With looming benefits arising from departure from the EU and people with savings facing minimal or negative interest rates, buying shares may be an attracive alternative. HGV drivers are in a good position to see which companies are performing well and are well managed. Stobart have had a rough ride but at 20p (valuing the Co at £5m) do they represent a good recovery speculation? Or do you deliver to any other possibles?
At times of trouble the Rumour Mills normally do well.
I don’t believe in…
Picking just one company to bury my cash in. Sure, if things go well then you benefit but you also suffer if problems arise.
Get a few companies that you think will do well and make long term investments.
Optimum:
people with savings facing minimal or negative interest rates
Hasn’t it been like that for about 12 years already?
yourhavingalarf:
I don’t believe in…Picking just one company to bury my cash in. Sure, if things go well then you benefit but you also suffer if problems arise.
Get a few companies that you think will do well and make long term investments.
Motor manufacturers: We’ll have to scrap petrol/derv and get elec.
Property/land: they’ve stopped making it
Delivery services: to replace high streets
Lithium/Helium producers: Batteries
Gold
Geriatric products: Aging population. Stair lifts.
Food, waste & funerals. Because people need to eat, they produce waste & will eventually die. Alternatively, depending how long you can commit your money for, mid to long term government bonds - all this debt has to be paid back after all!
This advice is taken at your own risk. (The only bit of any merit)
Optimum:
HGV drivers are in a good position to see which companies are performing well and are well managed.
You can tell all of that from the goods in window? Wow.
Stobart have had a rough ride but at 20p (valuing the Co at £5m) do they represent a good recovery speculation? Or do you deliver to any other possibles?
Only if you think a company which had to take an emergency loan of £55m at 18% interest rate from investors has a long term secure future. And yes I mean Stobarts - they had to take that loan last year to prevent them being wound up. I’d not call that performing well and being well managed.
Be an idea buy shares in Andrex. As the masses are stockpiling them again…
On serious note. And I’m no financial advisor.
But I reckon airline shares might be worthwile. Ryanair easy Jet…
Think about it shares are probably at an all time low…
And next year when covid starts to slow down and it becomes safer.
The 1st thing we’re all going to do is book a holiday get away.
Optimum:
yourhavingalarf:
I don’t believe in…Picking just one company to bury my cash in. Sure, if things go well then you benefit but you also suffer if problems arise.
Get a few companies that you think will do well and make long term investments.
Motor manufacturers: We’ll have to scrap petrol/derv and get elec.
Property/land: they’ve stopped making it
Delivery services: to replace high streets
Lithium/Helium producers: Batteries
Gold
Geriatric products: Aging population. Stair lifts.
Interest rates have crashed because they’ve stopped making decent incomes to afford them.Although the difference between lending and savings rates suggests it’s more a form of tax on savings to bail out the banks and government debt.
Can’t afford the interest on a loan then can’t afford to buy stuff.
Home shopping is based on exploition of mugs willing to do 100 + drops in a 10 hour shift for a Mars bar and a packet of crisps.It’s unsustainable.
Many of those needing a stairlift will be faced with the choice of pay for their funeral or a stairlift.Often not being around long enough to need it anyway.
The race to the bottom has probably gone past the point of no return.
edd1974:
Be an idea buy shares in Andrex. As the masses are stockpiling them again…
Funnily enough I’ve just delivered 2 pallets of Andrex to Lincoln B&Q.
Back in March when panic buying was at its height, I was delivering to B&Q Sudbury (near Bury St.Eds) and there was 1 pallet of bog roll on the back. So while the forkie was unloading the trailer I nipped next door to Tesco to get a loaf of bread. While I was at the checkout I got chatting with a woman and mentioned the bog roll delivery at B&Q, so after I left tesco with the bread I noticed the woman following me towards B&Q along with several other people, but I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I wasn’t delivering it there, but to another store at Haverhill. The warehouseman there said that it wouldn’t even see the shop floor as the staff would snap it up.
edd1974:
But I reckon airline shares might be worthwile. Ryanair easy Jet…
Think about it shares are probably at an all time low…
And next year when covid starts to slow down and it becomes safer.
The 1st thing we’re all going to do is book a holiday get away.
Airline shares especially those of the budget airlines have tanked and are unlikely to be any good for several years.
The holiday package companies have never been a good investment due to the season nature of their work, that’s why Thomson went ■■■■ up. As investors wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole
I recently heard of an airline pilot who has trained to become a truck driver, no kidding. That’s the state of the airline industry.
As far as things getting back to a situation where people are going abroad on holiday, I can’t see that happening anytime in the next year, so it’s probably a non-starter for most people unless you’re like relatives of mine who went abroad this month: they’re retired and had no problems isolating for two weeks when they got back.
Hi,
Dont forget, if you buy Blue Chip shares FTSE 30 or FTSE 100, you would normally receive two dividend payments per year which can be taken either as cash or as extra shares in the company concerned.
Well worth considering.
Conor:
Optimum:
HGV drivers are in a good position to see which companies are performing well and are well managed.You can tell all of that from the goods in window? Wow.
Stobart have had a rough ride but at 20p (valuing the Co at £5m) do they represent a good recovery speculation? Or do you deliver to any other possibles?
Only if you think a company which had to take an emergency loan of £55m at 18% interest rate from investors has a long term secure future. And yes I mean Stobarts - they had to take that loan last year to prevent them being wound up. I’d not call that performing well and being well managed.
Somebody must have great faith/confidence and insist on high standards to lend them £55k at the same rate that you pay on an overdue credit card.
No StoFARTS is a bad investment.
The only sure thing is that if you leave 10k in the bank for 5 years at current interest rates and dont touch it, in 5 years time it will have grown to around a massive 
10,050 although you wont be able to buy with it what you could at the start of the 5 years due to inflation and low interest rates, so in reality it has lost value in 5 years.
Be better off going the casino putting it all on black.
(Am I allowed to say that there day without causing offence?)
hcobain:
Hi,
Dont forget, if you buy Blue Chip shares FTSE 30 or FTSE 100, you would normally receive two dividend payments per year which can be taken either as cash or as extra shares in the company concerned.
Well worth considering.
Problem is share price will drop on dividend day and no guarantee it will recover to previous level.
edd1974:
Be better off going the casino putting it all on black.(Am I allowed to say that there day without causing offence?)
Hedge your bets: half on black, half on red.
Easy! 
No, “eggs in one basket” as had been said can be a big winner, or loser. If you want to invest the best thing for most people is a managed unit trust in an ISA.
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