«Pump and dump» operations refers to penny
stock shareowners who aggressively promote the stock through email, newsletters and chatrooms to increase the stock's value before ultimately dumping the stock for a profit.
«Pump and dump» operations refers to penny
stock shareowners who aggressively promote the stock through email, newsletters and chatrooms to increase the stock's value before ultimately dumping the stock for a profit.
Not exact matches
This prevents the need for the officer to sell a portion of a
stock award to pay the corresponding tax obligation and thus encourages and facilitates FedEx
stock ownership by our officers, thereby further aligning their interests with those of our
shareowners.
Last week's post was an overview of Canadian
ShareOwner Investments, a service that allows clients to buy
stocks and ETFs using an innovative trading platform.
In this sense,
ShareOwner makes buying
stocks more like buying mutual funds.
ShareOwner can do this because it makes large «co-op purchases» of the
stocks and ETFs in its inventory at specified times.
ShareOwner Investments (formerly the Canadian
Shareowner's Association) is a dealer that allows investors to trade
stocks and ETFs in both registered and taxable accounts.
But the first to market has turned out to be
ShareOwner, a well - established firm better known to dividend
stock investors.
ShareOwner started in the 80's, and at that time were fairly ground - breaking since they were a very cheap option for buying
stocks.
I recently did a review of
ShareOwner discount brokerage, which promotes regular dividend
stock purchases.
If you like to buy several
stocks at a time, then
ShareOwner might be the best choice.
ShareOwner has a limited pre-selected list of
stocks and ETFs you can buy — they are mostly Canadian and US dividend
stocks and some ETFs as well.
Another Con not mentioned is that with
ShareOwner, if you want to receive their «cheap» $ 9.95 commission then you had to put in your order and wait until the next time they purchased that particular
stock.
Investing fees are high, but if you can invest larger amounts and don't trade that often, (investing only in Cdn Dividend Growth
stocks)
Shareowners is a good deal.
You could certainly include a couple of ETFs in a broader portfolio of individual
stocks at
ShareOwner, but an ETF - only portfolio would be better housed at a firm where ETFs can be traded with all or some commission fees waived.
In keeping with Mr. Bart's efforts to help people become successful investors, the
stocks available through
ShareOwner tend to be those of large Canadian and U.S. companies and popular ETFs.
The company behind
ShareOwner was founded in 1987 by John Bart, a onetime finance professor who became a Canadian pioneer in educating the public on investing in
stocks.
Setting up a regularly scheduled
stock purchase plan is easy to do on the
ShareOwner website.
ShareOwner allows clients to do more than just buy fractional amounts of
stock.
While
ShareOwner offers about 50 ETFs for trading, it's not an ideal platform for investing in these index funds that trade like a
stock.
Investors choose securities from
ShareOwner's list of Canadian and U.S. growth
stocks and Exchange - Traded Funds (ETFs) that represent
stock market indexes from around the world.
With
ShareOwner, investors can choose securities from a diverse selection of of high quality
stocks, income trusts and exchange - traded funds.