hello i'm taking part in an investment compettition at the moment and i woul appriciate some help

if i gave you 20000 of which of the companies below would you invest in for a) a long term investment b) short term investment

thanks

george

3I Group Plc
Abbey National Plc
Alliance & Leicester Plc
Allied Domecq Plc
Amersham PLC
Amvescap Plc
Anglo American Plc
Associated British Foods Plc
AstraZeneca Plc
Aviva
BAA Plc
BAE Systems Plc
Barclays PLC
BG Group Plc
BHP Billiton PLC
BOC Group Plc
Boots Co Plc
BP PLC
Bradford & Bingley PLC
Brambles Industries PLC
British Airways Plc
British American Tobacco Plc
British Land Company Plc
British SKY Broadcasting Plc
British Telecommunications Plc
Bunzl Plc
Cable & Wireless Plc
Cadbury Schweppes Plc
Canary Wharf Group Plc
Capita Group Plc FTSE
Centrica Plc
Compass Group Plc
Daily Mail & General Trust
Diageo Plc
Dixons Group Plc
EMI Group Plc
Exel plc
Friends Provident
Gallaher Group Plc
GKN Plc
GlaxoSmithKline plc
Granada Plc
GUS PLC
Hanson Plc
Hays Plc
HBOS PLC
Hilton Group Plc
HSBC Holdings Plc
Imperial Chemical Industries plc
Imperial Tobacco Group Plc
International Power Plc
Invensys Plc
Johnson Matthey Plc
Kingfisher PLC
Land Securities Plc
Legal & General Group PLC
Lloyds TSB Group Plc
Man Group
Marks & Spencer Plc
MMO2
Morrison Supermarkets
National Grid Transco
Next Plc
Northern Rock Plc
Old Mutual Plc
Pearson Plc
Provident Financial Plc
Prudential Plc
Reckitt Benckiser Plc
Reed Elsevier
Rentokil Initial Plc
Reuters Group Plc
Rio Tinto Plc
Rolls-Royce Plc
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc
Sabmiller
Safeway Plc
Sage Group Plc
Sainsbury (J) Plc
Schroders NV
Schroders PLC
Scottish & Newcastle Plc
Scottish & Southern Energy Plc
Scottish Power Plc
Severn Trent Water Plc
Shell Transport & Trading Co PLC
Shire Pharmaceuticals Plc
Smith & Nephew Plc
Smiths Group PLC
Standard Chartered Plc
Tesco Plc
Unilever Plc
United Utilities Plc
Vodafone Group Plc
Wolseley
WPP Group Plc
Xstrata

This is only my personal opinion, but you do state this is only
for a game and therefore these choices are not recommendations
for hard cash investment, here's my speciulative ideas.
You'd have to decide on actual
allocations though!
Long term:
Scottish and southern energy
Severn Trent
Lloyds TSB
Rio Tinto
(assuming these are also to provide divi's)

Short term:
Royal bank of Scotland
Granada
Hilton
BP
(assuming these are for short term share price growth)

But as in anything, you will find 11 other people who wont agree with
these ideas!! Be Lucky!!

Hi george,

Long term:64 pc

Glaxosmithkline
I.C.I
Legal and General
Royal Bank of Scotland

Short term : None on the list i.e.36 pc cash
rgds aj