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Tacet

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29'th global, 8'th in myBB. Adcock Ingram had an insane day - must be all the people sick with flu. :p
 
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Shake&Bake

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All my shares are on the Up. Capitec recovered nicely today.
ABIL still dragging me down :(

The long wait continues.

Nice that you picked up on the the suggestion to highlight one's own name on the leaderboard Patrick :)
 
Cius

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Question, are dividends counted to the total or is this based on just share price.

Second question, can you buy ETF's?
 
Sinbad

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Cius said:
Question, are dividends counted to the total or is this based on just share price.

Second question, can you buy ETF's?
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Dividends will go to your cash balance when they're paid out.
Yes, I have bought ETFs :)
 
Cius

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Cool, I'm going with a very couch potato type investment. 80% in a diversified ETF and 20 cash that I may use to buy a specific company with at some stage. Need to think about it some more.
 
Garson007

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The top guy is now the bottom guy. :D

patrick said:
I have no idea how bonds work. Could I ask you to post the same question here, along with an idea of how you'd imagine it should function: http://www.shareforum.co.za/the-investor-challenge/new-feature-requests-go-here/
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Hey Patrick. Unfortunately I'm not all too clued up myself, seeing as I don't have access to the JSE bond listings. But the basic idea is that you either buy bonds directly from the debtor or you trade it with someone who bought it from the debtor. The government issues retail savings bonds on http://www.rsaretailbonds.gov.za/ but that's only available to individuals and of course it's only available as a primary market.

The reason why I want the inclusion of bonds is not so much getting bonds on the cheap in the trade market, but so I can diversify my investments. It might just be prudent to offer a bond option that's fixed to a certain rate (say government bonds, given that they're practically fail-safe) that you feel is relevant to the current economic situation - completely subverting the need for listings.

Somebody like DJ might be able to help more.
 
Cius

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So I actually checked every MYBB portfolio (that is visible) and was astonished to see that there was almost no purchasing of ETF's. In the few portfolios where there was it was less than 20% of the portfolio. So most people from MYBB that have entered are going with purchases of individual companies. Anyways, I still think diversification has a place so I have bought 100% ETF's, most being STXDIVI and the rest being Nedbank BettaBeta. Gonna see if the diversified lazy mans couch potato approach will get me to the top 20% by year end. I predict it will. Someone betting big on a few companies will beat me but I am not aiming to be the best, only to be in the top 20% and prove once again that managed funds don't often beat the diversified approach.
 
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