Andrew Baxter

When a private company decides to go public and list through an Initial Public Offering (IPO), many investors salivate at the prospect of turning water into wine. It’s a risk vs. reward decision that can either be extremely lucrative or a devastating disaster. IPO’s – What are they An Initial Public Offering occurs when a private company decides to list on the stock market as a public company. But be wary, there are many myths surrounding the concept. Their reasons for this are mostly always the same – to raise more capital in order to fuel growth and expansion. When a company decides to IPO, the stock price initially set based on their expected future earnings along with the number of shares they plan to issue – often accompanied by a large investment bank throughout the entire process. Turning water into wine The million dollar decision – which IPO is going to make you a fortune and which one is going to be a disaster. With IPO’s, you either get it really righ...

  Christmas Holiday Shutdown After a long, hard year of work, we can often take our foot off the gas for the last couple of weeks before a holiday as though we have started our break early. This can manifest itself in employees going through the motions in the early part of December and if you have the end of the December and early January off work, then you will find yourself quite a way behind the eight ball. Host Andrew Baxter notes that if you’re taking it easy through December for a couple of weeks before your time off, you are effectively losing nearly one sixth of your possible productive time for the year. Clearly, this is a significant amount of time and if you’re working on self improvement and trying to succeed in your life, then perhaps it is important you find a way to dig deep and work hard through this period. If you have set goals, time is your ally and by relinquishing so much of it just because you want to clock off early, you risk failing to reach...

Why Women Make Better Traders Than Men? Is it their prudent appetite to risk? Their humble lack of ego? Or their ability to multitask? In any case, the female effect is real. Here’s why women typically make better traders than men: Gender bias – the boys club Let us ask you this – what’s the first thing you think of if we said Wall St, stockbroking, trading, or investment banking? We bet the first thought that comes into your head is a group of alpha males. Cisgender men wearing nice suits trying to dominate the financial markets; the boys club. The fact of the matter is, this is largely true and it is a gender bias that has existed in the industry since the dawn of time. As host Andrew Baxter claims, when working on his first trading floor in the city of London, out of 100 floor traders merely only 4 of them were women. Quite frankly, Andrew believes in his experience after 20 years of educating thousands of people is that women typically make better traders than men...