Summary: Buying stocks without a broker has become very popular and easy in the age of the Internet. Discover how to use research tools to buy stocks without a broker with help from a portfolio manager in this free video on personal finance and money management.
Gregory Bramwell-Smith is relationship and portfolio manager at Bramwell-Smith Associates. He has more than a decade of experience in financial services, with 15 years of sales...read more
"O.k, if you're asking about, can I buy stocks without a broker, absolutely and it's become more and more popular with the internet, and the different sites that are out there. It's very easy to buy stocks without a broker. The tracking tools, the research tools, the things that are available to, to the general public these days are much more sophisticated. And, buying shares without a broker is, you know, is what a lot of people do. What a broker can give you is some advise, and their opinion, and their read on what the market is doing. Sometimes that's valuable for people. They also have the time because they do this everyday, to work on those things. So, if you buy with a broker, you'll have those advantages, you will generally pay more than doing it on your own. If you are comfortable with the research tools and the information that's available on the internet and elsewhere, you can absolutely buy stocks without a broker and there's no, no problem at all."
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