A large fund investing in high yield securities

Advantages: The fund tends to outperform in flat and falling markets, high dividend yield of around 3%, good long term performance and good manager
Disadvantages: Large £2.6 billion in size makes fund less flexible, 5% initial charge, underperforms when growth stocks are fashionable

...is to provide an above average dividend and above average dividend growth because it is in the UK Equity Income sector. The yield on this trust is around 3.16% at the time of writing. I decided to opt to re-invest the dividends because I had seen studies that by doing this returns could be enhanced over the long-term due to a compounding effect. Re-investing dividends over the long-term can also help to reduce the volatility of an investment. INVESCO-Perpetual High Income has been managed by Neil Woodford for around 13 years since its launch in 1988. Neil Woodford is a highly influential fund manager who was involved in releasing the truth about the Biotech stock market disaster British Biotech. I admire the way Neil Woodford has managed this trust by sticking to what he believes in an not going with the crowd. This was apparent when...

gorvifal3 27.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of Perpetual High Income Fund

Super-charged Growth and Income to Boot

Advantages: Outstanding performance, Small flexible fund, superb management
Disadvantages: 5.25% initial charge, but discounted through execution only brokers.

...When a fund manager is prepared to invest his own pension fund in the fund he is managing, I'd say that shows confidence and commitment. Artemis Income fund was launched on 17 May 2000 and has proved to be a tremendous growth stock, without regard for the income potential. I understand that, not only do the management team have heaps of their own money invested in their funds, but their pensions too. Artemis (in mythology the daughter of Jupiter) is being heralded as the new Jupiter and that is one superb accolade. Jupiter funds may well have been so successful due to the personal gains that the team stood to make if the funds performed well, and Artemis have created a similar situation but with a different strategy. Every single one of the Artemis funds is soaring high and it is difficult to chose between them. In its time...

petehall 22.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Artemis - UK Income Fund

Choppers Incoming!

Advantages: A good mix of humour and seriousness
Disadvantages: I can't find any

...(Hawkeye) and Wayne Rogers (Trapper) spark well off one another and McLean Stevenson (Henry) puts in a tremendous performance as the slightly dopey Colonel. Gary Burghoff (Radar) also gives an outstanding performance and is probably my favourite character from the series. The final mention of course however should probably go to the PA system, which not only brings the team the bad news that casualties are incoming but also frequent and humorous memos regarding film showings and what day it really is. General Facts The series itself does not contain any special features but subtitles are available in a variety of languages. Do not let the lack of features however put you off as, the blend of satire, irony, slapstick and above all a real feel for the war itself makes this show absolutely brilliant and therefore this series merely...

MI9to5 01.01.2009 (08.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of M.A.S.H. - Series 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

Incoming Patient with Slack Tongue

Advantages: Good graphics; Very addictive; Great fun
Disadvantages: No 'sandbox' option; Manual on CD-ROM

...simulator ? and that?s what it?s all about; macro and micro management. It?s all very well building an attractive ?well laid-out? hospital, but will that be enough to succeed ? in a word, no! The game becomes more involved as you try to balance the books whilst at the same time ? keeping your staff happy; setting your prices for the various treatments; avoiding rat infestations (!); paying off that bank loan; pleasing the visiting VIPs; and dealing with the incoming ?emergency patients?. If that wasn?t enough, you also have to maintain a reasonable reputation throughout the community so that sick individuals will come to your hospital instead of going to the competition! Okay, it?s getting to sound a bit involved and complicated now ? but when you?re playing the game, it?s amazing at how quickly you manage to pick things up (at least that...

asclepius 12.12.2002 · Read review
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Review of Theme Hospital (PC)

Good for a quick blast!

Advantages: Easy to get into
Disadvantages: basic, repeatative gameplay

...This game harks back to the days of space invaders, not because of it's graphics but for the simple gameplay. It's not a bad thing to have a game that involves shooting and nothing else. A lot of modern games require maps or important strategies that keep you up all night then frustrate you when you can't win. Incoming involves shooting aliens and getting bigger guns to shoot aliens and that's it! The graphics are not overly impressive but do the job well enough and there are some nice explosions. Sound is forgettable, but you wouldn't really notice too much in a game like this as long as there were explosions and gun noises, which there are. It certainly isn't original, but it passes the time in between those harder to complete games and can be picked up and played at any time. Worth getting if you want something to do...

pbyron 28.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Incoming (Dreamcast)

Graphical whizz-bang with gameplay to match

Advantages: great graphics, good action
Disadvantages: can get a little quiet, need a good graphics card

...an incredible PC of course, but there is one main flaw, and a pretty big one at that. Often the game is running at a snail's pace. I don't mean the frame rate, I just mean that things often happen too slowly, although that sounds hard to believe after viewing the screenshots of all those action-packed airfights. The first speed hiccup is when you encounter a ground-based mission. Incoming's missions dictate that you are either flying around taking people out by plane, or sitting stationery on the ground in a large gun turret shooting things as they fly past. The first time around it isn't so bad, the erection of a gun that you boast is nice and attractive, and you have the perfect view of any explosions you can cause. But the next time you are forced to take part in a turret phase, you are already in "I'm sure I have seen this before" territory. Rage...

mattmorrison 05.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Incoming (PC)

a bit samey but fast and furious if you like that sort of thing...

Advantages: gun happy violence. Save the earth, get the girl.
Disadvantages: no plot, no plot, no plot. that's about it.

...Aliens are invading the earth! Why? Hrmm, I don't know. What do they look like? Well, I don't know that either. What are they after? That's a bit of a mystery. Where are they from? Err, probably another planet, I guess. How did they get here? In a spaceship, I'm pretty sure. Why are we fighting them? Well? you know? they're aliens. Ok, so there's not much of a plot to Incoming. Actually, other than a couple scattered paragraphs of text, there's absolutely no plot exposition at all in the entire game. All you do, from beginning to end, is shoot things using different vehicles. There are actually quite a few different vehicles, although it's a lot easier to control some of them than others. The helicopters and tanks in particular have unintuitive controls that don't seem to be based on real-world physics. So? You blow up some...

scruffygit 12.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Incoming (Dreamcast)

Good Source of Income

Advantages: pays well, not much time taken
Disadvantages: not enough of them

...Introduction: Ciao introduced surveys two years ago, some time before they changed the pricing plan of writing opinions. Now surveys are the main source of income for many Ciaoers as the only real source of income from opinions are the premium fund where only about 10-20 people a month win decent prizes. The Surveys: I have been sent e-mails for the preview stage of many surveys but I have only participated in a few. One of which was the one on transistors and the latest one on free time. I did get an e-mail to participate in the stock market one but after being accepted, I never received a reply. It?s a shame because since the age of 10-11, I have always been interested in the stock market. I used to trade virtually on the internet and once made a 9% profit in two days but that was only virtual money. Anyway enough about me...

qasim 16.03.2002 · Read review
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Review of Ciao Surveys

A fund for the long term.

Advantages: tracks ftse uk index,low charges, spread risk , can be ISA'd
Disadvantages: covers all sectors, can miss out on sector over performance

...If you have read the weekend business sections of the papers you maybe forgiven for thinking every fund manager is after your hard earned cash. Your right, although ISA investment inflows have increased this year with the boyant markets, they are still well down on previous years, and with 4 (well nearly 3) days to go until the 2005/06 tax year end , they want your money. There is a vast and somewhat confusing array of funds available, each perporting to be the best investment choice. But take a closer look when choosing the fund for you. One very important thing to check is how much are they charging for investing your money? If you are not careful you could end up paying anything up 7 or 8% what with initial charges, management fees, bid/offer spread. So your fund would have to make 10% to make any investment worthwhile. So...

getscenic 02.04.2006 · Read review
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Review of Fidelity Moneybuilder Index Fund

Incoming

Advantages: Great playability, Graphics, sound options and gameplay
Disadvantages: too good

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lightsabr 04.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Battlefield 2 (PC)