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Stocks & Shares ISAs - Seriously Worried about Losses

morriJ · 2022-04-27 12:46:22

I know very little about investing and this is my first post, so please be gentle with me. At the end of last year, due to the really low interest rates I was getting on my savings, I decided to open two Stocks and Shares ISAs (one for me and one for my other half). I put the max of 20K into each one, and because I knew so…

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ChilliBob Posts: 2,390 Forumite

30 April 2022 at 7:44AM

John464 said:

ranciduk said:

I’m not sitting back watching my hard earned erode week after week

Can I where you have put your hard earned where it won't erode week after week through inflation?

Well if you listen to Ramin of Pension craft, perhaps cheese is a good investment. Better returns than gold aparantly.

It wouldn't work for me, if be forever eating my investment, I don't have that problem with Index funds.

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