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In Support of Specialisation

15/10/2020

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This Blog builds on one I wrote back on the 3rd September 2020 on the subject of focus and specialisation, which you can read here:
 
https://wheeliedealer.weebly.com/educational-blogs/screening-out-to-reduce-your-opportunity-set
 
I doubt this will be all that long (as usual with my Blogs, I tend to have little idea of how much will be in them until I actually crack on and get some text down on my electronic paper), and the approach I am using is to take some text from an excellent article that Chris Dillow wrote in ‘Investors Chronicle’ on 9th August 2019 on page 18 with the title ‘Is ethical investing doomed?’, and then I will add my own comments around this text (Chris’ text is in italic).
 
Don’t be fooled by the title of Chris’ article, I am not really focusing on the ethical funds but more the principles around what Chris is saying. Perhaps there will be the side-benefit that we can learn something about ethical funds as a bonus !!


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Guest Blog from Ian Shadrack – Steps to Achieving Financial Bliss

15/7/2020

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One of the unexpected, yet without doubt most personally beneficial, side-effects of me starting the whole WD thing many years ago, is how I have met up with loads of wonderful people, such as Ian Shadrack (@IanShadrack on the Tweets) who it turns out lives just a short distance away from me in Windsor.
 
WD Readers should be pleased to see that Ian has kindly provided me with this Guest Blog which is certainly worth reading through, and if you like, Ian can offer a free 30 minute chat about how you can get the most from your finances. He can be contacted at ianshadrack@gmail.com
 
Ian has been investing in the stock market for over 25 years and from many discussions with him over beers, I can tell he knows his stuff. He is a qualified accountant who has worked for several blue-chip companies such as BT, Vodafone and Virgin Media. He now provides financial coaching to people who are looking to set and achieve financial goals such as early retirement. Please note I have no commercial relationship with Ian although I am sure he will buy me beers in the future and vice versa !!
 
Big, bold, THANKS to Ian for sending this text over to me.
 
I hope you like it, WD.


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How to use Funds in the most effective way

28/5/2020

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From various comments on Twitter recently it is pretty clear to me that some thoughts on how to use Funds to best effect would be worthwhile. This should be fairly straightforward to write so I am diving straight in without a plan but I have been mulling it over for a while.
 
If you nip over to the ‘Funds’ page on my Website (it might be on WD2 – I really can’t remember !!), then that has some definitions on it with regards to what the various types of Funds are and it also has an example Portfolio which is based on something I constructed with a Friend a few years ago for her own Investing. Recently she has sold about 80% of this Portfolio because she is moving house and I must get around to confirming with her what she still holds. Anyway, that Portfolio example does give an indication of how you can diversify across Funds if you have a Portfolio that only uses Funds and has no Individual Shares in it. 


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Guest Blog from Phil Sloan - A New Reality for Dividend Investors?

29/4/2020

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My mate Phil (@sloan_phil on the Tweets) has kindly provided this Guest Blog following the recent events regarding cuts to Dividends and his action in reviewing and rejigging his Income Portfolio. I have read it a couple of times for proofing and all that and it is really good and has some excellent insights into investing in US Stocks.
 
Many thanks to Phil for providing WD Readers with this and a personal thank you for saving me a load of work in writing a blog this week !!
 
Cheers, WD.
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Pound Cost Averaging or Ravaging?

5/3/2020

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Fairly recently I caused a bit of a stir on the Tweets when I suggested that People who have regular payment plans into Funds (normally Unit Trusts – see my ‘Funds’ page for definitions of what the different types of Funds actually are), might be wise to suspend the automatic payments prior to the Coronavirus problems when it is highly likely that we could see Stockmarkets really struggling.
 
I got a lot of flak for this and it is very understandable why because there are maybe some advantages of such drip-feeding over time; but for me personally, I wouldn’t do this at all. But then I am perhaps a different type of Investor to many others and there is an element of ‘Horses for Courses’.

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The Joy of Income Portfolios - Part 3 of 5

1/11/2017

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If you haven’t read Parts 1 and 2 yet, then scroll back down my Blog Page a tiny bit and you should find them very easily.

Features of an ideal Dividend Stock
There are many aspects and features that make a particular Stock suitable for an Income Portfolio - the following spring to mind as things to consider:
  • Fit with Portfolio - I am sure I have mentioned this before in this Blog epic but I see it as an important point to stress. It is vital that any Stock under consideration as a potential candidate for the Portfolio will fit nicely within the overall Portfolio and not result in over-exposure to a particular theme or sector. Any new Stock must add to the diversity to lower Risk of the overall Portfolio rather than to add to the Risk. It is not simply good enough to buy perhaps 12 Stocks which have high dividend yields etc. - they must be considered as a whole and as a complementary and supportive Basket of Stocks. It is the overall Risk of the Portfolio which matters, not that of the Individual Stocks themselves. Think in terms of a ‘Blended Risk’.


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Guest Blog from Phil Sloan - How to Protect your P2P earnings from Tax: The IFISA

22/3/2017

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Kindly Phil has written another P2P related Blog for us and again it includes some links to Special Deals where you can get a Discount and Phil and myself get a small slice as well. Please note these can be High Risk Investments and if in doubt you should consult with a qualified Financial Advisor - we make no recommendation with regards to suitability for you and we are not qualified or FCA regulated. If this is new to you then make sure you read Phil’s previous Guest Blog and you will find within that one some Lower Risk P2P Investments like Zopa and Ratesetter.

Cheers, WD.



In my first article for Wheelie’s Website last month I wrote about the 'how's and ‘why's' of P2P (Peer to Peer), and if you're unfamiliar with the area it might be worth you reading my first article, paying particular attention to the risks involved:

http://wheeliedealer.weebly.com/blog/guest-blog-peer-to-peer-lending-worthy-of-consideration-in-an-environment-of-low-interest-rates-and-rich-stockmarket-valuations


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Guest Blog - Investors Chronicle Growth Seminar

12/10/2016

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The Guest Blog below comes from a good mate of mine who attended an Investors Chronicle event recently in London. Very kindly he offered it up for a wider Audience and now he is extremely famous, but in an Anonymous kind of manner !!

Anyway, a huge (and Bold) THANK YOU on behalf of all WD readers to ‘you know who you are’.

It’s very much appreciated, WD.



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Diversification - am I enjoying too much of a Good Thing? Part 3 of 3

9/12/2015

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Why is Diversity Good?
  • I am sure most Readers will be fully aware that if you hold a bunch of Stocks, you have the advantage that gains from the good Stocks will outweigh the losses from the poor performing Stocks - obviously just holding 1 or 2 Stocks is pretty much suicidal. However, this of course is very much linked to the number of holdings - for example, if you hold just 5 Stocks there is a very real Risk that 2 of them could Blow-up badly and you will make a loss overall on the Portfolio (especially if you focus on Small Caps and AIM). Whereas if you hold 100 Stocks then you will pretty much just track the overall Markets and will have a Management/Administration nightmare. I have gone into this whole subject many times before in various Blogs so I won’t dwell much more, but probably the minimum sensible number of Stocks to hold is around 15 and probably 40 is really the maximum (that is lucky, cos I am aiming to get down to the WD40 !!). It is also my view that only very experienced and successful Investors can get away with holding just 15 Stocks - it is much more Risky than people realise and it just takes a couple of Errors to murder your Returns. As recent weeks in the Stockmarket have shown me mercilessly on Stocks like Entertainment One ETO, Telit Communications TCM, Utilitywise UTW, Brady BRY, Black Swans can swoop in at any time and cause devastation. I would bet that most people with extremely concentrated Portfolios massively over-estimate their Stockpicking and Portfolio Management Skills.

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