SKYEPHARMA- TECHNOLOGIES - Huge Potential 2005:

My biggest holding is protherics in which I have built my holding since 1998 but added the biggest slice in 2003. My best performers have been The Eastern European Investment Trust and Barings Emerging Countries (BEE). I also switched my AVC into JP's Indian Investment Trust after the Indian elections in May 2004. All these trusts have doubled or better over the last year. More recently I have done well on Nikkei225 call warrants, they are leveraged products.

However, I suspect we have seen the stellar performance in emerging markets and Japan so I would be cautious about jumping into them now.

More recently I have been looking at some of the ofex listed stocks. Not sure I want to promote them though as I am not particularly keen to see the prices shoot away. Okay you might say who is going to listen to me. Hopefully no one. I must admit it sounds crazy to me to tell everyone your best ideas unless you are a trader and want to sell. It doesn't matter with the larger stocks such as skp as the effect will be marginal at best but with the smaller stocks in which trades are infrequent it is a different matter.

Re copper. I do have Latitudinal Resources which has copper prospects in Chile. It is high risk as although some of the exploration results look good so far it hasn't yet got confirmed commercial deposits or signed joint venture deals. But worth researching I think.

I also recently doubled my holding in Original Investments that is chaired by Jim Slater. Its 41% owned investee, Vialogy looks as though it could be getting close to signing some significant revenue earning deals. However, high risk but then again so is OXB.