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Equities Strategy
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The questions were about people's strategies for investing into equities and the comments in his reply were were about what types of shares / companies he would aim to invest in and some approaches he would take.ValiantSon wrote: »Perhaps wrongly, I assumed that he wasn't recommending investing in individual companies as that would be crazily high risk for a small investor (and especially one new to investing), so I took all comments to be about funds.
Sometimes you just have to read the questions and the answers as written rather than read into them what you think the questions and answers should be.
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stphnstevey wrote: »There seems to be a fair number of intelligent investors on here that have turned there hand to equities
How do you invest in equities and what strategies do you use?
Use funds or investment trusts so you get the benefits of diversity.
Don't try to pick individual stocks yourself IMHO.0 -
bowlhead99 wrote: »The questions were about people's strategies for investing into equities and the comments in his reply were were about what types of shares / companies he would aim to invest in and some approaches he would take.
Sometimes you just have to read the questions and the answers as written rather than read into them what you think the questions and answers should be.
I think that for most of us, the essential strategy for equity investing is to use an equity-based collective vehicle (OIEC; Investment Trust; ETF) to spread the risk. That is of course just the starting point...0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »This applies to funds not directly investing into equities. Totally different scenarios.
Well, maybe...
I wonder how many of us could have distinguished between BP and RBS. And if such a distinction is not possible, then a 'buy and hold' strategy is going to make sense, obviously with sufficient diversification so that an individual company failing is not going to result in disaster for the portfolio.0 -
Keep it simple...a multi asset low cost global fund like Vanguard Lifestrategy will get the job done for many. Be sure to match you level of equities with your appetite for risk/volatility.0
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And if you do decide to look into individual shares, learn about stop losses0
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stphnstevey wrote: »There seems to be a fair number of intelligent investors on here that have turned there hand to equities
How do you invest in equities and what strategies do you use?
I put about half of my gross income into broad-based trackers, then avoid looking at it.0 -
I don't invest in individual equites as I neither have the time or the skill to do a good job of it.
That's why I prefer leaving it to someone who does have the time and the skill, a good fund manager.
It works for me.0 -
Honestly no one can teach you how to pick and choose equities on a bulletin board. I learnt it all the hard way when l started investing late 2008 during one of the worst recessions in our lifetime.
I was perhaps very lucky to miss allot of the carnage of companies going bust and put most of my offset mortgage into a plethora of FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 stocks that l felt would survive the recession. l used Wikipedia (the full list of company members are there) and FT stock filter to help me build a portfolio.
It was a baptism of fire l can tell you that!
I made plenty of mistakes along the way with one company going bust and numerous companies raising cash via rights issues and open offers. But l learnt a heck of allot as well it was probably for me the best time to learn the markets and made my best returns to date during 2009.
To this date l still find it fun hunting out companies from the two main markets. But it's handwork researching. Think of it as another hobby as it will consume your time.
Check out the Naked Trader book on investing if you're serious.
If you're only after safe and paltry returns invest in a fund.0 -
inflationbuster wrote: »
If you're only after safe and paltry returns invest in a fund.
I manage about 20% a year, almost entirely from funds.I am one of the Dogs of the Index.0
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