garfield
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Post by garfield on Nov 27, 2019 13:57:38 GMT
Grand plans indeed!! I'm looking forward to the ride!
In the Times report, you seemed to be indicating a minimum £100 (principal?) investment per bond fraction. Is this something that is planned for the near future? If I have one tiny gripe, it's all the sub-£1 transactions I see on Robowise. It can get rather cluttered!
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Post by Wisealpha on Nov 27, 2019 14:21:12 GMT
Grand plans indeed!! I'm looking forward to the ride!
In the Times report, you seemed to be indicating a minimum £100 (principal?) investment per bond fraction. Is this something that is planned for the near future? If I have one tiny gripe, it's all the sub-£1 transactions I see on Robowise. It can get rather cluttered! Going for the moon! On the investmen we have a minimum £100 for Robowise (although it works better with a £1000 plus) or £100 per bond self selection - thereafter it's a penny. Noted on the Robowise reporting - yes we are planning to consolidate - scheduled in. We're currently working on getting the full APP launched and the stock exchange listing but I think by next year everything will be super slick all the way through.
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Post by Wisealpha on Nov 27, 2019 14:23:23 GMT
3 1/2% LN WAR GB0009386284
WAR.L looks like it went in 2015.
Blimey, that one was priced in 1932! Did 3.5% over 90 years work out ahead of inflation?
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Post by Wisealpha on Nov 27, 2019 15:18:27 GMT
"In addition to the war bonds, some of the debt being repaid in redeeming 4pc Consols dates as far back as the eighteenth century.
"In a statement the Treasury said: "In 1853, then Chancellor Gladstone consolidated, among other things, the capital stock of the South Sea Company originating in 1711, which had collapsed in the infamous South Sea Bubble financial crisis of 1720.""
There's nothing like owning a slice of history.
If you can find some other historic bonds still outstanding let me know. Maybe in the future we might create a centurion market (if you can think of a better name let me know) on the site just for nostalgia. Although many of those will be physical certificate settlement with the type of old school hand signed certificates that are probably worth more framing and putting on the wall!
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Post by Wisealpha on Nov 27, 2019 15:47:09 GMT
Are you implying a Corbyn Royal Mail might drop the ball....surely not!
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Post by macq on Nov 27, 2019 16:24:49 GMT
still remember the good old days,which for me was the 70's & 80's when you could go to the Post Office to buy your savings certificate (and walk away with it on the day if i remember correctly) and while they have stopped new Ones and there not as good as they used to be rate wise there are an estimated 500,000 people still holding and rolling over the old Ones
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Post by propman on Nov 27, 2019 16:40:56 GMT
3 1/2% LN WAR GB0009386284
WAR.L looks like it went in 2015.
Blimey, that one was priced in 1932! Did 3.5% over 90 years work out ahead of inflation? I severely doubt it, but it was priced as a patriotic act (original issue 1917) rather than as a way of making money. the 1932 date was when the Chancellor lowered the rate from 5%.
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Post by Wisealpha on Nov 27, 2019 17:18:19 GMT
Premium bonds in the 80s and 90s were what I grew up with - I remember waiting eagerly for the post to see if I won any of the big prizes - sadly just the £50 and an occasional £100. I remember the story that got passed around that some lucky sod with the minimum amount had got the £1m prize. Now the NS&I has got on the tech bandwagon.... and you can check if you are chicken dinner with Amazon's Alexa! www.nsandi.com/voice?ccd=NACPAE
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Post by macq on Nov 27, 2019 17:19:26 GMT
gone a bit off track but i am sure at One time they stamped the certs and gave them back & pretty sure the same with premium bonds as well but the memory is going although i can remember buying the original National savings stamps (they phased out in the 60's i think) Better get back to corporate bonds now!
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Post by kazamx on Nov 27, 2019 17:58:34 GMT
ITS ALIVE,
Welcome back WiseAlpha. I just popped onto the forum to see treetophuggers latest posts, and saw a thread had exploded like the old days.
I hope you stick around again and its not just treetophugger trying to keep the community alive.
Nice to see a few old names pop up again too.
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Post by kazamx on Nov 27, 2019 20:05:51 GMT
I just tend to come here for your links the go off to do a bit more research.
If WiseAlpha is back then we should see a lot more activity. Both positive and negative.
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Post by df on Nov 27, 2019 20:35:45 GMT
Also, people are restricted to how much they can invest - same rules as P2P now from December. Well, it is just a self-certification, anyone can tick any box, answer some basic questions and invest as much as they want. But I agree, this might put a few prospective new p2p investors off (if you tick "restricted' box" - description is not very welcomming)
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Post by Wisealpha on Nov 28, 2019 13:00:35 GMT
I just tend to come here for your links the go off to do a bit more research. If WiseAlpha is back then we should see a lot more activity. Both positive and negative. Hi Kazamx, yep I'm back - will be good to get more folk interested in bonds now its becoming more obvious how strong the asset class is. Have you checked out our bond academy. First courses available now. We'l be organising podcasts with an independent instructor next year. learn.wisealpha.com/
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