The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: GameStop, meme stocks and Reddit investing

Russ Mould, Investment Director of A J Bell, looks at the recent frenzied buying of heavily shorted shares such as GameStop by retail investors, using Reddit as an information exchange. Causing severe problems for some short-selling hedge funds and attracting the attention of the American regulatory authorities, he points out possible pitfalls and suggests some questions investors should ask themselves before even thinking of participating.