EIS allow investors to benefit from handsome returns of micro-caps

Enterprise Investment Schemes are a good opportunity for more risk tolerant investors to capitalise on the impressive gains that UK micro-cap companies make

The Chancellor's need to stimulate an enterprise culture in the UK throws up some interesting financial planning opportunities for today's adviser, but it may also require a fundamental shift in attitude. To obtain some context, one must look back to post-war Britain when the economy was in disarray. Investors In Industry, or 3i as it became known, was a government initiative to inject capital into the UK's small, fast growing businesses, in order to fund the entrepreneurial activities of a nation desperate to maintain its former power. 3i helped to bridge what has become known as the equ...