Dod101 wrote:G3lc wrote:OK Dod, but would you buy Scottish mortgage today?
I have held them first in certificated form and then for many years in an ISA. I have held them for about 25 years one way or another. I have top sliced them three times this year and am unlikely to do so again. To answer the question? It would depend on my timescale, but I might well do so if I were thinking about 'forever' or at least the next 5 years. Their yield is derisory, and I have always held them simply to try to harvest capital gains from time to time and they have been a great investment for that.
At least two of my teenage grandchildren hold them as well and they have proved an ideal investment for that situation.
Dod
I’m disappointed to say none of my 10 great grand children (all in their 20s and 30s) have the slightest interest in investing in the Stockmarket all they are interested in is selling everything to invest in housing - and I was the same at that age - is this perhaps an old persons investment interest, and perhaps we should take that onboard when we make our investment decisions.