Want to Beat the Footsie? Join the Club ; a Group of Older Villagers in Somerset and a Team of Students in Surrey Have Shown That City Slickers Aren't the Only Ones Who Can Unearth Investment Riches
Mail on Sunday › January 23, 2006
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Forget trying to follow the Footsie to investment riches. You would do far better to get yourself down to Somerset and see how a group of villagers there makes money, even when the markets are plunging.
Milverton Venture Investment Club started investing in April 2000 when the FTSE 100 was trading around 6,300, a few months after it hit an all-time high of 6,930.See the full content of this document
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Want to Beat the Footsie? Join the Club ; a Group of Older Villagers in Somerset and a Team of Students in Surrey Have Shown That City Slickers Aren't the Only Ones Who Can Unearth Investment Riches
Despite a rocky couple of years at the start as markets began tumbling, the club is now rewarding members who have been in from the start, with substantial overall gains of 26 per cent. Over the same period, the Footsie has lost ten per cent of its value.
Milverton, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, boasts two pubs, a...See the full content of this document
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