We had a share club at work which was great fun - all put in £100 to start and then a tenner a month and discuss what to buy and sell over an ale every few weeks - this was a while ago! Went on for years until the company was bought out and redundancies followed - it was funny how much time and effort we all put in, we were only investing very small sums really.

Funny enough I saw them today on AIM
looks like 2p ashare so 50 for pound
Might find an investor and go for a monkey
Nothing ventured nothing gained 👍

Ha ha parish tried but failed
Badly !!!!

If you’re looking to buy direct equities/shares you need to have extensive knowledge of the company for it to be skilful. Otherwise it’s pot luck. AIM are smaller companies and thus higher risk and more volatile than a FTSE 100 company.

One suggestion would be to buy into a fund (also known as a collective/unit trust/OEIC) which is a portfolio of equities which is managed by a professional fund manager, who will have the expertise and research behind them. The fund will be specific to perhaps a region (eg emerging market/China), type of commodity (robotics/water) or many other things. Each will be risk rated accordingly and can be found on a fund factsheet. The higher risk, the more likely the volatility. Charges will vary from as low as 0.05% for a passive fund (tracks an index, such as the FTSE 100) or as high as maybe 1.75% for an actively managed fund, where the fund manager will try to use their expertise to outperform the market by capitalising on perceived opportunities. There are strong arguments both for and against passive and actives funds. A multi asset fund would give you the choice of a fund which is split percentagewise between asset classses - equities/bonds/property/cash - each perform differently in different conditions.

The risk you go for depends on how comfortable you are with volatility and the possibility you could lose it.

To purchase a fund you would probably want to purchase through a fund platform where the charge would start at about 0.45% which is in addition to the fund charge. Decent direct to client platforms are Charles Stanley or Hargreaves Lansdown (Bristol City’s chairman’s company)

If you go for either a direct equity or fund, do it via an ISA so you benefit from preferential tax treatment on growth(assuming you still have allowance remaining).

Hope that helps. Good luck!

They are currently doing the 3D [Link]
and results due at the end of the summer

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We have a great financial adviser who works under the umbrella of St James Place. He invests our money in maximum S&S ISAs and other stock market areas depending on your preferred risk - low risk in our case.

The adviser and the group all take their cuts of course but it's hassle-free for us and we have been withdrawing income amounting to about 4% pa, not bad, considering the capital value has actually been increasing over the past couple of years.

For worry-free investing and a decent return it can't be bettered in my view! Hopefully there won't be another stock market disaster or you'll be seeing me outside Clapham Junction singing "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?"

Nothing is fool-proof - fools are too ingenious