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Plus500

January 2017

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

The shares fell sharply after the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority announced tougher rules for firms selling contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail customers. The proposals seek to better illustrate the risks associated with these products and limit leverage to 25:1 (i.e. £4 client money and £96 borrowing for a £100 bet) for inexperienced clients and cap total leverage for everyone to 50:1 for retail clients compared with current allowable leverage of 200:1. It’s also proposing to prevent account opening bonuses and forcing disclosure of customers’ loss ratios in their portfolios.For Plus 500, whose only product is CFD trading, it’s obviously a blow but as only 18% of revenues come from ...

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