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In my last post I mentioned the need to bail out of Avocet quickly to jump onto something else that has taken my interest. That interest is Evolution Group.

The company is a financial services group offering equity research, institutional sales and trading and corporate finance advice through its investment banking arm, Evolution Beeson Gregory. It also owns Christows, which offers stockbroking, portfolio and fund management services.
Since November 2009 I’ve seen this company suffer in terms of a dwindling share price dropping nearly 30%. However things are on the move in the other direction which is good news. I didn’t buy at the bottom, I missed that chance as I didn’t have funds in place but when I saw my Avocet had turned a good profit that was my queue to make my move.
Now I’m watching and waiting for Evolution Group to rise, rise some more and then more still. At which point I’ll be onto my next play.

Quick note to let you know I’ve sold my Avocet Mining shares. A tough decision to make because I still think there is more growth to see yet BUT I had my eye on some other stock and needed to get in quick. More about that one in a future posting.

So lets do a quick recap on how I’ve performed with my trade in Avocet Mining.

Purchased shares at £0.9974 and sold them 90 days later  for £1.2175. Now where can you get that growth on the high street banking circuit?

Job done!

I’m just starting to get into creating WordPress themes so I thought I’d share my creations. I’m not sure how you’d download one but if you like one and want it then drop me a line and I’ll mail over the code. Simple as that really. If you want a theme designing then I can do this also but you might have to pay me then :-)

You’ll find them located under the Art tab as theme creation is somewhat of an artistic adventure.

A quick post to let you all know that I have created a new section under the Food & Drink page for sweets. I like sweets a lot, been eating them all my life really so thought my site deserved a page dedicated to them.

I need to get a lot more content on the page but I did spend some time yesterday pulling together some information on my favourite sweek of all time  The Cadbury Starbar.

Cadbury Star Bar

Cadbury Star Bar

Go and take a look and let me know what your views on this great bar are.

I thought it about time to share another aspect of my life with the world, that of governance. I’m currently involved in a couple of governance roles and looking to get a third under my belt soon.

The first governor role is to support a local school, the second is a national charity delivering business educational experiences to young people. I’ve created a page on the site that will have more details on each of my governor roles as well as my thoughts on governance in general.

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