It’s now a little over 8 years ago that I started to build my UK High Yield Portfolio (HYP).  It was a much talked about strategy back in t...

A little over 7 years ago (late 2011) I started to build a UK High Yield Portfolio (HYP).  It was a much talked about strategy back in the ...

Back in late 2011 I started building what is known as a UK High Yield Portfolio (HYP).  It was a much talked about strategy back in the Mot...

My mature overall investing strategy is these days not much more complicated than a diversified collection of low expense, physical (as opp...

Amlin was added to my High Yield Portfolio (HYP) back in August 2014 .  At the time I purchased 963 shares at a price of £4.4986 paying £3...

The vast majority of my low cost portfolio  consists of low cost trackers.  The one big exception to this is my UK High Yield Portfolio (HY...

The vast majority of my investment portfolio is made up of passive index tracking funds.  Why?  Well as a person who’s now been investing h...

On the 29 May 2015 I added Legal & General (LGEN) to my High Yield Portfolio (HYP) at a price of £2.6766 a share.  Since purchase the...

Two events have occurred in the past week that prompt this post: My Defined Contribution Company Pension transfer to a Hargreaves Lansdow...

While those around me at work are talking about the holidays, fashion and gadgets they have bought with their bonuses I've kept fairly ...

Unless you've been living under a rock you will be very familiar with oil prices falling for a few months now.  Regular readers...

We've just completed the 3rd calendar year for my real life, warts and all, High Yield Portfolio (HYP) that’s still in the accrual stag...

My retirement investment strategy  has been relatively unchanged since I started this blog in 2009.  When you boil it all down around 90%...

I’ve now been building my High Yield Portfolio since November 2011.  A reminder of my previous purchases: On the 28 November 2011 I purc...

When I reach Financial Independence in less than 3 years I'm going to be presented with a number of options, one of which will be to ta...

I’d like to welcome back John Hulton.  John claims to not be a financial guru, stockbroker or financial journalist, but just an average blok...

The full detail on what a High Yield Portfolio (HYP) is, why I decided to build one and full detail on my initial selection can be found in ...

In its purest form a High Yield Portfolio (HYP) is a strategy designed to develop an Income Stream, which then provides an alternative to p...