Three ways to find a stock you can trust

When investing it's vital to buy companies with managements whose interests are aligned with yours. Bengt Saelensminde explains how.

The public anger over executive pay has been boiling over for months now. But it really came to a headlast week with the furore over RBS boss Stephen Hester.

The truth isthat Hester's bonus came at a bad time for the politicians. Just a few weeks before, David Cameron said that he wanted to tackle excessive executive pay head on. And business secretary Vince Cable is been regularly bemoaning the culture of reward for failure'.

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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.