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twirlypinky
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If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago
it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your
£1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure
would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth
of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the
empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment
advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your
£1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure
would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth
of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the
empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment
advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
saving up another deposit as we've lost all our equity.
We're 29% of the way there...
We're 29% of the way there...
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Tongue in cheek acknowledged....
Of course, if you focus on all the negative periods you will get that view. If you had bought RBS shares yesterday they would be 50% higher today. That and your examples are not representative of the typical returns.
If you had a portfolio that was invested in just Northern Rock, HBOS and XL then you must have done something bad in a previous life
I am an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA). The comments I make are just my opinion and are for discussion purposes only. They are not financial advice and you should not treat them as such. If you feel an area discussed may be relevant to you, then please seek advice from an Independent Financial Adviser local to you.0 -
Tongue in cheek acknowledged....
Of course, if you focus on all the negative periods you will get that view. If you had bought RBS shares yesterday they would be 50% higher today. That and your examples are not representative of the typical returns.
If you had a portfolio that was invested in just Northern Rock, HBOS and XL then you must have done something bad in a previous life
Luckily it was just a joke. I don't even like beer.saving up another deposit as we've lost all our equity.
We're 29% of the way there...0 -
twirlypinky wrote: »Luckily it was just a joke. I don't even like beer.
I dont normally offer my services free of charge but just to help a fellow MSEr :rolleyes: you buy the beer:beer: and i drink said contents and return empties to you.:cool:
Winner all round:beer::cool: hard as nails on the internet . wimp in the real world :cool:0 -
lol, I'm not quite sure about that! :rolleyes: It sounds like the sort of deal that got me into the sticky mess I'm in now!I dont normally offer my services free of charge but just to help a fellow MSEr :rolleyes: you buy the beer:beer: and i drink said contents and return empties to you.:cool:
Winner all round:beer:saving up another deposit as we've lost all our equity.
We're 29% of the way there...0
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