“Shares for the future: a high-quality firm like no other”

Oct 13, 2024 | Companies

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

If you ever think about DIY-ing, having a flutter and making your own choice of shares, there’s many a website happy to facilitate you these days. But how do you go about picking a winner? Have you ever walked past a Games Workshop in a town near you? It’s usually full of those whom some would unfairly characterise as geeks, I would say computer-dungeon-and-dragons-type-stuff enthusiasts and if you’ve had time to notice, has been high street staple for many a year now. It’s thanks to our friends at fab fund manager 7IM that I heard that it has been (accounting for reinvesting dividends) the best performing UK company over the past decade, with its shares increasing from £5.50 to £110. Would you have bet your bungalow on it ten years ago? Me neither, and neither, I would think, have many others, including the pros, apart from its now doubtless very rich founders. Which just goes to show.

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