Your Best Investments?

cooperj

The investment ideas and tackle the challenge of finding the best safe investments. My best investment ideas in the stock department focus on stock funds. Do not go heavily into the more aggressive funds that invest primarily in growth and/or small company stocks. These pay little if anything in dividend income and tend to be more risky and volatile than the average stock fund. Go with funds that invest in high quality large-company stocks with excellent dividend paying histories. ....

musehead

Got into matched betting via here and rpoints in 2005, leading onto casino bonus bagging.

Best investment ever, don't think it would be so easy these days though.

The_Hurricane

musehead wrote: »

Got into matched betting via here and rpoints in 2005, leading onto casino bonus bagging.

Best investment ever, don't think it would be so easy these days though.

How much have you made?

planteria

great. really pleased that worked out so well for you.

The_Hurricane

Do people still gee that gold is a worthwhile investment today or are investors pursuing other avenues?

IronWolf

I dont see gold as a good investment now, but I never have done. I prefer cash generating assets.

planteria

IronWolf wrote: »

Yes I sold out of them when I thought they were fair value, didnt really want to hold a fashion retailer long term.

sounds like a good strategy to me. i wouldn't either. one of my neighbours made a lot of money riding Burberry up & up, but sold out entirely a few months ago.

Nick_C

Best current investment - 100 shares in Resolution at 213.25 last October. Currently worth 297.3, so a gain close to 40%. Unexpected, as I bought these shares for income - they are yielding 9.9% (based on the price I paid)

Worst current investment, 1500 shares in Avocet Mining, bought at 66p in January and now worth 6.7p :-( But they were bought as a pure gamble.

Worst investment ever - Bradford & Bingley, £500 worth as a gamble about a month before they went bankrupt. These are the only shares that I've lost money on so far. I don't count losses or gains on shares that I'm still holding.

Best investment ever - buying my Council flat.

sabretoothtigger

The_Hurricane wrote: »

Do people still gee that gold is a worthwhile investment today or are investors pursuing other avenues?

Its a metal block, so impossible to invest in unless you make jewellery from it and then that would be your own skill and labour really

You can save some, hoping as an inert element it will keep its value Picky I know but they are different objectives, gold cannot 'make' money.
Nothing worse then false praise or pointless criticism and gold poor buddy gets thats alot

Resolution

Complicated bag of bones that one. Ive wanted to buy it also but its down to the skill of the guy running I guess and in this case a nice ftse rise

B&B was one of my best. Because I got them for zero, saved 1 weeks entire wages instead of spending it even though I was redundant by then. Got a nice rate and + shares by being a member.

Sold them for £3 because I did not why they rose so much, to this day its strange how carried away they all got.
Put the money into SL also had those free from starting a stakeholder pension and being a member. They paid out 5% pa also plus they rose decent also, all in all I was lucky

The_Hurricane

I would like to get more involved in some of the investments mentioned mentioned above.

My portfolio is fairly limited, I dabble in property, I have a few premium bonds and I might buy an antique item or something that catches my eye and sell it on at a profit - doesn't always come off though.