VCTs

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....

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.

Bramdean's Nicola Horlick is launching a fund to raise as much as £2m for film development projects.

Chancellor George Osborne has announced a clampdown on venture capital trusts (VCTs) and enterprise investment schemes (EIS') purely set up to access tax reliefs.

VCTs

Nicola Horlick, chief executive of Bramdean Asset Management, has joined forces with two 3i alumni to launch a new investment business.

Octopus Investments has said it is working with the administrators of Glasgow Rangers after one of its investments was caught up in the debacle.

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.

Solar venture capital trusts (VCTs) have been handed a ‘lifeline' as the government lost its appeal against a High Court ruling on solar subsidies.

George Osborne has widened the investment universe for venture capital trusts (VCTs), removing the £1m investment limit per company rule, it was announced in today's Autumn Statement.