Investment & Investing

Does anybody know why the Vanguard Total China ETF is not available in the UK? The only
option I see to get something with China is the FTSE Emerging Markets one but there it's diluted
by lots of other crap from all over the world.

It's not available anywhere, is it?
It delisted from HK in May:

https://www.vanguard.com.hk/portal/mvc/detail/etf/overview?portId=9587&assetCode=EQUITY##notices
https://www.vanguard.com.hk/portal/mvc/loadImage?country=HK&docId=34273

... due to

the Manager’s publicly stated intention to implement an orderly
exit from its exchange traded funds business in Hong Kong and the exhaustion of
a process to identify a new investment manager

Oh, thanks, didn't see that bit.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/citadel-has-been-stealing-from-you-gamestop-tom-majewski/?trackingId=ySvjPGC%2BR16uBNQUoRJwbA%3D%3D

nice article on market manipulation from linkedin
this guy is really going for the dodgy market makers currently, and is shedding light into the dark corners ( pools ) of the financial system

Had a tip that if you weren't able to maximize your ISA allowance in one year but had some shares in a general investment account, you can transfer up to the ISA limit of them into an ISA.

Has anyone done this?

I sold some shares to help with a deposit so have used all my CGT allowance for this year and don't really have spare cash to invest. Would doing that work without incurring any CGT liability? Not sure if that is a question for an account or someone like AJ Bell.

Cheers

You can't transfer shares from outside an ISA into an ISA. You could sell them and repurchase inside, obviously incurring the return trip costs.

https://twitter.com/chrisbloomstran/status/1420155137197215745?s=21

Savage

criminal, that's a lose lose ipo if ever there was one, i already feel sorry for all those innocent investors who are going to get shafted one way or another,

i already feel sorry for all those innocent gamblers

why?

Looks solid

~1mn new puts on gme reported overnight on bloomberg ( not necessarily traded yesterday just reported ) booked to 2 brazilian companies ( thats ~100mn shares with the total shares issued by gme at ~75mn )

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/otn94a/can_anyone_explain_the_over_one_million_put/

people have been wondering where the 226% short interest as of january disappeared to

hedge funds are still massively short. the last few weeks had me doubting all the research i've been reading the last 4 months but this has me excited once again, more will come out about these over the coming days hopefully

the numbers work out too

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ottkv9/i_felt_criands_comments_drowned_in_the_latest_1m/

the squeeze is back on

BUY GME ( not financial advise as i'm not a financial advisor )

Someone posted a good blog that covered different currencies and expected trends. Would they kindly post again?

May have been me, we keep an eye on the news section of TorFX

https://news.torfx.com/categories/

Interestingly the trend looks like GBP rates are always highest in August YOY, we've been getting 2:1 ish on GBP / NZD for the first time in 10 months

Thanks

What would people do with £20k if you are going to need to start drawing down on it in 2yrs time at the rate of ~£1k p/m?

Life Strategy 60% S&S / 40% Bonds for 18m, then start closely tracking it and taking out £4k chunks a bit before you need it? Or 100% S&S for 6-12m then start moving it into bonds? Or almost all in bonds?

Capital preservation is probably the most important thing. But at the same time when my kids Vanguard Life Strategy 100% S&S ISA is now at ~14% over a 2yr period which saw it at -20% it seems silly to leave it in a bank.

We have two lots of the full £20k allowance.

I'd probably do almost all in bonds, 2 years is a v. short time horizon.

If you're checking past performance it would be better to look at how many times the investment went up over a two-year period for the past 30 years. Not just the gain/loss in the last 2-year period.

I'd probably do almost all in bonds, 2 years is a v. short time horizon.

this

Two years is too short and £20k isn't enough money. The £2k you'd get if you luck out is just noise. And the £2k you lose if you get unlucky will sting.

Can you pay off some debt / start drawing it down early?

I had a similar amount and timeline 18m - just stuck it in premium bonds. Won £500 in 3m

Gamestop.... all in.

yolo.

Nah, get it in bitcoin.

invest in (14) ekar groupsets imo

I have had a similar amount in PB for the last three years and have won half that in total. Strategy isn't working. I am looking for lucky people to hold the bonds on my behalf and then split the winnings...

Cheers all.

Good points. I guess I was think the draw down rate makes the investment horizon >2yrs.

Would anyone's view change if it was 40k?