What different broker recommendations are there and what do they mean?

Question

E.g. Whats the differance between add and increase?

Answer 1

Essentially there are only 3 possible 'recommendations' - Buy, Hold, Sell.

Everything else is just smoke & mirrors .... for example .add' might mean 'add this share to your Portfolio' whilst 'increase' may mean 'buy some more' ... essentrially they both mean 'Buy' ...

NB. There is little point in following the 'Recommendations' = if they were any good, first the guys making these Recommendations would by multi-millionaires and second they won't be telling you :-)

In actual fact, over HALF the 'Managed Funds' (i.e. funds where they 'insest' your money for you) do WORSE than the FTSE 'average' !

Conclusion ? You might actually get better returns by doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of their Recommendations :-)