Founded in the US in 1993 by brothers David and Tom Gardner, The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial-services company dedicated to building the world's greatest investment community.
The Motley Fool champions shareholder values and advocates tirelessly for the individual investor. The company's name was taken from Shakespeare, whose wise fools both instructed and amused, and could speak the truth to the king -- without getting their heads chopped off!
In 1997, we launched the UK version of The Motley Fool and that's the website you're looking at right now.
Our US site can be found at www.Fool.com.
And our Australian site is at www.Fool.com.au.
Our Mission, Vision, and Values
- Our mission: To educate, amuse, and enrich
- Our vision: To build the world's greatest investment community
- Our core values: Honesty, optimism, teamwork, innovation, winning
What We Do
The Motley Fool aims to provide solutions for investors of every kind. Our products and services -- whether free or fee-based, online or offline -- are designed to help people take control of their investments.
Our offerings include:
The Fool's award-winning website publishes dozens of articles each week covering company results, share ideas, portfolio management, asset allocation and much, much more. Fool.co.uk has distribution partnerships with sites such as Yahoo! and we also have a thriving community on our discussion boards where all sorts of financial (and non-financial) issues are debated.
Dividend Edge is a £20,000 real money investment portfolio that looks for companies that either pay a high level of dividends, or have the capacity to significantly grow their dividends over the long term. The service is led by Todd Wenning, a long-term fan of high-yield strategies, who recently joined us after spending a number of years working for our US site, Fool.com.
Champion Shares PRO is a £50,000 real money investment portfolio that aims to provide superior investment ideas. It's run by Maynard Paton, who has been managing portfolios and newsletter services for the Fool since 1999. He's assisted by David Kuo, who provides commentary on what's hot in finance and economics. They're focused on delivering market-beating share recommendations -- and building a transparent track record to prove it.
This service is provided on the Fool’s behalf by Halifax Share Dealing Limited, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group plc. It offers low-cost trading through ordinary dealing accounts, Self-Select ISAs or Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPP). It also offers a low-cost regular purchase scheme called ShareBuilder.
David Kuo is The Motley Fool's media personality and makes many TV and radio appearances each week talking about the stock market and the state of the economy. He can be heard on BBC London's (97.4FM) Breakfast Show where he arouses listeners every weekday morning with his unique brand of financial news. He is also a regular commentator on national news programmes including CNBC, BBC News, and Sky News.
In early 2009, we set up a separate site called lovemoney.com to focus on personal finance issues. This is now a separate company, in which The Motley Fool has a minority holding, and you will find links to its product comparison centres on our site.
Who We Are
Here are the contact details for the UK team.
You can also read about the executive team and board of directors of our US parent company.
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