motley fool emails

masonic

ElephantBoy57 said:

Another_Saver said:

Have you noticed how every single article is recommending something different? Eventually they will have recommended everything, the only logical conclusion you can draw is "we have no idea what we're talking about" and by recommending everything they're advocating indexing.

Surely they are the professionals? They should be at least as good as the experts on this forum 

Professionals?

[Deleted User]

No reason to single out Motley Fool, any "overview" from a financial institution should go straight in the bin.
If you are unsure about the value of financial advice, prepositions are a giveaway: like, market rises on etc.. The market has risen, and etc has happened, that's all..

MovingForwards

My sibling keeps harping on about them and their latest headline, or how if X was invested in Y 10 years ago it would be worth Z now. Sibling hasn't grasped getting information from various sources, including here, and having a balanced portfolio to meet all objectives. Nor understood things go up / down / don't move and if something doesn't make a profit in a month it's sold by said sibling. For now I've managed to stall sibling buying into single shares and suggested playing with a S&S ISA for a few years before trying anything else.

csgohan4

Motley fool reminds me of a fool in the housing forums, who always predicts a crash. 

If one says it will rain tomorrow, they will be correct.. eventually

I find the FT more interesting, but sadly some articles are pay walled

Doshwaster

Motley Fool was a really useful website in the early 2000s and I learned a lot from their articles (and I've got one of their books somewhere)  when I first became interested in personal finance but they've become far too commercial so I hardly ever visit these days.  Once they shut down their forums I switched almost entirely to MSE.

Alexland

csgohan4 said:

I find the FT more interesting, but sadly some articles are pay walled

You probably already know this but if you google search the FT article title and click via the search results it will often show without the paywall. Similar with the Telegraph if you right click the page the whole article shows in the middle of the HTML source.

jimjames

Doshwaster said:

Motley Fool was a really useful website in the early 2000s and I learned a lot from their articles (and I've got one of their books somewhere)  when I first became interested in personal finance but they've become far too commercial so I hardly ever visit these days.  Once they shut down their forums I switched almost entirely to MSE.

Same here, although the book from 1999 actually got chucked out last week. When they recommended index trackers because most stockpicking failed to beat the index it seemed to make sense but then they started promoting stock picking against everything they'd previously said

csgohan4

Alexland said:

csgohan4 said:

I find the FT more interesting, but sadly some articles are pay walled

You probably already know this but if you google search the FT article title and click via the search results it will often show without the paywall. Similar with the Telegraph if you right click the page the whole article shows in the middle of the HTML source.

Great work around, thanks for the tip

Alexland

csgohan4 said:

Great work around, thanks for the tip

If only someone knows the way around The Times paywall....

Doshwaster

jimjames said:

Doshwaster said:

Motley Fool was a really useful website in the early 2000s and I learned a lot from their articles (and I've got one of their books somewhere)  when I first became interested in personal finance but they've become far too commercial so I hardly ever visit these days.  Once they shut down their forums I switched almost entirely to MSE.

Same here, although the book from 1999 actually got chucked out last week. When they recommended index trackers because most stockpicking failed to beat the index it seemed to make sense but then they started promoting stock picking against everything they'd previously said

Yes, I can't remember how I came across it but their Investment Guide was one of the most useful books I've ever read as back then I was a skint young graduate with no clue about money (I'd never had enough to be worried about it). It got me going with putting £50 month into a tracker,  starting a pension and on the way to buying my first house. Maybe it is due to be chucked out the next time I do a bookcase clearance as I'd imagine a lot of what is in there is fairly dated now.