Best place to buy shares?

Airival

I am looking to invest in some shares, and have been reading about them for a while. However, when looking online, there are so many different companies to use, I wonder which one in peoples experience is:
1.Legit
2.Has low/no fees
3. Is up to date
The reason I mention being up to date, is I hear the prices on freetrade are slightly behind.

Many thanks,

DireEmblem

I think the key would be what type of stocks do you wish to invest in?  If your simply looking at funds, then try Cavendish Online.  For individual stocks, then most of the main markets are covered by Trading212.

Thrugelmir

Stock brokers are all legit. 

Lowest fees (i.e. zero) doesn't neccessarily equate to best market prices, there's a trade off. 

Up to date in what way?  I'd suggest a broker where you actually can accept or decline the price, rather than trading blind. 

george4064

Your question is so generic and is like someone asking “Where is the best place to shop?”

The answer; depends on what you’re after and what things you like/don’t like.

csgohan4

What has your research led you as you have been reading about 'them' for a while?

This resource is a good read and will take you a while to digest

https://monevator.com/category/investing/passive-investing-investing/

coachman12

My Financial Manager, who deals with such things always speaks highly of TD( Waterhouse )Direct. I know they must be good-----take a look: they may or may not be for you. But I do recall that they do not do business in Latin America where I have been buying in recent times. Good luck and enjoy.

EdGasketTheSecond

coachman12 said:

My Financial Manager, who deals with such things always speaks highly of TD( Waterhouse )Direct. I know they must be good-----take a look: they may or may not be for you. But I do recall that they do not do business in Latin America where I have been buying in recent times. Good luck and enjoy.

TD Invest Direct sold out to iii a few years ago and no longer are a broker in the UK

bowlhead99

coachman12 said:

My Financial Manager, who deals with such things always speaks highly of TD( Waterhouse )Direct. I know they must be good-----take a look: they may or may not be for you. But I do recall that they do not do business in Latin America where I have been buying in recent times. Good luck and enjoy.

TD Waterhouse's brokerage business in the US was bought out by Ameritrade in 2005/6 to become TD Ameritrade, and was subsequently acquired by Charles Schwab.

TD Waterhouse in the UK rebranded as TD Direct around the same time, and was acquired by Interactive Investor in 2016.

It's still possible to have an account with TD Direct in TD's native Canada, but you'd have to go there in person to open an account and it is far from an obvious choice. Does your financial manager work for TD Wealth? Otherwise it's strange that he would speak so highly of TD Direct, and it's unlikely any UK-based wealth manager would attempt to use them for a UK client, or be unaware their UK firm had entirely changed hands and rebranded?

Back in the day, they were a decent broker and Interactive Investor migrated to that platform post-acquisition so most of the same basic features still remain (multi currency cash accounts and extended settlement being the ones that stood out back when I used them), though the fee structure changed.

coachman12

I'm obviously out of date ----one of the consequences of not dealing with brokers personally. My apologies for not checking but when it comes to share dealing I don't actually have much personal involvement in the day-to-day mechanics. Thx for letting me know, sorry to O/P and good luck in finding a good broker.