25th March 2020
- 0 commentsAndrew Aldridge from Deepbridge Capital urges investors not to loose their nerve and why is important for us to carry on investing.
Everybody in the financial world understands how the markets have reacted to the Coronavirus crisis and largely why they have reacted. Many investors are sitting on cash or nervous about long-term planning. However, your country needs your investment – in particular the innovative sectors supported by the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) need your support.
24th March 2020
- 0 commentsGlobal financial markets will use China’s recovery as a sentiment tracker, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and services organizations.
23rd March 2020
- 0 commentsLord Howard Leigh of Hurley, Senior Partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance & Deputy Executive Chairman at finnCap Group plc, has told the House of Lords that more must be done to support UK SMEs through the period of uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
12th March 2020
- 0 commentsFund managers comment on yesterday's Budget announcement.
5th March 2020
- 0 commentsSymvan Capital's Kealan Doyle explains why EIS investments should generate ‘alpha’ in your investment portfolio and why fund management fees resemble carbon monoxide.
4th March 2020
- 0 commentsFollowing his landslide election victory in December, Boris Johnson announced plans for significant government spending in regions around the UK including the North, the Midlands and Wales. The plans, which are being considered ahead of the upcoming Budget, aim to reduce inequality and boost jobs and growth.
3rd March 2020
- 0 commentsIn his latest article for AngelNews, James Murdoch discusses reasonable investor expectations of equity crowdfunding platforms responsibility for disclosure and managing investments.
21st February 2020
- 0 commentsFrom 2020 to 2022 almost 2 million new units of industrial robots are expected to be installed in factories around the world.
14th February 2020
- 0 commentsJohn Auckland, founder of TribeFirst, shares his predictions for alternative finance in the 2020s.
21st January 2020
- 0 commentsSimon Blakey gives us the benefit of his 20 years experience as an Angel Investor.
Now, 20 years later, I have invested in over 35 companies in 75 funding rounds with eight profitable exits to date (with a similar number of failures) and am well ahead return-wise. I also have more experience than I had back then, but I am forever grateful to people such as Nitin and Milan Shah (founder of Pepe Jeans), James Gordon of Gordon Solicitors and Modwenna Rees-Mogg of AngelNews for their guidance and support in those initial years (and of course my amazing brother Michael, who I have angel invested with throughout this time under the Avonmore Developments umbrella).
20th January 2020
- 0 commentsJames Murdoch considers whether Accelerator/Incubator Funds are a good option for crowdfunding investors.
20th December 2019
- 0 commentsDuring recent meetings with angel friends of mine, I discovered some common ground between them of which I was previously unaware. It seems that many angel investors are also pension fund trustees or at the very least have considerable experience of setting up pension funds on behalf of the staff of their own companies or perhaps those of their most successful investees.