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M18CTID said:
Not sure whether it’s been mentioned on here but the Baillie Gifford American fund is worth a look and has been a cracking investment for me up to now. It’s up over 130% in the past 12 months!
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I've got 14% of my portfolio here which has contributed to 12.5% returns overall since May.
 
manchester blue said:
I've got 14% of my portfolio here which has contributed to 12.5% returns overall since May.
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They have been the stand out fund Manager this year. The American fund has shot the lights out but there are many others that have been top quartile and in some cases the top fund in their sector (Managed/European)

Clearly some talented people employed there.
 
RobMCFC said:
I’m new to all this, but I’ve been doing a bit of reading on solar energy and lithium batteries amongst others. To be honest, I couldn’t work out which we’re the best bets and the expert forecasts seemed to be at odds with each other with regards to individual companies.

So in the end, yesterday, I bought a few shares in an ETF covering the clean energy sector. INRG on the London Stock Exchange seemed to get favourable comments so that’s what I went for.
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I took a look at INRG and like the composition so bought in today. Looks well placed to do well.
 
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Bovril said:
Vanadium miner/VRFB company in my portfolio up 20% currently without news, it's all about fundamentals.
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I had a little look at the sector yesterday, seems very immature, only real plays I could see were miners, and not many pure play vanadium miners at that. Many private companies apparently so perhaps we could see some changes as the industry grows.

I’ve put Invinity Energy Systems (batteries), and Energy Fuels Inc on my watch list. The latter seems to be doing well but they’re mainly into mining Uranium. I also put Glencore on too, they don’t have a massive Vanadium mining operation but a good spread across metals...but they are good value right now due to the slowdown in industry.
 
DenisLawBackHeel74 said:
I had a little look at the sector yesterday, seems very immature, only real plays I could see were miners, and not many pure play vanadium miners at that. Many private companies apparently so perhaps we could see some changes as the industry grows.

I’ve put Invinity Energy Systems (batteries), and Energy Fuels Inc on my watch list. The latter seems to be doing well but they’re mainly into mining Uranium. I also put Glencore on too, they don’t have a massive Vanadium mining operation but a good spread across metals...but they are good value right now due to the slowdown in industry.
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Take a look at Bushveld Minerals BMN, (Who have Invinity in their portfolio), although a South African company (I know), they are the 3rd largest Vanadium miner in the World and have another large mine (Mokapane) to come on line. Take a look at the Bushveldperspective for a start to research, it is quite useful. Good luck.
 
Hes the left back remember said:
Novice here. What is best platform to buy stocks? Been looking at Etoro with no commission.
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It depends what you're looking for. Etoro is good for stock picking (which is very close to gambling and should only be done with money you're happy to lose).

If you're investing for a long-term goal or retirement, I use Vanguard UK. They have some great index funds that are cheap such as their life-strategy funds.
 
Bovril said:
Take a look at Bushveld Minerals BMN, (Who have Invinity in their portfolio), although a South African company (I know), they are the 3rd largest Vanadium miner in the World and have another large mine (Mokapane) to come on line. Take a look at the Bushveldperspective for a start to research, it is quite useful. Good luck.
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Yes I saw that (relationship between the two). There is something ‘funny’ going on with invinity shares (share price offer to existing holders)....staying out of that until I understand the sector a bit more.
 
Bovril said:
Take a look at Bushveld Minerals BMN, (Who have Invinity in their portfolio), although a South African company (I know), they are the 3rd largest Vanadium miner in the World and have another large mine (Mokapane) to come on line. Take a look at the Bushveldperspective for a start to research, it is quite useful. Good luck.
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Been looking at Bushveld this morning. They do seem a decent long-term buy. This whole Vanadium industry does seem to be worth keeping an eye on so thanks for the heads-up.
 
RobMCFC said:
Been looking at Bushveld this morning. They do seem a decent long-term buy. This whole Vanadium industry does seem to be worth keeping an eye on so thanks for the heads-up.
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I stumbled across it in 2012, its been a turbulent wait but never sold a share (even when it was at 48p Grrrr hindsight and all that), I just topped up on the dips, DYOR and Good luck.
 
Battery tech is on the change. Lithium is short term as massive development happening in this sector.

basically imagine lithium as being a traditional mechanical hard drive for a pc and new sold state batteries are being developed which when launched will be a revolution out there.

it’s not really cars it’s being developed for its storage on the cheap for all the wind and solar energy being wasted as we cannot store it.
 
Fame Monster said:
I'm invested in them mate, they seem to be going only one way.

What do people think about SPACs?
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Bovril said:
Vanadium miner/VRFB company in my portfolio up 20% currently without news, it's all about fundamentals.
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Just linked both your posts as was looking at spacs recently as haven't previously bought in seeing as it's a relatively new concept. Have also patched in Bovrils's message as have taken a closer look at this sector and was wondering if either or anyone has had a look at pineapple powercorp corp plc (pnpl.l) which is a spac in the energy storage space.

May have a nibble having recently taken a position on bushveld
 
AlgarveBlu said:
Just linked both your posts as was looking at spacs recently as haven't previously bought in seeing as it's a relatively new concept. Have also patched in Bovrils's message as have taken a closer look at this sector and was wondering if either or anyone has had a look at pineapple powercorp corp plc (pnpl.l) which is a spac in the energy storage space.

May have a nibble having recently taken a position on bushveld
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I will certainly take a look at it, thanks and good luck on your Bushveld investment should be quite a Week 04 Jan.
 
May not be the correct thread for this but seems the most obvious one without bothering to do a search.

If I open a vanguard account to benefit from some interest on my savings rather than keeping it in my bank account earning close to nothing, is it easy enough to get the money back out when needed?
 
Rolls Royce shares were around £12 this time last year, recovered a bit recently to circa £1.16. If you can play the long game definitely worth it as there's no way any Government will let this institution fail. They were due to deliver 500+ engines this year, it's not happened and they've lost around £5b. However they have trimmed the staff (was happening anyway), dealt with the Trent 1000 problems and will definitely come back, maybe a three year roller coaster but is worth adding to a share portfolio.
 
hammocity said:
Rolls Royce shares were around £12 this time last year, recovered a bit recently to circa £1.16. If you can play the long game definitely worth it as there's no way any Government will let this institution fail. They were due to deliver 500+ engines this year, it's not happened and they've lost around £5b. However they have trimmed the staff (was happening anyway), dealt with the Trent 1000 problems and will definitely come back, maybe a three year roller coaster but is worth adding to a share portfolio.
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RR did a rights issue a couple of months ago so the decline in price is not as bad as it appears. In reality an investment in RR is currently down around 50% from a year ago assuming the investor bought into the rights issue at 32p a share when it was available.
 
west didsblue said:
RR did a rights issue a couple of months ago so the decline in price is not as bad as it appears. In reality an investment in RR is currently down around 50% from a year ago assuming the investor bought into the rights issue at 32p a share when it was available.
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Cheers, as a haulage/courier driver I deliver R & D parts to RR, one of the Directors told me about the value of the shares. I've invested a bit, but did so without looking for a quick buck. Do you think they are a decent bet for a mid term investment? A lot of the R&D is now in Germany whereas it used to be Derby, cost me a few quid in work:-(
 
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