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The thing about foreign exchange is that people don’t really understand it I’ve been involved in trading and deliverable FX for about twenty years and in all that time I’ve seen very few people that actually understand it, let alone explain it. I’ve seen many people claim to understand it, but even more people bury […]
What do you do when you’ve stepped away from a FTSE 100 listed investment firm valued at around £9 billion you set up and have run for nearly four decades? Evidently, you set up another one. That’s what Peter Hargreaves the co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown has done with Blue Whale Capital. Sometimes doing these interviews
Since the goalposts moved in Jan 2018 restricting leverage and new account incentives for retail traders, brokers have been trying harder to compete with the majors and stand out from the crowd. It’s difficult for brokers to compete on price, because spreads are about as tight as they can get. Brokers can’t even provide analysis
I’ve been having a long-standing debate as to whether or not price comparison works for money transfer services. It’s been a debate I’ve had in my own head, as well as with other providers, brokers, and webby techie people. A lot of industries are very price sensitive, so comparison works very well, but oddly enough
When we wrote a recent article on how to invest in gold. We covered precious metal stocks, Exchange Traded Funds, spread betting, and options. But sort of skipped over buying physical gold. Why? Well, traditionally, if you want to actually invest in physical gold you’ve had some fairly limited options. You can either buy gold
Sylvia Carrasco, Goldex CEO, on how her app makes investing in gold cheaper and fairer. Read More »
I’ve always said that investing is a relationship business. Whether it be with a broker, a salesperson, a trading platform or a colour scheme. Choosing a broker can be in some cases more about how they treat you and how they make you feel rather than cold hard cash. It’s for those reasons that when
Currency hedging is a minefield really, some say you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. But, almost weekly there is an article in the financial press about a business that would have made money if it wasn’t for “adverse currency moves”. Currency hedging is all about protecting yourself or your business from
I’ve said it time and time again, that the most important thing when doing large currency conversions is trade execution. There is a lot of noise at the moment about discounted FX rates, peer2peer currency transfers, and banks being evil because they take a large mark up on foreign exchange transfers. But the truth is
If you’ve ever tried to look for info and tips on smaller cap stocks, one of the places you will have no doubt ended up at some point is the Interactive Investor discussion forum. Interactive Investor, in my mind anyway, has always been an aggregation of what one looks at when dealing stocks. Gossip, market
Richard Wilson, Interactive Investor CEO on the evolution of the ii investment platform Read More »
About four years ago I set up a currency transfer service (it was called Berry FX if you must know). Because more years ago than that I used to be a prime broker for client-facing foreign exchange services. We used to convert some (relatively speaking) large amounts and deliver around £20m Euros, USD, Danish Krone etc.
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