Replies to post #36089 on A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board (AIMUSERS)

[Conrad]

Right your are Tom but the 2,5% loss in one day did not hurt. . it was only € 35 :-)

Besides that I never had any Pain yet with my Stock Market Investments. When I got out in 2001 we had a great profit that was invested in my Engineering ventures. . .That's were I lost the bundle that caused the Pain!

My current investment in PostNL is quite small and on December 6th the price had recovered from the Dip at 2,588 to € 2,6750. . .a gain of 3,36% in 2 days.

For the 3 days running with the € 10 Trade Cost and 14 cents interest figured in:

The ROTAI yield = 4,7 % per yr.
Without the € 10 Trading cost the ROTAI Yield = 161% year :-)

It looks OK so far!

[karw]

Hi Tom,

It is always good to check facts!

didn't have to suffer a slow and painful decline with lots of false rallies along the way!


This describes the price performance of IGD very well.

I had a look in Morningstar at the Growth of 10,000 for IGD:

http://performance.morningstar.com/funds/cef/total-returns.action?t=IGD®ion=USA&culture=en-us

It is basically flat from 2005 to 2012. So despite the nice dividend you get 7 years of zero growth and the stock does not seem very AIMable.

Thinking about this, I think I will sell IGD, still having a profit thanks to AIM.

Kind Regards,K