Hi Liz, Nice to see you again. I hope the holiday season went well for you and your family.Quote:
quote:Originally posted by Lizard
I agree with Colin. Nice to read your posts YOTT. But most of all...could you tell me the name of your broker ;)?
I've been told full-service is the way to go for IPO's, but the best I can get out of mine is the occasional lunch... I think the last IPO I was offered would have been FTX!
Actually I use ASB OST for all my buying (and occasionally selling) of shares.
The first shares that I bought back nearly 4 years ago (except for TPW which I've held since they were given as freebies to all their customers in the mid 90's [^]), I bought through an ABN Amro broker who recommended to me POA, SKC & NZX. I tucked them in a file and forgot about them for a year or so then decided to pull them out and try to learn a bit about the companies. That got my interest a little primed so I decided to start reading about companies and keeping my ear to the ground as to what the punters were thinking.
I decided at that stage that if I was going to be buying shares, then I wanted to be in control of what I was doing and not relying on a broker for advice. (Hmmm, sounds like I'm a bit of a control freak doesn't it? ;)) Since then I've built up a small portfolio of both NZX and ASX shares that keep me interested.
Back to the topic of Rakon. I saw on the ASB OST site, information about the pending RAK IPO. I got a copy of the prospectus and was quietly confident with the type of business they are in. I put in a maximum order to ASB and hoped for the best.
There endeth the story..... :)
Cheers all
YOTT