Author name: Sinead Mullan

Why investors are underweight EIS and VCTs

Today the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) published the amount of money raised by venture capital trusts (VCTs) in the 2022/23 tax year.

After a record-breaking VCT season last year, we cast our eye over the early indications of what lies ahead for 2022-23.

We all know in life that two wrongs don’t make a right.  But is there ever a situation where two rights could result in a wrong?

Helping advisers meet the challenges of Consumer Duty

The focus of the new Consumer Duty rules from the FCA is on improved customer outcomes. It is implicit in this that to achieve the best outcomes for the client, there should be an appropriate amount of diversification to spread risk.

We are excited to inform you of a significant upgrade coming to the GrowthInvest platform over the next few weeks.

In our last update on the 2021/22 VCT season we commented on both the potential for the season to be record breaking both in terms of investment raised and the speed at which it was being done.

EISA has recently published new principles for communicating EIS Fund performance, a move that we warmly welcome. We spoke to Martin Fox, who chairs the Research, Education and Marketing committee of EISA, which was the architect of these principles, to outline the thinking behind them.

As the VCT market continues to exceed most expectations and the speed of fund raising picks up even further, we take a look at the work behind the scenes at GrowthInvest that is helping to make this happen.