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Ifts

Emperor2014 wrote: »

Thanks for answering my questions, very much appreciated... i'm a beginner @ buying shares :T

If I was beginning share dealing today the one thing I would do differently is - I would make sure that I use up my S&S Isa allowance each year.

I regretted not doing that sooner when you have been fortunate enough to buy shares that have gone on to be 5 and 10 baggers then CGT is a pain (a nice pain but one that is avoidable!) but there is no CGT when you buy and sell shares through your S&S Isa.

sabretoothtigger

Monday February 10 

INTERIMS 
Green Reit, Renewable Energy Generation Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Harmonised Competitiveness Indicators (EU) (09:00) 

FINALS 
Catlin Group Ltd. 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Ashley (Laura) Holding 

AGMS 
Impax Asset Management Group 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
ITE Group, Paragon Group Of Companies 

Tuesday February 11 

INTERIMS 
DotDigital Group, Dunelm Group, Hargreaves Services, Mcbride 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Wholesales Inventories (US) (15:00) 

FINALS 
Barclays 

IMSS 
Babcock International Group, Cable & Wireless Communications, Thomas Cook Group 

AGMS 
Blackrock Income And Growth Investment Trust, RWS Holdings 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bellway 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BRC Sales Monitor (00:01) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Dunedin Smaller Companies Inv Trust 

Wednesday February 12 

INTERIMS 
Avanti Communications Group, Frontier Developments, Town Centre Securities 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Henderson Smaller Companies Inv Trust, Ideagen, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 1 'C' Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 1 'D' Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 1 E Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 1 F Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 1 G Shs, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 2 'C' Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 2 'D' Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 2 E Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 2 F Shares, Ingenious Entertainment VCT 2 G Shs, Jupiter Primadona Growth Trust, Murgitroyd Group, Penna Consulting 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Boeing Co, BP, MedicX Fund Ltd., Picton Property Income Ltd, Royal Dutch Shell 'A', Royal Dutch Shell 'B' 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 
Industrial Production (EU) (10:00) 
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00) 
Treasury Budget Statement (US) (19:00) 

Q4 
Norsk Hydro ASA, Smurfit Kappa Group 

GMS 
Northern 2 VCT 

FINALS 
African Barrick Gold , Norsk Hydro ASA, Orange Polska S.A. GDR (Reg S), Reckitt Benckiser Group, Sampo OYJ, Smurfit Kappa Group, Telecity Group, Tullow Oil 

IMSS 
Atkins (WS) 

EGMS 
OJSC Phosagro GDR (Regs) 

AGMS 
F&C Capital & Income Inv Trust, Income & Growth VCT 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BoE Inflation Report (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Octopus VCT 3, Octopus VCT 4 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Blackrock Income And Growth Investment Trust, Future, JPMorgan Russian Securities, Octopus Eclipse VCT 1, Pressure Technologies, Sage Group, Terra Capital 

Thursday February 13 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45) 
Business Inventories (US) (13:30) 
Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
ECB Report (EU) (09:00) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
Manufacturing Inventories (US) (15:00) 
Retail Sales (US) (13:45) 
Retail Sales Inventories (US) (15:15) 

Q4 
Lancashire Holdings Limited, Shire Plc 

FINALS 
Amec, Lancashire Holdings Limited, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Advanced Materials , New World Resources A Shares, Rio Tinto, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Shire Plc, SVG Capital 

IMSS 
Imperial Tobacco Group, Norcros 

AGMS 
Blackrock North American Income Trust , easyJet, LXB Retail Properties, Pressure Technologies 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RICS Housing Market Survey (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Cardiff Property, Conygar Investment Company, Euromoney Institutional Investor 

Friday February 14 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Anite, Consort Medical, CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities Ltd EURO, CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities Ltd GBP, QinetiQ Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
British Land Co 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (EU) (10:00) 
Capacity Utilisation (US) (16:30) 
GDP (Flash Estimate) (EU) (10:00) 
Gross Domestic Product (GER) (07:00) 
Import and Export Price Indexes (US) (13:30) 
Industrial Production (US) (16:15) 
U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (14:55) 

Q4 
Afarak Group (DI) 

FINALS 
Afarak Group (DI), Anglo American, Coca-Cola HBC AG (CDI), Heavitree Brewery, Hrvatske Telekom D.D GDR (Reg S), Riverstone Energy Limited 

EGMS 
BlueCrest AllBlue Fund Ltd. GBP Shares, Qannas Investments Ltd 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Numis Corporation, Shaftesbury

Nick_C

Ifts wrote: »

If I was beginning share dealing today the one thing I would do differently is - I would make sure that I use up my S&S Isa allowance each year.

I regretted not doing that sooner when you have been fortunate enough to buy shares that have gone on to be 5 and 10 baggers then CGT is a pain (a nice pain but one that is avoidable!) but there is no CGT when you buy and sell shares through your S&S Isa.

I totally agree. My mid January, my capital gains for this tax year had reached £10,560 on 10 shares that I bought for £34K (and sold for £44k).

I'm currently avoiding selling any more shares until after 6 April.

Its a nice problem to have, but I'm going to fully use my ISA allowance now, and transfer shares across from my main portfolio to my S&S ISA each year.

Biggles

Nick_C wrote: »

I'm currently avoiding selling any more shares until after 6 April.

Its a nice problem to have, but I'm going to fully use my ISA allowance now, and transfer shares across from my main portfolio to my S&S ISA each year.

I'm in the same boat. Trouble is, I mainly invest in small companies, and AIM shares weren't allowed in ISAs until recently. Now that they are, I'm trying to unload them slowly and put the proceeds in my ISA.

It's a shame you can't actually transfer shares across into ISAs in the way that you say, I'd rather stay with some of the shares I hold; but instead I shall probably have to sell at the 'wrong' time in order to utilise my annual allowance. Even so, unless they put the allowance up or I'm very creative, it's going to take me another five years.

dealsearcher

The FTSE is getting very peaky again, getting up above 6800. It has never returned to the 6990 it achieved in December 1999. It has only managed to reach around 6840 since then before crashing back down. Is it going to finally get back up there again now?

WatsonNimrod

dealsearcher wrote: »

The FTSE is getting very peaky again, getting up above 6800. It has never returned to the 6990 it achieved in December 1999. It has only managed to reach around 6840 since then before crashing back down. Is it going to finally get back up there again now?

Been interesting seeing the market reaction to the slightest hint of bad news, particularly in some of the Blue Sky stocks over the last few weeks. It does remind me a bit on just before the last correction but I'm no expert, just an observer!

Surely there are far too many companies out there now with such an inflated value that something has to give?

sabretoothtigger

It has never returned to the 6990 it achieved in December 1999

This is a fallacy. To measure the value 1999 and now, we have to include value of Sterling which of course declines every year.
Also a big factor is the dividends paid out each year.

So have we got past 1999 in value yes, as a plain number no but that doesnt mean anything

dealsearcher

I would have thought you would have to include inflation which devalues all currencies. So a figure of 6990 in December 1999 would be worth a lot more than the same figure for the FTSE today.


To say that sterling is continually devaluing is assuming all other currencies are automatically increasing in value against sterling.

sabretoothtigger

Its an inaccuracy either way. So the whole thing is deceptive unfortunately and the simple figure cant be relied on. A better method is the FTSE trust funds which accumulate income and reinvest it, they'll give an all in one figure.


[blue is more real but deduct your rise in fuel is also fair imo]

Regarding currencies, for judging investment they are all unreliable also and recently we've done our best to devalue in line with others. So Japan, europe, UK and USA central banks deliberately act together for the reason you state; it would look bad for one alone
Its still a devaluation because the costs rise of buying real things

JohnRo

dealsearcher wrote: »

To say that sterling is continually devaluing is assuming all other currencies are automatically increasing in value against sterling.

In the same way the first skydiver to pull the cord shoots upward. It's all relative and they're all still hurtling towards the ground.

It's just a difference in terminology thing I suspect. Inflation in it's proper sense is the right term for increasingly worthless fiat currency?