Vodafone shares

IronWolf

Transactions in own shares are not sinister, but you should be mindful of how many shares are being issued to give to directors. Over time this dilution can aggregate into a meaningful amount, Ive seen cases where the number of shares is increasing by around 1% a year

melbury

Masomnia wrote: »

Financials like RSA and Aviva might be worth a look.

National grid maybe?

GSK's pretty sturdy.

RDS?

The above might be worth a look, if you want to go down the single share route.

I already have RSA, but will have a look at the others you mention.

jonnyb

bigfreddiel wrote: »

altho' this is interesting - all this wish i had bought at such and such a price its all far too time consuming and filled with risk

doesn't everyone realise it's a zero sum game?

its far easier and profitable to run a nicely diversified low cost tracker portfolio

fj

How low is low cost ? Just wondered what the annual management fee is.
My mum has a £19K portfolio, which has grown to £20K through div re-investment and capital growth, and only pays £32 per year for her selftrade fee.
Even a 0.5% management fee would be £100 !

grey_gym_sock

jonnyb wrote: »

How low is low cost ? Just wondered what the annual management fee is.
My mum has a £19K portfolio, which has grown to £20K through div re-investment and capital growth, and only pays £32 per year for her selftrade fee.
Even a 0.5% management fee would be £100 !

for direct investment in shares, you should also include as costs dealing commissions, stamp duty and bid-offer spread. to get that as an annual cost, first work out the total percentage cost of buying a share and selling it again (i.e. what percentage would you lose if the share price hasn't moved?); this will depend on your average deal size. then divide that percentage by the average number of years you hold a share to get an annual percentage cost.

add in your explicit annual fees (£32 in this case, so only 0.17%) for the total cost of direct investment.

for trackers, you should be able to get down to about 0.3%, perhaps lower. depending on what markets you want to track, as well as on the amount invested.