Stock Brokers > BestInvest
About BestInvest.co.uk
Bestinvest take a different approach to most other investment advisers. Typically, they do not receive any commission from transactions, their income is derived mainly from the value of clients' investments. In that way they avoid the potential conflict of interest that can affect the impartiality of advice. They only prosper if clients remain with them and the value of their investments grow.
Their own research analysts carry out hundreds of face to face meetings with fund managers each year. They typically discount all of the initial commission on Funds and ISAs and negotiate further discounts with the managers.
Their approach is designed for the medium to long term investor who wants to sleep easily at night but earn competitive returns.
You can purchase practically any type of investment through Bestinvest - ISAs, Unit Trusts, Investment Trusts, Shares, Insurance Bonds, Stakeholder Pensions, Guaranteed Income Bonds, Venture Capital Trusts, Enterprise Investment Schemes and many others.
Services
Execution Only
This is available to all customers. You gain the benefit of Bestinvest's research and discounted dealing terms and your portfolio can be monitored via the Client Centre section of their website.
Advisory
Organising your own investment affairs is time-consuming and requires a thorough knowledge of investment matters. Their trained advisers can take away this problem by making a bespoke recommendation for you once they have an adequate understanding of your circumstances and objectives. There is no explicit charge for this service but it is usually restricted to investors with portfolios of at least £40,000.
Pension reviews and complex financial plans may be charged on a fee basis but this will be agreed in advance with customers.
Investment Management
If you want to delegate the task of monitoring and managing your investments and your portfolio is in excess of £250,000 you might want to appoint Bestinvest as your Investment Manager. They generally charge a fee of 0.25% of the portfolio value every six months.
Visit http://www.bestinvest.co.uk
Stock Brokers > IMIWeb
About IMIWeb
IMIWeb is an on-line, execution only stockbroker owned by IMIWeb Bank S.p.A., which is part of the SANPAOLO IMI banking group from Italy. SANPAOLO IMI is one of the largest banks in Europe, has assets of over $100 billion and provides investment management services throughout the world.
Their sister site in Italy - IMIWeb Trader already provides on-line share-dealing services to over 40,000 investors. And for the fourth time this year it has been voted Italy’s No.1 on-line broker and one of Europe’s Top 15, by independent researcher Bluesky International Marketing Inc.
Needless to say, there's little reason to worry about their financial strength or technological expertise.
IMIWeb is the trading name of IMIWeb (UK) Limited. Based in the heart of the City of London, they are fully regulated by the FSA and a member of both the London Stock Exchange and the Investors Compensation Scheme.
Information
IMIWeb provides you with all the information that you need to trade in London, New York, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam and Brussels.
They provide you with around 1,000 stories from the USA every day, 400 stories from the UK and 400 from each of Europe’s principle markets. Their European information is supplied by AFX, one of the world's leading information providers, whilst the US stories come from PR Newswire and Business Wire, via AFX.
They also provide coverage for the respective European markets in their native languages. So there is German language coverage for Frankfurt, Italian for Milan and French for news from Paris.
IMIWeb provides additional prices and information on specific stocks, stories and issues, through partnerships with leading providers AFX, Innovative Software, MoneyGuru Research , Reuters and Standard & Poor.
Visit http://www.imiweb.co.uk
