Pension stuff, how's it all looking ? HAve you prepared ?

[Mr. Dazzle]

NVIDIA also already a decent chunk of the way back to where they were

See, if I'd been paying attention to the news etc I would have seen that DeepThink were about to drop a bomb - then I'd have sold all my NVIDA shares for 150 on Friday and bought 'em all back, plus a few more, for 119 on Monday.

But I wasn't paying attention.

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[Count Steer]

NVIDIA also already a decent chunk of the way back to where they were

See, if I'd been paying attention to the news etc I would have seen that DeepThink were about to drop a bomb - then I'd have sold all my NVIDA shares for 150 on Friday and bought 'em all back, plus a few more, for 119 on Monday.

But I wasn't paying attention.


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Ah...but...


If you'd taken my approach you'd have made a wedge by selling before the dip, then bought 'em back on the cheap. Which is remarkably like wot you just said.

[JackyJoll]

See, if I'd been paying attention to the news etc I would have seen that DeepThink were about to drop a bomb - then I'd have sold all my NVIDA shares for 150 on Friday and bought 'em all back, plus a few more, for 119 on Monday.

A retrospective get-rich-quick scheme.

[JackyJoll]

If financial advisors were any good, they'd all be rich and retired.

A lot of them do make money and eventually retire.

Yeah, generally they aren't their to turn your 4d into £1M, just help you make the most of what you actually have.

I'm sure quite a few of them retire 'comfortably' without taking big risks with their income.

Yes, an advisor could (maybe they do, by special request) advise a client on a high risk plan that might make a fortune but is much more likely to make their money disappear.

But they wouldn’t put their own money into it.

[Zimbo]

Yeah the holder gets the original value and is paid interest for the whole time they hold it.

There's no guarantee the organisation who originally issued the bond will still be in existence when it's time to claim that original value though. That's why credit ratings exist - they essentially say how likely it is the bond will actually pay out at the end. That's where "junk bonds" come in; bonds where it's highly likely the person who originally issued it - the person who borrowed the money - won't be able to pay up.

They go up and down for pretty much the same reason any other financial thing goes up and down; Because people think it's more/less likely they'll get a better return on their money elsewhere

That's why I looked at gilts rather than bonds. It also explains why the value has dropped a little. Thanks!

[weeksy]

Not sure what's going on currently in the world, i assume it's something US/Trump related but the pension doesn't seem to be performing well after a few months of it going well, it's sunk a fair bit...

[Ditchfinder]

US Economy is having a big old twitch because of the tango shitgibbons trade war bullshit

[Supermofo]

I'm not looking at mine at the moment cos I know I'll be sad. Trump is fucking everything up and I'm guessing my pension is down, I'm not retiring any time soon so no point in upsetting myself. I made the mistake of looking a couple of month after Putin started his Ukraine adventure and had lost over 30k by that point, so I stopped looking.

[gremlin]

I had a cheeky review of my DC pension online the other day and binned off one the funds that was under-performing for an Islamic Growth Fund which is seeing some good returns.

Allah akbar, you infidel dogs.

[JackyJoll]

Dow cracked 44,000 today. I made more $$$ on the stock market in the past three days than any entire month over the past year.

Yes, something seemed to give it a boost on Wednesday.

It was all right until he started actually doing stuff!

[gremlin]

US Economy is having a big old twitch because of the tango shitgibbons trade war bullshit

I have a small Nutmeg savings pot, heavily skewed to equities. I was bragging about the 20+% return over two years before said shit-gibbon started throwing his bananas around.

It's down a bit now, needless to say.

[JackyJoll]

I had a cheeky review of my DC pension online the other day and binned off one the funds that was under-performing for an Islamic Growth Fund which is seeing some good returns.

Allah akbar, you infidel dogs.

Yes I’m averse to things like Allah-friendly funds (and goody-goody moral investments), but it seems they can do well!

[JackyJoll]

US Economy is having a big old twitch because of the tango shitgibbons trade war bullshit

The potential investors into the USA don’t know what Trump will do next, hour by hour, so they can’t really start building car factories etc.

[JackyJoll]

Not sure what's going on currently in the world, i assume it's something US/Trump related but the pension doesn't seem to be performing well after a few months of it going well, it's sunk a fair bit...

It looks like Trump has so far failed to communicate (or maybe failed to decide) what he wants to happen.

[Dodgy69]

Yep, mines down aswel since you know what, but fcuk it, I may retire end of month.

[JackyJoll]

Yep, mines down aswel since you know what, but fcuk it, I may retire end of month.

If you have pension funds dependent on the stock market, it’s lowish.

Of course, it could go lower, who knows!

[MyLittleStudPony]

The auld cryptos have taken a right beating.

[Taipan]

My wife just told me she wants us to retire and she wants us to move house.

[Yorick]

My wife just told me she wants us to retire and she wants us to move house.

You wouldn't like it here

[Horse]

My wife just told me she wants us to retire and she wants us to move house.

Filly talked about this, partly to be closer to her sister in Cornwall.

I gave Filly a shopping list:
- not hilly
- good local public transport, railway station nearby
- large-ish hospital nearby
- reasonable shops nearby
- nice pub / restaurant nearby

So we went on holiday to the area with 'living there's viewpoint rather than 'on holiday'. Not particularly impressed.

Then we visited SinL - who said "We're moving back upcountry!

Final straws were when she said "You like where you live, so why move?" and Filly said "We've spent 25 years getting the house how we want it, why leave for somewhere else?"

So, move 'for' something, or 'away' from something. But know what it is / they are.