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TMI Trader Portfolio - April

April 2003

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.

The  portfolio enjoyed one of its best months since inception, gaining £3,754 or 4.1% and marginally outperforming the FTSE-100 (+3.6%), largely thanks to a near 11% rise of shares in Photo-Me. Itwas a busy month, with one disposal, one new addition and a top-up toan existing holding.  After further analysis of Albemarle &Bond's interim results we sold the shares at 74p, making a smallprofit of £296.  Although it posted an increase in earnings,  growth in its loan book slowed from over 20% last time to just 14%, while jewellery retail sales were only "marginally" ahead on a like-for-like basis. Albemarle's retail jewellery outlets are  important for realising customer's security pledged against t ...

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