Why you should worry about dark pools

Increasing numbers of stock trades are taking place away from public stock exchanges in dark liquidity pools. Tim Bennett explains how that affects investors and what should be done to combat this unwelcome trend.

Increasing numbers of stock trades are taking place away from public stock exchanges in dark liquidity pools. Tim Bennett explains how that affects investors and what should be done to combat this unwelcome trend.

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Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.