Vcts
11 May 2012
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27 April 2012
Ticketus, the company backed by the Octopus Protected EIS scheme, has withdrawn from discussions with Blue Knights Consortium over a takeover of Glasgow Rangers FC.
18 April 2012
Let us give some credit where credit is due to the coalition government.
18 April 2012
Venture Capital Trusts(VCTs) have posted another strong fundraising year in 2011/12, with £330m of new shares issued in difficult market conditions.
10 April 2012
‘There is not a problem with banks lending to smaller companies as such, it is just that there is no demand”.
05 April 2012
The Treasury has put proposals to widen the investment universe for venture capital trusts on hold to protect the vehicles from losing their tax advantages.
30 March 2012
High-net-worth clients on the hunt for tax efficient savings vehicles following the Budget clampdown on maximum investment plans (MIPs) are likely to turn to enterprise investment schemes (EIS) and venture capital trusts (VCTs), the Prudential has predicted.
26 March 2012
Few VCTs are upbeat nowadays - they are either fretting over the state of their portfolio, or their next fund, but one manager has just experienced a record number of deals.
26 March 2012
Bramdean's Nicola Horlick is launching a fund to raise as much as £2m for film development projects.
21 March 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a clampdown on venture capital trusts (VCTs) and enterprise investment schemes (EIS') purely set up to access tax reliefs.
20 March 2012
Whether or not Chancellor George Osborne changes the rules for higher rate tax payers in the March 2012 Budget, the groundwork will have been set for pensions tax relief above the basic rate potentially to be stripped out of the pension system at some time in the future.
28 February 2012
Nicola Horlick, chief executive of Bramdean Asset Management, has joined forces with two 3i alumni to launch a new investment business.
17 February 2012
Octopus Investments has said it is working with the administrators of Glasgow Rangers after one of its investments was caught up in the debacle.
27 January 2012
UK-domiciled investment trusts have been granted greater flexibility in paying out dividends, with vehicles now able to distribute capital profits as income for the first time.
26 January 2012
Solar venture capital trusts (VCTs) have been handed a ‘lifeline’ as the government lost its appeal against a High Court ruling on solar subsidies.
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