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TMI Trader Portfolio - Aug '12

August 2012

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

A lacklustre month for our Trader Portfolio, which rose 0.5%, while the FTSE 100 increased 5%. The underperformance is mainly because the portfolio is weighted towards smaller companies and typically, when markets rally like this, blue chips will rally first followed by the more liquid smaller companies, which comprise most of our constituents.A classic example of the fall-out is Photo-Me, which announced a respectable 12% increase in profits, yet trades at just 2.2 times cash earnings once depreciation and its Â£51.8m cash mountain is stripped out. To a casual observer, its dividend yield of 6.7% might represent a company that has gone ex-growth but that's simply not true with the roll-out of the new Starck booths, plus mouth wat ...

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