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Does anyone have any links to any of the Luniversal Basket of Investment Trust threads that were on Motley Fool? I have found a few using Google but can't help thinking there are more that I'm missing. I seem to remember a "master" thread with lots of links to other threads.

Are those old threads on Baskets of Investment Trusts going to be lost when fool closes its bulletin boards or have they been saved somewhere?

They have been archived on Wayback https://archive.org/web/ but I don't have a link to it.

The baskets were B7 and B8, specified in http://boards.fool.co.uk/the-baskets-ar ... 07381.aspx

B8
City of London (CTY)
Dunedin Income Growth (DIG)
Edinburgh (EDIN)
Invesco Income Growth (IVI)
Merchants (MRCH)
Murray Income (MUT)
Schroder Income Growth (SCF)
Temple Bar (TMPL)


and

B7
Bankers (BNKR)
F&C Capital and Income (FCI)
JPM Claverhouse (JCH)
Lowland (LWI)
Mercantile (MRC)
Murray International (MYI)
Perpetual Income & Growth (PLI)

There is lots more about them if you follow Luniversal on that board.

TJH

a list of posts (but only up to 2011): http://boards.fool.co.uk/baskets-of-tru ... 38407.aspx

B7 annual review, 2016: http://boards.fool.co.uk/basket-of-seve ... 82736.aspx

B8 annual review, 2016: http://boards.fool.co.uk/basket-of-eigh ... 35673.aspx

fisher wrote:Are those old threads on Baskets of Investment Trusts going to be lost when fool closes its bulletin boards or have they been saved somewhere?

Yes, they will be lost, but you can save them into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine if you want.

On TMF go to each page you think worth saving, click "Whole Thread" and copy the URL. Then go to https://archive.org/web/ and paste the URL into the "Save Page Now" form and click the button to do so. Save the URL it gives you, along with the title and maybe date of the original post.

Repeat for all pages you think worth saving, and then post all of the URLs & titles etc here for posterity.

They have a Chrome Extension and also boomarklets that may make the job easier. I haven't tried either. https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see ... something/

Or "print" them as PDFs, and then save them to your own machine. This is what I have done.

MDW1954

Thanks everyone - very useful.

MDW1954 wrote:Or "print" them as PDFs, and then save them to your own machine. This is what I have done.

MDW1954

But that doesn't help anyone else who needs to see them in the future, especially if you were to cease being available on TLF.

Adrian

mc2fool wrote:They have a Chrome Extension and also boomarklets that may make the job easier. I haven't tried either. https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see ... something/

I've just installed the Chrome extension and it looks very useful. In two quick clicks you can get the page you're looking at archived into the Wayback Machine ... even quicker than printing to PDF and a lot more community minded.

And actually it looks useful for general browsing, 'cos if you follow a dead link (a link to a page that's no longer there) you can, in two quick clicks, go to that page saved in the archive, if it's there.

Let's say that I fancied three from B7 and three from B8; what would be the current thoughts, please.

AJC5001 wrote:

MDW1954 wrote:Or "print" them as PDFs, and then save them to your own machine. This is what I have done.

MDW1954

But that doesn't help anyone else who needs to see them in the future, especially if you were to cease being available on TLF.

Adrian

Indeed. But I did them as they were published, back on TMF, at a time when none of us thought that TMF's boards would close.

MDW1954

CatcheeMonkee wrote:Let's say that I fancied three from B7 and three from B8; what would be the current thoughts, please.

Follow your fancy. As far as I can see, you can mix and match to your heart's content.

TJH

Yes, use your own criteria. Those baskets were based on the equity income criteria that Luni had at the time they were created, and he then maintained them without changes for data analysis reasons but I do remember he mentioned once at least on TMF that were he making a 'basket' today then it would likely have some different picks.

CatcheeMonkee wrote:Let's say that I fancied three from B7 and three from B8; what would be the current thoughts, please.

From the B8 I would recommend City of London, Edinburgh and Temple Bar. They have all done well for me over many years.

The only one from B7 I could really recommend would be Bankers so to make up the three I would also hold Finsbury Growth & Income and finally Scottish Mortgage. Again I also hold these and all have performed very well over many years.

Wasn't
Finsbury Growth and Income part of Luni's U24 [universe of 24] from which B7 and B8 were selected.
and
Scottish Mortgage one of his G10 [growth 10].