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TMI Trader Portfolio - September '08

September 2008

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.

In what is a traditionally quiet period in terms of dealing volumes, the TMI Trader Portfolio fell 2.9% to £316,417 compared with falls of 2.6% for the FTSE-100 and All-Share indices. Most of our constituents have held up quite well including old stalwart Synergy Healthcare, whose Q1 update revealed 30% growth in sales.  However, YouGov's update was poorly received after it noted that profits would be below expectations following its decision to invest more in infrastructure. Elsewhere, New Britain Palm Oil produced record interim results but the shares were hit by the fall in palm oil prices and fell through our stop-loss, triggering their sale at 368p. Another to suffer the syndrome of record results but a falling s ...

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