Private investors made record-breaking investment into Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) last tax year (2021/22): £1.13 billion – the highest amount ever and a 65% rise from the year before. The most popular offers filled quickly, raising ...
Which offers are attracting investors’ interest? Every Monday we look at the offers Wealth Club members have viewed on our website the previous week. Then we compile the top ten across the different types of investment: ...
Nine years ago today, one small rule change – allowing investors to hold AIM shares (those in companies quoted on the Alternative Investment Market, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange) in an ISA – had ...
Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and the Enterprise and Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS and SEIS) are government-backed schemes set up to encourage investment in young businesses crucial to the UK economy. They have similarities – including ...
UK inflation has hit a 40-year high of 9.4%. It’s a similar story globally. How long it remains elevated is anyone’s guess. But if high inflation does hang around, the impact on businesses will be severe.Rising ...
Experienced investors have been using the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to offset income tax and defer capital gains tax (CGT) since it launched in 1994. This government-backed scheme offers generous tax reliefs to help compensate for ...
In amateur tennis, about 80% of points aren't won by the opponent but lost because of unforced errors, such as hitting the ball out of bounds. The same is true of investing, in my experience. If ...
Conventional wisdom says the bigger the industry, the better the business. Watch Dragon’s Den, The Apprentice or most company presentations, and they’ll boast about the size of their market and what a great opportunity it presents. ...
Over a decade ago, a high earner could invest up to £255,000 per tax year in a pension and get a significant percentage of that back in tax relief. Those days are gone. The tax benefits ...
Five years ago, I would have said a company's culture was important, but the business model mattered more. I’ve since learnt the error of my ways.If you get the culture wrong, almost nothing else matters. Just ...