chit chats or arguments about broad economic issues.
So I would say this board has no real desire for you to keep pulling general financial news articles and starting threads about them just because you were sitting around bored now you've retired. The forum's role is not to duplicate the comments section of a newspaper website. 'Debate house prices & the economy' is usually a better place for discussions and debates around financial news.
But if someone is having a savings or investment discussion and wants to include a link to a relevant financial news article containing references to the matter at hand, then that's allowed; the forum functionality deliberately has a button that can be used to create a link, and links to articles are not prohibited.0 -
Are posts saying the same thing over and over okay for this forum?0
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NoAre posts saying the same thing over and over okay for this forum?
Also, I hate IFAs. Grrrrrr.0 -
I received an email that a certain firm of fund managers was about to resume trading in its real estate PAIF in the near future.
I received an email that a certain firm of fund managers was about to resume trading in its real estate PAIF in the near future.
I received an email that a certain firm of fund managers was about to resume trading in its real estate PAIF in the near future.
If I was to come on here and post a new thread about every message that came from a certain newsletter it would rapidly become tedious.
If I was to comment on an existing thread that it seems that fund managers are reopening such funds after locking them for a while in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, one of a few things might happen.
- nobody takes any notice
- someone says that has already been mentioned on here, didn't you see it?
- a debate might arise about the relative merits and detractions of open and closed end funds in different market conditions. For instance, if lots of people want to sell out of a fund at once, and it isn't easy to realise assets quickly, the fund manager might be forced towards easier and discounted sales of its best performers, which I understand may have been the fears that had these property funds deciding to lock themselves for a while. After all, they can hardly sell a few office buildings at a couple of days notice.
That sort of discussion would have arisen on here before, but no harm revisiting it with examples (property, emerging markets ...) once in a while.
So news might become educational when done well on here, but repeatedly raising similar subjects might look obsessive, and doing it always as if for putting forward a critical agenda can easily break the patience of other readers here.
n.b. I'm not obsessed with property. I didn't even read the emails in question, but just noticed a similar series of headline titles recently. The subscription is about all sorts of funds, not just property.0 -
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NoI would also like to know if posts saying the same thing over and over okay for this forum.0
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Plonk.bigfreddiel wrote: »Is it okay to post about articles, news stories found elsewhere, be they positive or negative?0 -
Does that make you a plonker?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. 
Well I've learnt a new word. For me 'plonk' is cheap wine. Anyway, what was the thread about? Oh who cares. Anyone got an interesting story to tell? A good joke? A YouTube video of a plank warping? Or a video of paint drying? 0 -
BananaRepublic wrote: »Does that make you a plonker? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Well I've learnt a new word. For me 'plonk' is cheap wine. Anyway, what was the thread about? Oh who cares. Anyone got an interesting story to tell? A good joke? A YouTube video of a plank warping? Or a video of paint drying?
Your wish is my command:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpk4q_Zo2ws0 -
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