On 23 April, FTSE 100 stocks rallied to send the UK’s premier index to a record close for the second day running. It finished at 8,044 points. Mind you, it’s been a long time coming. The Footsie was last above the 8,000 milestone in February 2023! Still, there are opportunities, in my eyes. Here are ...
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When people start to get bullish about shares but aren’t sure which individual ones to buy, many will go for investment trusts. I’ve just been looking at the most popular investment trusts bought by Hargreaves Lansdown customers in April. They’re not what I’d expect, and they say a few interesting things. ...
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A lot of FTSE 100 constituents look cheap as chips right now. But one in particular stands out to me — Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT). I feel like it’s a bit overlooked. It’s been around a very long time but after a surging price during the pandemic period from 2020, it has fallen out ...
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It’s a fact that stocks go in and out of fashion over the years. This is mostly based on the performance of the company, with even the most promising of firms sometimes falling out of investor favour over time. I’ve spotted one FTSE 100 stock that used to be the talk of the town back in 2020 that I think ...
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Getting to the point where I’m earning a big tax-free second income from my portfolio is going to take time. That’s because the Stocks and Shares ISA contribution limit is currently £20,000 a year. So even if I maxed this out, my yearly passive income stream would be £1,200 from a 6%-yielding portfolio. ...
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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) attempts to identify the world’s greatest growth companies while they’re still flying under the radar. This strategy led the FTSE 100 trust to invest in NIO (NYSE: NIO) shares back in 2018. It was easy to see why at the time. The Chinese electric vehicle ...
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I already own Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE:SMT) shares, but I didn’t buy them because of SpaceX. But things move quickly in the world of technology — the main focus of Scottish Mortgage’s investments. SpaceX’s now a household name, the company’s doing incredible things, and it currently represents ...
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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) has been a volatile investment in recent years. In 2020 and 2021, its share price shot up as disruptive growth stocks surged. In 2022 however, it slumped as interest rate hikes hurt these kinds of stocks. I hold shares in Scottish Mortgage in my Stocks and ...
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A second income is a great way to help fund a more comfortable retirement. However, the average 45 to 55-year-old in the UK has only £20k (or less) in savings. Most people won’t be able to stretch that very far once they’ve retired. Withdrawing £2k a month would deplete those savings in less than two ...
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It’s now being reported that we could be in line for our first interest rate cut as early as May. I believe Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) shares could benefit massively from this. While the base rate still sits at 5.25%, Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey has said “we are on our way” ...
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I have been looking for cheap shares I can add to my ISA. One I like the look of right now is Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT). If I had spare cash to invest in my ISA at the moment, I would happily load up on it. Is it really cheap? Every business day, the investment trust publishes its ...
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Twenty grand is a good chunk of money to get started in investing. Indeed, it’s more than most start off with, and it’s easily enough to get the ball rolling towards a substantial second income in future. If I had such a sum to invest today, here’s what I’d do. Getting started My first choice would be ...
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The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) share price has looked cheap to me for some time. It’s on a discount to net asset value (NAV) of close to 15%. The price has been as much as 20% below NAV before now, but 15% could still make the shares look cheap. On Friday (15 March), we heard that ...
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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE:SMT) shares boomed during the pandemic when capital flooded into technology stocks. However, many investors lost a small fortune when the stock lost half its value in 2021/2022. Nowadays, the stock’s clearly more affordable than it was, trading just under £8 a ...
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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LSE: SMT) shares have been on some journey in the last five years. During that time, the stock’s up 59.4%. While that may look impressive on the surface, it doesn’t paint the full picture. As I write on 14 March, a share in the Baillie Gifford-managed fund costs £7.92. ...
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What are the best UK shares? Maybe we should ask the ‘ISA millionaires’? I’d never heard this phrase – ISA millionaire – until recently. But now there are thousands of them. To be accurate, a Freedom of Information request showed 4,000 UK citizens have now swollen their ISAs past the £1m mark, with an ...
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