Motley Fool Share Advisor

[JoeBolt]

Does anyone here subscribe to the Motley Fool Share Adviser service?

I’ve been getting offers to join (for a cost) and wondered if it was worth it. The present cost is £99 for one year. A previous offer was £129 for two years subscription. It will probably be something different next week!

It is basically a stock picking service. For your money you get: -

Two share purchase recommendations every month (one for growth, one for dividend income)
Continuing Buy/Hold/Sell advice
Some other financial literature, access to Internet forums etc.

The scheme has only been running for about a year so it’s a bit early to gauge its performance.

I know you should really do your own research when choosing stocks and shares and not invest money you’re not prepared to lose etc. I already have a financial adviser who looks after my Shares ISA, Pensions etc. However, as a bit of diversification, I’ve no qualms about spending another hundred quid on different advice as long as it’s good advice and I receive a reasonable return.

Any thoughts?

Edited by JoeBolt on Tuesday 5th March 12:27

[deeen]

Motley Fool used to be free, it has been going for a few years.

If you are mainly interested in dividends, a few (free) searches should get you a list of the UK companies paying over 5% in the top 100, for example, so why pay?

If you are looking for capital growth from shares, I guess their guess might be as good as anyone else's!

[dalenorth]

Never tried motley fool service, but moneyweek is a good informative publication, I think I pay £3.50 per week and its a really great mag too.

[JoeBolt]

deeen said:

I guess their guess might be as good as anyone else's!

Their guess should be better than most (in theory) because they're the 'experts' who devote their working lives to studying this stuff. But I get your point, often the 'professionals' struggle to get it right.

[ringram]

"buy" the market. by definition that will outperform 50% of any particular piece.

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