Recent content by JayM

Whether it's considered income or capital gains is purely down to the intention of the investor if the period held is <3 years.

No, they did not hand out citizenship. They gave them what is called "settled status", and the standard route to citizenship still applies (first ILR, then naturalisation).

Ghana. A couple of my clients have operations there and growth has been insane.

Most people in gyms aren't wearing masks when doing vigorous exercise. They are also breathing in/out at multiple times the rate of your average shopper, thereby increasing the chance of spreading viral loads. Also, gym is less of a necessity than buying food, and people on average spend more...

No it does not.

You're 100% correct here. The price will reflect the dividend payout on ex div date. And maybe drop even more.

Some of my good picks this year: NYSE:JEPI - healthy yield of 8% and it also has decent growth, with a low expense ratio (0.3%) LON:SHI - 100%+ growth this year. Bit of a gamble, but has paid off huge. Cashed in profit already. LON:VWRA - core of my portfolio, low volatility all world ETF, low...

Some decent picks there I think. My post was a dig at the $T selection, which has turned out to be a lemon.

Listen very carefully to the stock picks of rvZA. Then short them.

No load shedding here since last year. For once, ANC incompetence is working for me.

Yes, and as per my post, he's not qualified for that either! Jokes aside, it does seem a bit daft that they have a deputy position which doesn't really serve the purpose intended.

Hence not qualified for a cabinet post. :p

If you look at City Power's Twitter, you'll notice they usually have many large areas experiencing power failures simultaneously. I think that might be reducing the load shedding stage we're on. Last week half of Bryanston was off for 30 hours.

I had so much FOMO after I sold my BTCE when BTC was at 52K and then kept rising. Now I'm quite relieved I got out then.

What's interesting is that I had not registered on Discovery, only EVDS. I also like the way they call it people exploiting loopholes and jumping the queue - all I did was answer all the questions correctly!