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AvaTrade

AvaTrade is a globally licensed and regulated online trading broker, dedicated to providing traders worldwide with a safe trading environment. Almost half of the brokers activities are derived from partnerships with institutional trading partners. AvaTrade pride themselves on offering excellent trading conditions which offer traders competitive industry spreads, and fixed as well as floating spreads. In addition, clients benefit from real-time quotes and immediate execution on a variety of popular trading platforms on both mobile and desktop.
The multi award-winning broker provides a range of CFD assets including precious metals, stocks and indices as well as CFDs on single, large capital stocks, ETF CFDs, Government Bonds from the US, Japan and Europe, and Vanilla Options on Forex.

THE FRIEDBERG GROUP

The group of Friedberg companies began in 1971, is headquartered in the financial district of Toronto and manages over $2 billion in assets. Throughout its history Friedberg has specialized in managing money in non-traditional asset classes. Today, Friedberg manages assets for a wide variety of retail and institutional investors. The group of Friedberg are a family-owned business. It is the policy of the Friedberg family to be the lead investor in any investment product offered by the company.

Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd. (FMGL)

FMGL is the Toronto-based brokerage arm of the Group, operating one of the oldest and largest independent futures and foreign currency brokers in Canada, with full-service and discount divisions in Toronto and New York. It was the leading clearing broker at the Toronto Exchange and is a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, all Canadian exchanges and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund. FMGL is a manager for currency, global fixed income and global equity portfolios. FMGL also publishes Friedberg’s Commodity & Currency Comments, which provides analysis and recommendations on financial markets. This highly-respected newsletter has kept clients and subscribers current with the Friedberg Group’s investment thinking since 1971.

Friedberg Direct (FD)

FD is the Toronto-based On-Line Discount Brokerage division of Friedberg Mercantile Group Ltd. offering direct access to Non-US persons to Spot Foreign Currency, Currency Options and Commodity Futures Trading through dynamic, on-line trading platforms. Accounts with Friedberg are covered by the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.