Should asset managers consider angel investment?

Opportunities in start-ups

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The opportunities for investing in start-up businesses are wide and varied, writes Baybars Altuntas, chairman of the World Business Angel Investment Forum.

The GDP of 120 nations grew more quickly in 2017 than in the preceding years, with Asia showing by far the greatest growth rate, outstripping the US and Europe by a huge amount. NCI urges FCA to support 'innovation and entrepreneurialism' in asset management China created one third of the world's GDP increase - its economy is on a par with that of Europe and, if that growth rate continues, it will overtake the US by 2019 or 2020. One of the most important factors of the growth is the number of start-up businesses and how quickly they can develop a global reach. In the past, new bus...

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