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wmb194 said:Uh-huh. It takes two opinions to make a market but it's still a terrible company and Germany is Vodafone's most important market and it isn't doing very well there. Btw, Motley Fool says almost everything's worth a punt so I'd be careful listening to its suggestions.0
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sevenhills said:wmb194 said:Uh-huh. It takes two opinions to make a market but it's still a terrible company and Germany is Vodafone's most important market and it isn't doing very well there. Btw, Motley Fool says almost everything's worth a punt so I'd be careful listening to its suggestions.
I don't need Investors Chronicle to tell me to hold ; I intend to do so and to continue receiving the company dividends. And Vodaphone is nowhere near to being one of my star companies ( although to call it a "terrible company" doesn't sound like the language of a someone too au fait with the language of finance).0 -
Richard1212 said:sevenhills said:wmb194 said:Uh-huh. It takes two opinions to make a market but it's still a terrible company and Germany is Vodafone's most important market and it isn't doing very well there. Btw, Motley Fool says almost everything's worth a punt so I'd be careful listening to its suggestions.
I don't need Investors Chronicle to tell me to hold ; I intend to do so and to continue receiving the company dividends. And Vodaphone is nowhere near to being one of my star companies ( although to call it a "terrible company" doesn't sound like the language of a someone too au fait with the language of finance).1 -
Richard1212 said:sevenhills said:wmb194 said:Uh-huh. It takes two opinions to make a market but it's still a terrible company and Germany is Vodafone's most important market and it isn't doing very well there. Btw, Motley Fool says almost everything's worth a punt so I'd be careful listening to its suggestions.
I don't need Investors Chronicle to tell me to hold ; I intend to do so and to continue receiving the company dividends. And Vodaphone is nowhere near to being one of my star companies ( although to call it a "terrible company" doesn't sound like the language of a someone too au fait with the language of finance).
I notice you ignored the other points I made.0 -
wmb194 said:Richard1212 said:wmb194 said:Richard1212 said:I am a great believer in buying individual company shares------rather than using "Funds".
But, as everyone has already said, you have to do a lot of hard-slogging work and investigation to start off your portfolio. Assuming you gain more expertise , far more than Motley Fool ( !!! ), it is then best to hand over to a portfolio manager for day-to-day time-consuming detail. Of course, it all depends on how rich you are : you have to cut your cloth etc.
But now that I have a very large portfolio across 9 market sectors and it is managed expertly, I am even more sure that I was wholly correct in purchasing individual shares rather than trusting to Funds that I have no control over in terms of my or my advisors' own investigations and expertise.In a recent post on another thread you mentioned owning, "Vodaphone." That's a terrible company.Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.5
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