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Its Not Harry

Comment and opinion for retail investors in the UK

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Monday mashup – hang on!

30th November 2020 by Mark Potter Leave a Comment

As today is the last day of the month, I will not post my thoughts. They will be integrated in my subscriber only newsletter for December which will be published in the next few days.

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Monday mashup – pause pressed

2nd November 2020 by Mark Potter Leave a Comment

This week I will finalise my monthly subscriber only commentary – I will publish it after we have a better idea of the outcome of the US elections (I hope that will be this week!). So no Monday Mashup today because my latest thoughts will be in the Watching Brief text.

As a teaser, in addition to the prospects for Trumpty Dumpty (as named by John Lithgow), I will be expounding on the permanence of consumer spending in today’s world and the chances of a double dip recession with a look at markets from 1999-2002 as a history lesson. I will try and break through the fog on factor investing and continue showing you my nitty gritty research into funds offering future opportunities in the UK stock market.

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Monday Mashup – Any Questions?

12th October 2020 by Mark Potter Leave a Comment

In my opinion, not much has changed since last week for investors: the Covid pandemic maybe got a little bit worse, there was a little bit of good news on medical research, the US President maybe behaved a little bit more bizarrely, the Brexit talks maybe made a little bit of progress, redundancies were announced in all sorts of businesses and global equity markets went up a little bit. Such is our weekly routine at the moment.

So I have nothing new to say and won’t waste your time with waffle or esoteric technical stuff.

What it has occurred to me might be useful was a Q&A session every now and then.

Any reader can send me any investment related question and I will respond in the next Monday Mashup. The questions will be published but without identifying the enquirer personally, with my best attempt at an answer or at least an opinion. If I decide it is not appropriate to publish an answer, I will respond privately to subscribers in any case.

I will invite questions once a month in future.

Please do participate in this opportunity if you can because it will help all readers.

Questions can be emailed to mark@itsnotharry.com before October 18th.

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New subscriber only ‘How to’ article on contrarian investing published (m)

8th October 2020 by Mark Potter Leave a Comment

This has been a difficult topic to cover without writing a short book! I hope that by exemplifying the process using the current/approaching opportunities to invest in the UK, I will add to the sum of your knowledge.

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Morningstar gets commercial

7th October 2020 by Mark Potter 2 Comments

I have noticed today that the free access to Morningstar’s 2 page X-Ray is now no longer available and even users of the service via the II platform are only getting the one page report. I have asked II if this as a permanent change, as only recently they were promoting use of the service and to cut it back without an announcement seems churlish to me.

This is not a surprise because what was on offer for nought was enough of the very expensive professional offering for most private investors. I expected Morningstar to ‘monetise’ this in due course.

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Monday mashup – new How To article published!

20th July 2020 by Mark Potter Leave a Comment

At the request of a subscriber, I have written a comprehensive guide to using the excellent Morningstar X-Ray analysis. It can be found here. It is for subscribers only. If you don’t subscribe, you can see this sort of content for GBP20 a month.

Those of you who are taking training sessions will already have some familiarity with this report but may not feel confident that you ‘get’ what it is telling you. I hope the guide helps.

In writing a document like this, I have to strike a balance between readability, length and detail. I don’t make compromises to allow for education or intelligence – I assume my readers are educated and bright people! If you think I have missed something or explained it badly, please offer feedback.

Most of the later permanent content of the site, now over 100 articles, was written ‘to order’, so if you want something added to the Glossary or explained in more detail, please let me know

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