AprilWine

5 hours ago, tso310 said:

Thai have indicated that European flights will recommence in June but no bookings are current. The LHR flight will be the evening flight out from BKK. There should be a sweepstake on the price.

The following are one way prices.

You can now book Emirates from May 2nd to LHR price 10,370bht and that is from the Emirates website. I do put details of notified changes for most airlines from BKK but with everything the caveat things may change at very short notice. EVA is still available, next flight 17 April, price is 20,000bht again on their website. Yesterdays flight reportedly had 200 empty seats that morning. Landed at LHR 40 minutes early. Again book via their website.

Qatar has seats available at Thai prices, 26,000bht.

Forgot about Lufthansa, 3 times a week, 27,455bht with a good LHR connection. They are using an A340-300 so an old 20 year old aircraft. Probably the last chance to fly in one of these.

Cheaper to stay in Thailand.

I have a flight booked with Thai Airways London to Bangkok on 5 June. I emailed them and asked what the likelihood of the flight going ahead. The reply I got (after a week) was that it was highly likely that flights in June would be cancelled also but it is yet to be confirmed. So I am curious why you think they will be flying in June?

On 3/29/2020 at 3:15 AM, Oxx said:

Back in early 2016 I designed a portfolio for an elderly woman living in Thailand.  It was designed to be "invest and leave", and conservative.  At the time I backtested it for 5 and 10 years.  The weighted 5 year annualised return then was 10.5%.  It now yields 3% - a bit less than the OP wants, but as a non-UK resident, there's no capital gains tax to pay, so functionally capital gains are equivalent to income.  The extra return (taking the yield up to 4%) was to be taken from annual rebalancing.  It's all Investment Trusts and ETFs available on the London Stock Exchange, so easy to invest in.

 

I attach the details as something to provoke thought.  Note that I've updated the yield and Morningstar ratings, but not the comments (which are now a bit inconsistent).

 

Whilst I might make minor adjustments to the individual instruments (e.g. these day I tend to use Lyxor, rather than iShares) I believe the basic idea is still sound.

 

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@Oxx Many thanks for sharing that portfolio. Excellent post! Am I right in assuming that there is a fair amount of overlap with that portfolio and your own in terms of funds chosen (though with different % asset allocations)?