{"id":764983,"date":"2024-04-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=764983"},"modified":"2024-04-03T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:26:54","slug":"business-talk-psgs-wendy-myers-on-what-to-consider-when-choosing-an-investment-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/764983\/business-talk-psgs-wendy-myers-on-what-to-consider-when-choosing-an-investment-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 PSG\u2019s Wendy Myers on what to consider when choosing an investment platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, PSG Head of Securities Wendy Myers explains what investors should expect from their chosen investment platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers is a qualified Chartered Accountant and boasts over 20 years of experience in financial markets and the investing sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her financial career began in 2004 when she was appointed as a Global Markets Finance Business Partner by Rand Merchant Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers held this role for over eleven years before being appointed the new COO of FNB Stockbroking and Portfolio Management for Ashburton Investments in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was then appointed COO of FNB Wealth and Investments in 2017, before assuming her current role at PSG Wealth in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers has held many other important roles in major financial organisations, too, including being a member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers since 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers begins this interview by unpacking the key features that a great investment platform should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then explains how an investor can transfer their investments from one platform to a superior one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers discusses important considerations that will arise during this process, including costs and the types of accounts the investor should open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes the interview by outlining a few final considerations for this process, and recommending that investors prioritise platforms that give them access to a financial adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Wendy Myers below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgglWOcUfF4?si=ttIYQzNXW_vtgCgh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSG Head of Securities Wendy Myers explains what investors should expect from their chosen investment platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":764989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[15840,4671],"class_list":["post-764983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-businesstechs-business-talk","tag-psg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765209,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764983\/revisions\/765209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}