Standard Life Share Discussion Threads

[nicksoj] 12/5/2016 15:31

3.15 is holding...

[chesty1] 12/5/2016 10:58

Market has had enough of being red...

[essentialinvestor] 11/5/2016 19:16

You cynic Dav ) - far worse than Keith in terms of UKX CEOs.

[davr0s] 11/5/2016 19:10

What a bummer for the CEO - only getting 4x salary bonus instead of 5x!

[oakville] 11/5/2016 18:46

Latest polls show a small lead for the out campaign. Christ knows where the stock market will be come end of June !!

[essentialinvestor] 11/5/2016 11:42

Would be surprised if the recent new low holds, think its a case of how low can it go
if wider markets sell off here.

[essentialinvestor] 10/5/2016 09:18

Traded 20% of my holding on the modest bounce, will add back lower if available.
As I've kept the rest if it wants to go up all the better.

[nicksoj] 10/5/2016 09:06

Brexit looking fully factored in (tracking ukx) with upside to follow...

[chesty1] 10/5/2016 08:23

Now we are starting the road to recovery....Be lucky to all

[chesty1] 06/5/2016 14:42

Up we go, said it would be blue....

[essentialinvestor] 06/5/2016 10:25

nick, that is what makes this tricky, and Glastonbury on the referendum day.

Now that may appear a mute point but it is probably around 200,000 plus
young people, mainly pro EU, who may not vote, unless they have used a postal.
There is more apathy on the Remain side.

On fund flows, none of us have any idea on this until they update.

If you are an optimist then you perhaps see this as a decent longer term buy point.

Dr, yes agree this is also partly a wider UKX fall, we are 1,000 points off the UKX high.

Also weakness in wider financials.

[dr biotech] 06/5/2016 10:17

Think SL is also suffering from weakness in China and related markets, not just brexit.

I am no fan of the EU, but I think remain is the least worst option.

[nicksoj] 06/5/2016 10:05

We're also left guessing on fund performances and flow behaviours for q1.Slightly unerving on its own merits. Better to have the info than not. Right?BrexitI'm not overly confident the youth vote will turn out.I'm also concerned over the estimated 1M ex pat community living in Europe being legally excluded from the Brexit vote. Polls are close and we're 34 trading days away!

[essentialinvestor] 06/5/2016 09:23

SL is already trading in a bear market, in a significant bear market at
over 30% down in just 12 months, so the uncertainty has already
dealt a very heavy blow to the share price

There is considerable wider weakness in both UK and Euro area financials,
DB down over 12% in 5 days.

[pierre oreilly] 06/5/2016 09:19

Chesty, did you see question time last night?Probably best not reading too much into it but most pro brexit comments were met with rapturous applause and anti brexit comments were met with a whimper.I certainly don't think we are plain sailing into a stay vote. I think noone really understands the implications beyond knowing that our country would be ruled by those we vote for if we left.

[essentialinvestor] 06/5/2016 09:10

Mentioned it as a possibility, not probability,
Stay should carry the day.

However there are no guarantees, if anyone had said just a few years
ago that Labour would be in 3rd place in Scotland behind both the SNP
and the Conservatives you would have been locked up - or that Corbyn
would lead the Labour Party, sometimes the seemingly very unlikely happens in politics.

[chesty1] 06/5/2016 08:47

This one is going blue again today.... Could be an amazing two days in a row of blue.

[chesty1] 06/5/2016 07:41

I am not sure why you are all talking about the Brexit it will never happen...

We should have never gone into Europe in the first place but to pull out would cause too many issues IMVHO.

Be lucky to all

[essentialinvestor] 05/5/2016 19:15

Europe ex UK accounts for a tenth of SL. fee based revenue
and 17% of all new business inflows.

You can read the comments of both the CEO and Chairman on potential BREXIT,
both widely reported.

A vote to leave raises uncertainty and 5500 is where I think the UKX
will be on that outcome.

[essentialinvestor] 05/5/2016 17:06

Pierre, you need to lie down quietly in a darkened room if you think
there would not be a large % fall on an out vote, how on earth would
it remove uncertainty?, it would just be the beginning of years of new
trade deal talks, together with facilitating an exit.
My best guess if this happened tomorrow, UKX at around 5500
plus a possible UK recession in 2017, we are already at stall speed.

[pierre oreilly] 05/5/2016 11:46

Why carnage? I'd say the outcome on exit is almost impossible to predict for any business, especially financial ones. The pros and cons and the implications following any business changes due to those pros and cons isjust too complex to predict imv. Why do you feel you know all the business implications to SL of brexit? Or even a stayvote for that matter?If brexit, then the UK has ten years to adjust iirc.The only price prediction I think possible is a general index rise after the vote results whatever the outcome and this due to removal of uncertainty.

[essentialinvestor] 05/5/2016 10:31

Nope, not fully factored in. There would be complete carnage on a Leave vote,
if you are an optimist it would provide an incredible opportunity to
buy multiple UKX companies lower down.
It looks like Stay to me, but tricky to call.

[nicksoj] 05/5/2016 10:25

Uk local elections will have a part to play over the coming days. Is Brexit fully factored in?