The Financial Times recently ran a very interesting article (‘The great pensions tax squeeze’, September 2) on the impact of changes to pensions and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) regulations. Definitely worth a read but, if you are not a subscriber, the salient points were as follows: – The tax-free amount…
Last Thursday saw the third hosting of the Turquoise wine tasting challenge, which afforded us the opportunity to say thank you to the people we have worked with during the course of the past 12 months: clients, investee companies, co-advisers and other partners. The event saw 11 teams competing to demonstrate their knowledge of fine…
Backing automotive technologies is undoubtedly risky but has huge potential upside given the very large volumes involved. Investors looking at making venture capital investments in this sector will quickly find themselves faced with a choice between 3 types of innovation which can be simplified as: (1) the “evolutionary” process of making the internal combustion engine…