My Portfolio: Rally brings an autumn glow

FT Money’s My Portfolio columnists deliver progress updates on their portfolios

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Nick Louth: Converted to bonds

I have undergone a profitable conversion from equities to permanent-interest bearing shares – I now believe in 11 per cent income

Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: Am I off my trolley?

I wish I had followed a friend of mine who has been “in and out” of Tesco shares for many years – instead of getting into African gold mines

Peter Temple: Look after the pennies...

Rises in share prices tend to produce floods of rights issues to soak up the available liquidity – and it happens in the rare coins market, too

I’ve banked my cash into the big names

As a small cap devotee, to have recently purchased BP, Cadbury and Vodafone needs explanation.

Nick Louth: Unease in the east

Warehouse developer Raven Russia has swooped on new business, but Ukranian farming group Landkom has harvested a $2m legal bill

Kevin Goldstein-Jackson: My Portfolio

On September 10, I was overwhelmed with Desire. The reason for my warm glow was that the share price of small, Aim-listed Desire Petroleum rocketed 25.5p to 90p on the company’s announcement that it had “exchanged a letter of intent” with Diamond Offshore Drilling (UK)

Bring on the correction

Does the extraordinary price strength in shares in recent months mark the start of a new bull market, or simply a colossal rally in an ongoing bear phase?

A patient wait for the harvest

On the back of the encouraging recent interim report from Nichols, the soft drinks company, was the strap line “Vimto – seriously mixed-up fruit”, which is used in its new advertising campaign.