{"id":288,"date":"2007-02-27T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/stocks-and-shares\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T14:52:16","slug":"stocks-and-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/stocks-and-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks and Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"p287\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/stocks-and-shares\/ftse100\/\" title=\"FTSE100\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image287\" src=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/firechartaspx.jpeg\" alt=\"FTSE100\" \/><\/a>Clearly I&#8217;m no large scale investor&#8230; I simply don&#8217;t have the money to do so, but I do have a cash ISA for my pension and several years ago I set up a Stocks &#038; Shares ISA as that always seemed to be the best way to invest money. Obviously there is always a risk with such investments, but over long periods (5 years or more) index tracking funds are supposed to provide the best returns.<\/p>\n<p>Now, although people call me &#8216;lucky Al&#8217; it doesn&#8217;t always ring true. I started investing in Stocks and Shares in Feb 2001, I didn&#8217;t know it was going to happen at the time, but Share prices then generally fell for the next year or two, so by March 2003 I had made a loss of about 20%&#8230; Not a great start. <\/p>\n<p>I held my ground though and things did gradually pick and at the moment they are performing OK. Of course I don&#8217;t check them that often, afterall they are meant to be long term savings so knowing what they are doing on a day to day basis isn&#8217;t important. 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