Share Dealing Discussion Area

TRBob

I'm thinking about buying around £1000 of shares in Infinis, I'm not going to be making regular trades in shares otherwise. I've had a look at execution only dealers and I've found Sippdeal. I'm considering applying for their ISA to hold the shares in. There is no annual fee and the ISA has no fees associated with it, to buy the shares will cost £9.95. Have I missed anything and can anyone recommend a better dealer please?

Biggles

TRBob wrote: »

Have I missed anything

Well, you've missed the IPO, which would have saved you 10p a share, plus the dealing costs and the spread, which would have been a useful bonus for such a small investment.

But if you've done your research and have good reasons for buying, then fine. There's little need for an ISA if you aren't planning to make any other investments for the foreseeable, but as long as there are no fees and you don't need the allowance for a cash ISA, then there's no reason why not.

TRBob

Thanks Biggles, after re-reading my post I see that I didn't make it clear what I was referring to when I asked have I missed anything? What I meant is Sippdeal a good execution only trading site and if anyone else had any experience with them? Or is there a better site/company for what I want to do?

I maxed out my cash ISA earlier in the year and I'm willing to take a bit more of a risk for potential higher returns. Also my thinking behind getting a stocks and shares ISA is that I may end up investing more in shares if I see anything that looks like a good investment, but at the moment I'm just going to buy in Infinis. Yeah bit gutted about missing the IPO, but I only heard about it after the event unfortunately.

Trentenders

TRBob wrote: »

Thanks Biggles, after re-reading my post I see that I didn't make it clear what I was referring to when I asked have I missed anything? What I meant is Sippdeal a good execution only trading site and if anyone else had any experience with them? Or is there a better site/company for what I want to do?

I maxed out my cash ISA earlier in the year and I'm willing to take a bit more of a risk for potential higher returns. Also my thinking behind getting a stocks and shares ISA is that I may end up investing more in shares if I see anything that looks like a good investment, but at the moment I'm just going to buy in Infinis. Yeah bit gutted about missing the IPO, but I only heard about it after the event unfortunately.

I use Sippdeal and they're fine. Only small problem that I've ever had was when the site ground to a halt for a couple of hours a few weeks back (during the initial rush to sell Royal Mail shares).

stars_bright

My husband and I invested some money through an IFA who said the investment was guaranteed to return a min of 4%, backed by Deutsche bank, in Aria Income Protection funds. The investment did not perform as promised so we are not happy with IFA, who has been charging us 3% commission and our funds have gone down.
So we are thinking about doing our own investing but really have no idea where to start. Can anyone point me an an idiots guide on how to start and what to do?

sabretoothtigger

Read newspaper and their websites is usually a start.

Secure your house and its finance. FTSE tracker is common, problem is only an IFA can literally tell you whats good or bad otherwise you have to flip a coin yourself

Monday November 25 

INTERIMS 
Accsys Technologies, City of London Group, Cranswick, GB Group, Quintain Estates & Development, UBC Media Group 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Pending Homes Sales (US) (15:00) 

GMS 
Sarantel Group 'A' Shares 

FINALS 
Zambeef Products 

AGMS 
Aeorema Communications, Pantheon International Participations 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BBA Mortgage Lending Figures (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Avation, El Oro Ltd, JPMorgan Emerging Markets Inv Trust, Petmin Ltd. (DI) 

Tuesday November 26 

INTERIMS 
ACM Shipping Group, Caledonia Investments, Chamberlin, KCOM Group, Scapa Group, Severn Trent, VP 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
APR Energy, Hunting 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Building Permits (US) (13:30) 
Conference Board Consumer Confidence (US) (15:00) 
GDP (Preliminary) (US) (13:30) 
FHFA House Price Index (US) (14:00) 
S&P Case-Shiller House Price Index (US) (14:00) 
Housing Starts (US) (13:30) 

Q3 
Public Power GDR SA (Reg S), Signet Jewelers Ltd. 

FINALS 
Britvic, Cambria Automobiles, Mitchells & Butlers, Sanderson Group, Topps Tiles 

ANNUAL REPORT 
BowLeven 

AGMS 
Allocate Software, Base Resources Ltd , JPMorgan Smaller Companies Inv Trust, Range Resources Ltd. (DI), Wolseley 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Close Brothers Group 

Wednesday November 27 

INTERIMS 
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INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
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Personal Income (US) (13:30) 
Personal Spending (US) (13:30) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Final) (US) (15:00) 

Q2 
Real Estate Credit Investments PCC Ltd 

GMS 
Throgmorton Trust 

FINALS 
Shaftesbury 

IMSS 
Punch Taverns 

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Lancashire Holdings Limited, Ludgate Environmental Fund Ltd. 

EGMS 
Great Western Mining Corporation, Meikles Ltd., The Commercial Bank of Qatar (Q.S.C) GDR (Reg S) 

AGMS 
Baillie Gifford Japan Trust, Black Mountain Resources Ltd, Helphire Group, Impact Holdings, K3 Business Technology Group, Paragon Resources, Punch Taverns, Pure Wafer, Victoria Oil & Gas 

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CBI Distributive Trades Surveys (11:00) 
Q3 GDP, second estimate (output, income & expenditure) (09:30) 
Index of Services (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
AIREA, Kier Group 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
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Thursday November 28 

INTERIMS 
Creston, Digital Barriers, Helical Bar, Latham (James), LondonMetric Property, Mountview Estate, Pennon Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
IFG Group, Moss Bros Group, Restore 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Payments (GER) (07:00) 
Business Climate Indicator (EU) (10:00) 
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Consumer Price Index (EZ) (10:00) 
M3 Money Supply (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Retail (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Retail (GER) (08:55) 
Unemployment Rate (GER) (08:55) 
Policy announcement (Brazil) 

Q3 
Alpha Bank GDR (Reg S) USD 

GMS 
Mineral & Financial Investments Limited (DI) 

FINALS 
Impax Asset Management Group, Marston's 

AGMS 
Altona Energy, Harbourvest Senior Loans Europe Ltd., JPMorgan Global Markets Emerging Income Trust, Kea Petroleum, London Finance & Investment Group, Petra Diamonds Ltd.(DI), Scotgold Resources (DI), Thor Mining, VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Ltd., VinaLand Ltd 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Kingfisher 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Wetherspoon (J.D.) 

Q1 
Arrow Global Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Governor Carney to appear before Treasury Select Committee 

Friday November 29 

INTERIMS 
Max Property Group, RPC Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
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City of London Inv Trust, F&C Commercial Property Trust Ltd., Picton Property Income Ltd, Real Estate Credit Investments PCC Ltd 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
International Reserves (EU) (11:00) 
Retail Sales (GER) (07:00) 
Unemployment Rate (EU) (10:00) 
National CPI ex-perishables (JP) (07:30) 
Unemployment rate (JP) (07:30) 
Real Household Spending (JP) (07:30) 
Industrial Production (JP) (07:30) 

Q3 
Frontline Ld 

EGMS 
Hochschild Mining 

AGMS 
Aquarius Platinum Ltd., Creat Resources Holdings Ltd. (DI), Ferrum Crescent Ltd NPV (DI), Fidelity Asian Values, Finsbury Food Group, Firestone Diamonds, Forte Energy NL, Jubilee Platinum, Plutus Resources, Sacoil Holdings (DI) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Confidence (09:30) 
Consumer Credit (09:30) 
GFK Consumer Confidence (00:01) 
M4 Money Supply (09:30) 
M4 Sterling Lending (09:30) 
Mortgage Approvals (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Abcam, Aeorema Communications, Galliford Try, IndigoVision Group, JPMorgan Overseas Inv Trust, Mcbride, Sabien Technology Group 

stars_bright

Sorry to sound stupid - what do you mean by "secure your house and it's finance" ?

ChesterDog

stars_bright wrote: »

My husband and I invested some money through an IFA who said the investment was guaranteed to return a min of 4%, backed by Deutsche bank, in Aria Income Protection funds. The investment did not perform as promised so we are not happy with IFA, who has been charging us 3% commission and our funds have gone down.
So we are thinking about doing our own investing but really have no idea where to start. Can anyone point me an an idiots guide on how to start and what to do?

A thorough reading of Monevator.com will be enlightening.

crossways

I have 468 Aviva shares. Should I sell? Many thanks.

Biggles

crossways wrote: »

I have 468 Aviva shares. Should I sell? Many thanks.

Depends on your strategy. Why did you buy them originally?