Richard Goodwin

I am keen to move stockbrokers for my ISA and dealing account which is currently with Selftrade (now Equiniti) who have a poor and terribly slow website which doesn't enable trades to be set out of hours and doesn't work with the Chrome browser. I am keen not to go with a small company, nor a bank, nor pay too much! I was considering IG.…

For simplicity I benchmark my portfolios against the FTSE 100. Ideally I would prefer to use an equity only total returns index but have never found a source. I only need access once a month when I update my portfolio spreadsheets to a single value for the index, so it isn't worth paying for. I don't think that the WMA indexes will help as they…

Velocys is a licensor/expert on Gas To Liquids (GTL) technology. It applies this at a small scale to gas to create high value oil related products. It is a university spin out supplemented by some acquisitions and I admire the way they have gone about building alliances, obtaining funding and generally making themselves a very credible proposition in their market (they claim to have a…

I have noticed that amongst the small medtech firms quoted on AIM, a few such as Electrical Geodesics and Lifeline Scentific are US based. I am interested in medtech but slightly wary of overseas companies listed in the UK. Why would US medtech firms chose to list here? If I was comfortable with the answer then I might even invest! Richard

Great research Bestace!

All of my DC pension money is in trackers. They have a straight split 20% each in the major geographies as I don't pretend to be able to predict at index level! It is the ISAs and non tax free portfolios which are in individual shares and some active Its. At the end of the day I am not a FT investor and one has…

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My biggest failure was a car supermarket called Car Group. If a low margin business finance stock with debt then any sudden dislocation in the market kills the firm stone dead. In my case it was a dramatic move of the euro: sterling exchange rate which suddenly led to the UK being flooded with cars from the confident. This depressed the value of stock and…

I tried Domino's for the first time in years recently. Both products and service have distinctly worsened. Could this explain the share price?