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Wow, bit of a dead board!!

Just posted Part II of The Great Irish Share Valuation Project on my blog, where I plan to set a Fair Value Price Target for every listed Irish company. So far I've valued 2 dozen companies, including Abbey:

http://wexboy.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/the-great-irish-share-valuation-project-ii/

I hope you'll take a look (plse don't hesitate to comment/email me), and perhaps become a regular reader.

Cheers,

Wexboy By Wexboy ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=9214775&action=detail Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:18:00 GMT Wexboy tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.5582100 globalstockdata.com site
Been looking at it for a while now and it's pretty impressive. They're clearly honest about their performance and the UK stock analysis seems pretty consistent.
Anyone else rate it? By WineHead ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=5582100&action=detail Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:28:00 GMT WineHead tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.4959626 http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=4959626&action=detail Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:44:00 GMT Aah Shenrab Miwo tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.4319571
http://forum.globalhousepricecrash.com/index.php?s=1216da0f58daae8b5f8c71dc26a03141&showtopic=43783&st=0&p=414704&#entry414704

"A new estimate suggested house prices could fall more than 50% in the current downturn.

The latest forecast from Tradition Future HPI, which uses the futures market as a guide to where house prices are heading, is its grimmest to date. It predicts the average house price will fall to £114,347 by October 2011, a drop of 43% from the peak in August last year" By slim111 ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=4319571&action=detail Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:52:00 GMT slim111 tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.4274069


He is suddenly

in London,

er- Birmingham,
In London,

er- Washington-

In Whiteghall,

er Paris,

In London,

-er in Brussels-

- no in Scotland,


with open telecom channel to over 80 world leaders.

Atlas didn't shrug in the Commons again today...he rose over Brussels like The Golden Eagle.

This is the first time since World War II that the public have taken their eyes of Hollywood for 19 seconds.

Knowing that Europe is where the banking crisis will be solved, he recalled Mandelson...at a cost of 3 million Euro and a Baronetcy- to brief him on winning Europe over.

And suddenly the PM is all over, hammering and scything, urging and threatening, coaxing and demanding-, presiding, recalling, appointing, shuffling, issuing, requisitioning, earmarking, negotiating...sueing, seizing, making up when they cooperate!


In Brown's first PM's Questions he asked all 3 main parties to work togther with him to address the difficult times ahead.
He was jeered and booed, with shouts of "stop talking up a crisis there isn't one!"

He was right again.

But not for a mystical reason...he has studied the same subject since he did his PhD after losing his eye.

There can only be one reason he acts like this:

He ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS (regulation) and how to solve it.

He has his bulldog teeth in the back of the bankers and he wont let go until he has shaken them into agreeing to the 2. point Brown plan which is

1.Regulate

&

2. Support

Regulate and Support! Regulate and Support! It might have been chalked on the shoes of John Wilkes' supporters.


He was ridiculed when he asked the USA to organise their banking system years ago, but now every world leader is soliciting his opinion and trying desperately to implement Brown's Plan.

When has there been a financial wizard in British history like this:

Only Pitt the Younger who stopped Britain collapsing by inventing compulsory income tax...this was copied by every nation in the world, as they are all copying Brown's Plan.

(“Roll up that map: it will not be wanted these ten years.”...Brown 'The future of the financial sector is going to be very different for some time')

Brown's Plan isn't something drawn on his shirt cuffs while lost at the Windsor banquet, it comes from decades of studying finance...even his PhD covered the run up to the great Crash of 1929).



That was exactly the same with Churchill (the greatest world expert in running a world war), with Pitt (who was trained to be PM like a Mozart by his dad) and with Wellington who trained for Waterloo over decades).

All 3 held the office Gordon Brown now holds.

He hasn't got to the top in UK because his is made of sugar candy.

He is hard. Tough - the quietness of his rugby player style is suddenly being understood by the British who are breathing again after holding their breaths.



There is a statue of Achilles erected outside the Duke of Wellington's London home ('1 London' when, another numerate Prime Minister, he invented street numbering) paid for by the women of Great Britain to Wellington & cast from the cannons won in the victories of Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse and Waterloo:

http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/pm_07.jpg


One cant rise without the fire-training of the Gladiator, and Brown has surely served apprenticeship.

It is soon for him though to carry the world's first ministers in a united effort to a world banking infrastructure, but it must have crossed people's minds as it did mine: is Britain rising after 63 years?

63 years in the course of a history is but a blip.

One cant lead by tyranny, only by service, insight and above all expertise, expertise, expertise.

The wars of today is one war against poverty, because with wealth everything is facilitated and the British have a world statesman before them who has trained like Wellington By citytrade ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=4274069&action=detail Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:19:00 GMT citytrade tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.3346689
Worth buying (Abbey plc that is - not the bank) at £6.46, I think. By victorjohn ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=3346689&action=detail Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:38:00 GMT victorjohn tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.3322094
Hope you can sleep easy at night, safe in the knowledge that any money invested in Abbey is being used properly!! By Scoffers P ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=3322094&action=detail Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:55:00 GMT Scoffers P tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.3318659 http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=3318659&action=detail Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:37:00 GMT HUNGRY WOLF tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.3318656
As ishareholders, are you not worried about investing in a bank whose anti money laundering procedure is clearly not up to scratch?!

I'm not an Abbey investor but if I was I would be very concerned about the fact that, by having an inadequate anti money laundering policy, Abbey could be allowing fraudulent activity to occur.

What are your thoughts? By Scoffers P ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=3318656&action=detail Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:31:00 GMT Scoffers P tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.3008788 http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=3008788&action=detail Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:40:00 GMT Capt Cisco tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.2959271
Regarding investing here, I have to do some research first.
Thanks By Holeinpocket ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=2959271&action=detail Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:47:00 GMT Holeinpocket tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.2959180 in fact you might think about investing your money here cos it seems a pretty solid company to me and reasonably good value at the current price. By bathsheba ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=2959180&action=detail Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:29:00 GMT bathsheba tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.2958743
My mortgage is due to be completed and there is a list of tariff charges, so I enquired what I was paying for and as a share holder I should be happy as this is money for jam, but being on the receiving end of this highway robbery all I want to know is what I am paying for?

After five weeks of making enquires, no one from the Abbey has returned my call or given me a response in writing. I have attached below a synopsis of event to date. My next step in this charade is to close my savings account, cancel my insurances and sell my shares. These people are free riders - but not at my expense.

'I contacted customer service centre by telephone approximately four weeks ago, regarding the tariffs/administration charges on completion of my mortgage. I was told that these charges were for the release of title deeds of my home. I informed the young lady that I am refusing to pay this as I can obtain a copy of the title deeds free of charge from the local Land Registry.

I also asked what has happened to the previous tariff charges of maintaining my deeds, where the reply for her was, as I can obtain the deeds from the Land Registry quite easily and we do not provide that service any more. I replied that I rest my case.

The operator embarrassed what she had said, said I should contact my local branch to explain the details of the charges? The same day, I attended my local branch and made an appointment to meet the manager the following week.

On meeting the manager three weeks ago and explaining my grievance, he politely took my details, including my mobile phone number, and said that he will find out for me what exactly I am paying for and will either get back to me in writing or will phone me with a response. This has not happened.

In the mean time I visited the Land Registry, who now informs me that the procedure has changed and paper deeds are now obsolete, all that is required is for the property to be registered. All they need is either completion of a DS2E or DS2 form (in my possession) that the bank or building society has no further interest in the property. They also informed me that some building societies charge a considerable sum for this service when it’s so easy to do, it’s a scam! I replied I know.

To conclude my complaint, please could you give me a breakdown of what I am actually paying for, a reply would be appreciated!'

Lastly, I compared tariff charges with other building societies, to find that they are far less than the Abbey.
It is so easy to register with the Land Registry, do not allow them to rip you off.

By Holeinpocket ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=2958743&action=detail Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:19:00 GMT Holeinpocket tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.2948881 By Capt Cisco ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=2948881&action=detail Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:38:00 GMT Capt Cisco tag:iii.co.uk,2003:tst.2903510 Have you noticed the spread has not closed up, they must be trying to get more people interested. By Capt Cisco ]]> http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:ABBY.L&display=discussion&id=2903510&action=detail Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:02:00 GMT Capt Cisco