Edie Lush endures a ‘Win Investing’ seminar which fails in its promise to reveal the secrets of stock-market success
‘What percentage of ten trillion pounds do you need to be happy?’ asks the young Australian called Jonathan who is instructing the ‘free’ Win Investing seminar I’m attending. You may have heard Win Investing’s irritating ads on Classic FM, pressing you to attend one of about 18 free sessions a week available in Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and London. You’re promised that by spending two and a half hours with a tutor like Jonathan, you’ll learn the secrets of trading the £1 trillion UK and £9 trillion US stock markets. Jonathan reminisces back to when he was in the very place we’re sitting four years ago — he was on his way to an interview with Morgan Stanley when he stumbled across this tutorial and never looked back. He doesn’t actually say how rich the stock market has made him, but we infer from the slick black suit and offhand remarks about the three companies he now runs that we’re in the hands of a Win Investing success story.
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