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TMI Trader Portfolio - February

February 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 Trader Portfolio fell 0.5% in a month where the FTSE-100 andFTSE-All Share also fell, by 1.5% and 1.2%, respectively.  Hamleysproduced an encouraging Christmas trading statement with like-for-likesales growth of 3.7% for the Regent Street store in the five weekperiod ended 28 December.  The figures look good against toughcomparatives last year (like-for-like sales up 12.1%) but there was nomention of gross margin performance, which may explain why the shareshave drifted slightly.   Of this month’s recommendations, we particularly like ProjectTelecom.  The company has found a lucrative niche in the telecomservices market and the fact that its customers stay for an average ofover 6.5 years, while the m ...

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