In 2016/17 nearly £1.8 billion was invested under EIS. Demand from investors is set to rise further, as tax changes and pension restrictions continue to bite for wealthy investors. What is EIS?The EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) ...
Alex Chesterman OBE is one of the UK’s most successful serial entrepreneurs. He built his success by turning existing stale markets on their heads. In 2003, he disrupted the DVD rental market with the launch of ...
As many as 42% of paediatric clinical trials end up in failure and inconclusive results. Look at it another way: nearly half of the billions of dollars big pharma companies invest in clinical trials on children ...
Around this time of the year, one of the most frequent questions investors ask is: which EIS and SEIS plan to allot shares this tax year? The timing of the allotment is relevant because if your ...
The two ProVen VCTs – ProVen VCT and ProVen Growth & Income VCT – had a bumper year in 2018. In the six months to December alone, they have successfully exited four long-term investments.The most high-profile ...
There is one thing that strikes you when you listen to Chris Hutchinson, the lead fund manager of the Unicorn AIM VCT. He has a gift for “telling it how it is”.The way he describes his ...
Who hasn’t heard of Zoopla Property Group, the £2.2 billion company behind the property website? Octopus Titan VCT, then a minnow in the venture capital world, invested in 2009, two years after Zoopla’s launch.Ten years on, ...
So far this tax year Wealth Club clients have invested more money into the Maven VCTs – Maven Income & Growth (Maven VCT 1) and Maven Income & Growth 5 (Maven VCT 5) – than into ...
You might have read about this in Ian Cowie's column in the Sunday Times yesterday. It is a little-known option that could prove extremely valuable to experienced investors. You can invest in a VCT – and ...
The new top-up offer by Baronsmead Venture Trust (“BVT”) and Baronsmead Second Venture Trust (“BSVT”) is now open.Launched in 1995, the Baronsmead VCT brand was one of the very first VCTs. Over the years it has ...
