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With last rites being performed on Renesola’s AIM listing before shifting their focus solely to their New York Stock Exchange listing, last Thursday 4th November we sold off our final tranche of 500 shares of our portfolio stalwart for 4.0150 pence a share and a total return of £2,007.50 before dealer costs. We were averaged [...]

On a tip from a reader – thanks Matt – we took a closer look at Berkeley Mineral Resources (BMR.L), liked what we saw and ended pulling the trigger on Monday, jumping in for 21,712 shares at 4.53 pence a share. In the three-and-a-half days since we’ve seen a 31% rise in the share price [...]

We’ve had a decent run with things lately so I paid a visit to our friends at Kiva and set up another 4 micro-loans to those in the world who are a little less fortunate. For anybody who is unsure of what Kiva is all about, I could wax lyrical for a few paragraphs but [...]

We’re dipping a toe in the London commercial property leasing market with the second of our buys from last week, taking up 4,300 shares in Workspace Group (WKP.L). Quite a few years ago after doing a little homework I’d earmarked Workspace Group as a company to watch and placed it in a ‘to-watch’ portfolio. At [...]

Cue trumpets! Fireworks set! Okay, so maybe we put the ticker-tape away for the moment and concentrate more on getting somewhere near that million quid we’re shooting at. That said, we’re pretty chuffed with the new look Investor Trader (and the way Entertainment One has been flying in the past few weeks). There’s not many [...]


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