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Scottish mortgage trust: a buy or a trap?

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  • masonic
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    Alexland said:
    masonic said:
    You can't invest what you've not yet earned.
    Well I guess most of us do, or have done, some upfront leveraged investment via the use of a mortgage but it would be a strange world if everyone calculated their expected lifetime investment account contributions and borrowed a lump sum to invest at the start which was calculated at a level for the loan to be only just affordable for the remainder of their workling lives. :smile:
    It would certainly be a wild ride to have a lifetime worth of capital at stake from the outset.
  • Alexland
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    masonic said:
    It would certainly be a wild ride to have a lifetime worth of capital at stake from the outset.
    It might also make people think more carefully about their investment choices if it was the only time they were allowed to buy!

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