off the lip 2010
17 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed HL only charge the 0.45% charge on funds, there is no charge for shares, so if your holding is entirely shares there is no charge: see:[link]
PJ Foster
16 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed Hi Eadwig,HL do have a good site and good features - however, their pricing model of a % of your holding starts to get super expensive for large holdings. I've got about 180k in a SIPP, 280k in ISA and 40k in the trading account with iii. Works out much cheaper.I also DO NOT reinvest dividends directly, but instead let them accumulate each month in the account and decide which share (or shares) i want to top up and do so via the regular investments option - meaning that my trade commission is £1.50 per buy. I've long since given up trying to time the market - thus virtually all my purchases occur on the 23rd of each month!This means my costs in fees to iii work out at less than 0.05% a year - about a tenth of the cost of HLOf course - if your entire investments are less than 50K (or a bit more and you want to trade a lot) then HL may be cheaper.Cheers,
Rusty Jock
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed I used to rely on iii for RNSs but stopped after too many problem days .I now use investegate.co.uk and on the very rare occasion their site has a problem I move to LSE . Works for me .Nice to see the share price recovering a bit .
bamboozled
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed Eadwig: "Any idea how HL compares to some, or possibly all, of those prices I mention for ii above?"Not sure I can give a great amount of detail as its a while since I moved across to HL and you know the hassle of switching to another provider! I have an ISA with them but only keep funds in it, I think they charge 0.45% a year but no fees for buying/selling funds. There was a good article a few months back in the torygraph which compared them all for differing amounts and types of account and they seemed to fit the bill with my own situation. I 'm sure they have a sliding scale according to volume for buying/selling shares too.Its a good website to do research on individual funds/shares but not as detailed as the ones you have to pay for of course.Charles Stanley are ok for charges,flat fee of £11.95 per deal but no monthly account charge if you buy/sell in that month(even just one deal).I don't particularly like the actual platform for buying/selling(can only set limit orders for that day),I prefer HL. Both these providers are good for customer service,they are pretty quick at coming back to you/answering queries etc. I don't FX so wouldn't know how competitive they are .Best to look at your own situation and judge the providers for charges across the board.If I find the article I will try and paste it here or whatever!hope it helps?!
Eadwig
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed bamboozled,I've been looking at a combination of Google Sheets with a live (not delayed by 20 minutes) feed for data, including news, from Google finance. At the same time implementing my portfolio and a system into which I can enter transactions which then update my portfolio(s) - this would also serve to bring up to date some of my very rusty IT skills. *If I ever get the time to set about the project.*Meanwhile, HL keep cropping up one way or another via recommendation, and someone even suggested that they are cheaper than ii for trades the other day. ii costs me £96a year for SIPP, ISa, JISA (if and when I choose) and Trading account, with £10 a trade, dropping to £5 if more than 10 in a calendar month, and only 0.5% Fx spread on GBP/USD trades (and I assume on GBP/EUROs too). The order types on foreign transactions are very limited - just 'buy at best' or a limit order buy or limit sell order for 1 day only if the market is closed when you set it up. The latter can't be done if the market is open.I tried for a limit sell order the other day on a NYSE stock on earnings day, the earnings were a surprise miss and the stock started plummeting, I couldn't do anything about it because there was no way to cancel the limit order, which had effectively put all my holding in escrow until the close of the market. I can do without surprises like that. I thought I'd be able to sell anyway and if the stock later went up and hit my sell price that day (doubtful) , the order would simply fail for lack of shares in the account. It worked out for the best in the end, but might easily not have done.Any idea how HL compares to some, or possibly all, of those prices I mention for ii above?
Eadwig
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed Hardboy, "I guess so much of what they provide is automated that it is not checked. When I find something amiss now I always tell them."I used to, then I collected a load of things as well as some suggestions for improvements. When I tried to hand them all over I was told to sign-up with the beta site. Unbelievably There is a form when you first log in which I get stuck in (possibly to do with my set-up) and the last three times I've tried, spread over several weeks, I haven't managed to get passed it, although I did they very first time I checked it, but that was just a test and I didn't deposit my suggestions.When I get time I'll try again.As for the RNS feed, I think they're probably stuck with it and its defective at the other end. I'll let you know if I ever get into the beta version again!PS Its been beta for 2 or 3 years so I'm not holding out great hopes - but maybe some ideas may get fed through - like adding an average volume to the volume figure at the top of this page you're reading now. What good is a volume figure if you don't know how it differs, if at all, from the norm?
Hardboy
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed Sympathies Eadwig.ii have other problems - like the currencies on their fundamentals board. I guess so much of what they provide is automated that it is not checked. When I find something amiss now I always tell them.
bamboozled
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed Hi EadwigI use Hargreaves Lansdown who provide a service for RNS alerts.Most of the time its reliable but occasionally get let down with a small company (AIM)RNS when it fails to appear in my Inbox.Its a relatively new item but can only improve if they get the feedback when they don't come through. I also use a service from RNSAlerts.com which is free but you can 'donate' to the service.hope this helps.
Eadwig
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed Relying too heavily on ii for RNSs has cost me money on more than one occasion - see BBOX REIT board for further discussion if interested.I need a reliable alert when an RNS gets posted, this problem has been going on far too long with ii (or their feed) but ultimately ii are responsible.Some of my AIM stuff reacts very quickly on the posting of an RNS and by the time you see the move - already at least 20 minutes behind on ii's portfolio, and then checked elsewhere for news, its very often too late to do anything.
Hardboy
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed ii have had a problem with all RNSs. None were making the news tabs, though there was indication that they were there on the portfolio pages. Very Frustrating. I dropped them an e mail & they apologised but claim it's all ok now.I saw the RNS at the time, but thanks for posting it. What I do with 7
0 RNS releases is go to the LSE site, and scan through all the RNSs issued that morning. If there are none that interest me, it takes less than 1 minute to scan through. Doing that I catch the unexpected releases as those I was expecting. It works well for me.
Eadwig
15 May 2017
Re: Another RNS ii missed And another one from 10th May is Goldman Sachs crossing the 'below 3%' threshold.ii's failure to post RNSs, especially concerning REITs, is getting a little bit ridiculous.
Eadwig
15 May 2017
Another RNS ii missed 10 May 2017 Empiric Student Property plc Dividend DeclarationThe Board of ESP, has declared a dividend of 1.525 pence per Ordinary Share in respect of the quarter ended 31 March 17, payable on or around 31 May 17 to Ordinary Shareholders on the register on 19 May 17. The ex-dividend date will be 18 May 2017.1.000 pence of this dividend will be paid as a Property Income Distribution ("PID"
in respect of the Company's tax exempt property rental business and 0.525 pence will be paid as an ordinary UK dividend ("non-PID".The Board is targeting a dividend of 6.1p per share for the 12 months ending 30 June 17(1*). The Board expects dividend payments for the year ending 31 Dec 17 to be substantially covered by adjusted EPRA earnings for the period.Note: (1*) The target dividend is a target only and not a forecast. There can be no assurance that the target will be met and it should not be taken as an indication of the Company's expected or actual future results.
nk1999
14 May 2017
Re: 2017 Dividend Dates ? Next Quarterly Dividend of 1.525pEx-Dividend 18th MayPayment date 31st May.nk
Rusty Jock
20 Apr 2017
Re: In The Times Today Todays drop was undoubtedly due to Numis downgrading ESP to a Hold with a target price of 115p ..... for what it is worth .
Eadwig
20 Apr 2017
Re: In The Times Today Rusty Jock, It should boost the share price, but in fact the little bit of momentum the price was gaining in the last few days appears to have reversed. A temporary blip, hopefully, not something hidden away in the press release like visa qualification being made doubly hard or something.
