Our CEO interviews are designed to give you some insight into the leadership of the companies you may potentially become clients of.
After three years as a non-executive director, a year into her new role as IG CEO and on the back of a positive trading update. June Felix tell us about the highs and lows of the top job, what makes IG a market leader and her plans for the future… What was the appeal of […]
One of the great things about doing these interviews is that you get to discover things you wouldn’t otherwise know about. When I spoke to June Felix, the new CEO of IG, the other day and asked what her top resources for traders were (outside IG of course) she highlighted Real Vision as something she
I have to admit that I wasn’t sure about the gamification of CFDs when BUX X first launched in 2014. I’ve always felt that CFD trading is a sophisticated product that caters to experienced investors. As much as every CFD broker would like it to be, leveraged trading is a niche market not appropriate for
A lot has changed in the world of ethical investing. When I first started out as a stockbroker for King & Shaxon, almost twenty years ago, ethical investing consisted of huddling around a Bloomberg terminal for morning conference calls, chirping in with potential investment opportunities may or may not fulfil ethical investment criteria. Caring about
There’s an old adage, that says you should invest in what you love, know and understand. Which makes a lot of sense really, I doubt that most crypto traders have a clue what they are doing, so will most likely lose all their money. Most successful investors, look at established, profitable, transparent and well-known companies
I would say it’s a universal truth that there are two things you need to be a successful investor. Time and Money. I say you need money because this Instagram generation is in danger of thinking they can trade Forex for a living, when in actual fact they can’t. There is no way the constant
The thing about being a business owner is that your business will either have loads of money, our just about to run out. Maybe there is a middle ground, but I’ve never come across it. Generally, I’d say that whenever we have money in the bank we spend it. That’s what being a growth business
You may have noticed that the UK and London, in particular, has become a mecca for start-ups and growth companies disrupting industries through fintech. But what happens when you’ve done that and your business is ready for the next step? The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow… The public listing or trade
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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