BinckBank, Alex & VEB introduce www.shares.nl
Better returns thanks to "Facebook" for investors
Investment community Shares provides a new way of news gathering and sharing by retail investors. The site 'gets to know' the behaviour of its members and shows them information tailored to their interests. Other members can add comments, opinions and sentiments to those reports and articles. This interaction allows investors to exchange and share their knowledge and experience and help each other in achieving better returns.
Shares is similar to "Facebook" or "Hyves" but is targeted fully at private investors. Shares provides them with a one-stop source for all stock exchange information. This is derived from social media, leading news providers and fellow investors sharing information. The members can follow each other and create groups to monitor and discuss the latest information.
www.shares.nl offers a series of new features for private investors:
- Personalised news reports based on their own interests;
- Possibility of adding to and sharing this information;
- Investors can follow each other and create groups;
- Insight into market expectations and sentiment by means of stockpicking;
- All the available news, opinions and sentiment shown clustered on a single web page.
Nick Bortot, executive board member of BinckBank:
'Private investors are looking for reliable information to underpin their investment decisions. We are bringing information and investors together in Shares and giving them a platform for using each other's knowledge and insight. Learning from the experience of others provides insight and helps to prevent mistakes.'
Jan Maarten Slagter, Chairman of VEB (Dutch Shareholder Association)
'Strength in numbers is a motto that is deeply embedded in the VEB's DNA. Joining forces and knowledge empowers investors. Over 400 investment clubs affiliated with the VEB put this principle into practice every day. It is good that they can also keep in touch via a virtual club now. But individual VEB members can of course also benefit from the possibility of online sharing of knowledge and experience.'
Online media package:
Copy link for www.shares.nl
Copy link for demo on the basis of animated film
www.shares.nl will be provided free of charge for all private investors in the Netherlands and Belgium. Its contents are determined by investors. The site is advert-free.
Contact details:
Binck VEB NCVB
Harmen van der Schoor Niels Lemmers
+ 31 20 522 03 78 +31 70 313 00 00
hvdschoor@binck.nl nlemmers@veb.net
About BinckBank N.V.
BinckBank is an online bank for investors, ranked in the top five in Europe. As an online broker, it offers its clients fast, low-cost access to all the important financial markets around the world. As an online bank for investors, BinckBank helps its clients look after their capital with BinckBank's online asset management services and online savings. BinckBank offers its professional clients fast, low-cost order execution and administrative processing of securities and cash transactions, in the form of insourcing (client BPO) or licensing of the appropriate software.
BinckBank is an independent online bank for investors, which is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. We have offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain. BinckBank has 555 FTEs at end of H1 2010. Our operations are split into two business units: Retail and Professional Services. BinckBank was formed in 2000 and has now more 400,000 account holders.
