How much have you lost from your investments since the financial crisis began?

FungusFighter

LongTermLurker wrote: »

FF, it was clear from a while ago that you were either weird or wanted to s**g Cranston - now it's blatantly clear! Having denied above that you were knocking him/her, it's you that's clearly insincere.

Maybe Cranston doesn't spend all his/her time poring through past threads replying to his/her admirers/stalkers? Maybe that's why you didn't get your answer in 2 seconds flat?

Suggest you register a new account so you can come back anonymously without being treated as a plank.

(oops - 1/2 hour's delay - maybe I'm Cranston, after all )

LTL, I am both weird and...!!!

All joking aside, I detest liars, or rather liars that do harm.
This is a public forum, people come here for advice - I could say I am sat here wearing a tutu and playing the harp, a lie but it would do no harm. CranstonPickles set himself up as a respected banker and trader offering advice - would you want advice from a docker claiming to be a banker? How about a window-cleaner claiming to be a doctor? I'd call my efforts a public service.

On the subject of stalking, well what put me onto Cranston was his stalking of Carolt, where she went, he went, just like Pickles. A few hours of my life to out a fraud hardly qualifies but have it any way you like.

It's been fun guys - CranstonPickles, any time you want a rematch just let me know; natch FF is my secondary, set up with the sole purpose of ridding the forum of shysters and frauds. One down, many more to go!!
FungusFighter (Fighting Fungus Everywhere) :beer:

Geoffo_M

FungusFighter wrote: »

My point is that I cut and pasted the above from the IOS.

Anyone can be an expert on here, the internet is a wonderful thing, but it does not stand up to scrutiny, does it?

The whole point of a live forum is discussion is it not? When someone has to go away for half an hour each time they are asked a simple question that someone of their claimed background and profession should be able to answer in their sleep, one has to ask oneself if that person is who they claim to be and when they spout the sort of crap that our mate Cranston does, utter inanities and economics for idiots, pretends to be a woman to wriggle out of it, gets caught and then tries throroughly ineptly to wriggle some more, I'm afraid I am inclined to lose faith somewhat (for those not up to speed, have a look at Cranston's back catalogue).

Cranston, or should I say Pickles110564, you are hereby outed as a docker and a fraud and I claim my £50 (in-joke, don't worry!)

:T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T

I little boy trying to get into long trousers. For god's sake, GROW UP!!

FungusFighter

Geoffo_M wrote: »

I little boy trying to get into long trousers. For god's sake, GROW UP!!

Ahem, aren't you Geoffo M the famous "Troll-Outer" ? What's your head-count Geoffo?

:eek:

sillysausage237

Oh dear, this thread seems to have gone off on a tangent. Seems like Cranston has an admirer. Someone is either very very very bored and has a lot of time on their hands or the local mental ward is missing one of their paranoid schitzophrenics .

Primrose

At the end of August, total equity investments down 14% from their January 1st valuation. To be honest, haven't been to check since then - partly because I'm too scared, and partly because as they're all held in PEPs/ISAs for the long term, I'm hoping that they'll eventually turn around. If I'm not planning to cash them in, I'm trying to keep myself cheerful by telling myself it's only a paper losss. But I'd also appreciate some paper gains soon !

ed123_2

......0%...loss....as I am 100% cash....every person I meet have had some level of loss re equity "investments"...I guess the drop in pension fund investment in equities to approx. 55% in recent years could be telling us something......

beingjdc

I'm down around 20% from the peak value of my investments at Christmas-ish. They're only a little over 10% of my total savings though, so I've lost maybe 2% of my net worth, plus opportunity cost of what it would have earnt in the bank. No big deal.

dunstonh

every person I meet have had some level of loss re equity "investments"

Over what period? I'm significantly up over savings rates since I started investing.

I guess the drop in pension fund investment in equities to approx. 55% in recent years could be telling us something......

People are using better quality investment strategies by incorporating property and fixed interest funds and not going 100% equity....

LongTermLurker

dunstonh wrote: »

Over what period? I'm significantly up over savings rates since I started investing.

To be fair, the topic of conversation is "how much have you lost since the financial crisis began?" so it'd be unfair to concentrate on gains made over the past 10 or 20 years. To be honest though, I'd find it hard to say, because it would take significant research to check what all my investments were worth last summer.

alm71

My investments are down approx 35%. £7000 total loss