Orbis £100 match offer - Now Ended

veryintrigued

a_silver_lining wrote: »

Just want to say thank you to the original poster. I have never invested before so this was a great way to see how you can loose money!! But on the plus side it only ate into my £100 top up, so from a £100 punt I have gained a year later £73.37

Loose money?

That's a Freudian for sure!

mamabuddah

a_silver_lining wrote: »

Just want to say thank you to the original poster. I have never invested before so this was a great way to see how you can loose money!! But on the plus side it only ate into my £100 top up, so from a £100 punt I have gained a year later £73.37

There may be more to be added after February, so I’m holding on for another 4 weeks.

Alexland

a_silver_lining wrote: »

Just want to say thank you to the original poster. I have never invested before so this was a great way to see how you can loose money!! But on the plus side it only ate into my £100 top up, so from a £100 punt I have gained a year later £73.37

Remember the account valuation is not showing the circa 5% distribution (similar to a dividend) you are owed for holding the fund at the begining of January due to be added into the account by the end of Feburary so the loss if you cash in now won't be that bad.

Still goes to show that investment is a long term activity with ups and downs along the way.

Alex

Alexland

Our GIAs are past 12 months now so yesterday I got bored and sold down our funds at £186 and will wait for the circa 5% distribution to be added into the account with automatic reinvestment switched off. So for us the GIAs will have yielded around £95 profit each.

stphnstevey

Alexland wrote: »

Our GIAs are past 12 months now so yesterday I got bored and sold down our funds at £186 and will wait for the circa 5% distribution to be added into the account with automatic reinvestment switched off. So for us the GIAs will have yielded around £95 profit each.

Havent kept up with the thread but thought it started out this might actually be a good company to invest with due to their structure of fees?

Alexland

stphnstevey wrote: »

Havent kept up with the thread but thought it started out this might actually be a good company to invest with due to their structure of fees?

Yes but we don't need the GIAs they were purely for the bonus. We are keeping the Junior ISA. Value investments and have suffered in recent market conditions but have historically outperformed over the long term.

Alex

fiisch

Anyone else had problems logging in today?

Noticed my SIPP (Vanguard 100) had enjoyed a fairly hefty bump today, so wanted to see how it compared with my Orbis account.... Missing my bi-monthly *cough* daily *cough* fix of checking of how it's performing.

veryintrigued

Looking forward to seeing the extra distribution at the end of Feb.

My return across the two funds is -£190 with the value standing at £1900 so it'll be interesting to see how the distribution affects this.

Still no news on any new bonuses?

Alexland

You should be able to calculate your distribution by multiplying the number of fund units you held in early January (on the statement page) by the estimated distribution per unit for your funds (on the overview page) which should work out to be around 5%.

We have a second child due to be born in early April so it would be good if they offer the matched £100 on a new Junior ISA again.

Alex

Temrael

Looks like the "distributions" are being made now.

I now have a pending order "Distribution reinvestment of £10.27 into Global Balanced Fund". Should be withdrawable in a day or so I guess.