How to survive strange times in the markets

With some banks and governments charging you for the privilege of taking your cash, does your money really have no value? Of course it does, says Bengt Saelensminde. You just have to think outside the box.

Savings rates are appalling right now. I mean, what can you get? 2%, maybe 3% max?

And it's even worse if you have serious cash on the hip. If you want to tuck away a six figure sum you probably won't get anything at all if you want instant access.. In fact, in many cases you have to pay a bank to keep your money safe!

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.