VCTs

Hargreave Hale plans to use rules that governed the VCT sector prior to April 2006 when making new qualifying investments for its two AIM VCTs.

Managers have welcomed Treasury proposals to relax the rules governing VCT and EIS investment.

ViCTory VCT has appointed Paul Jourdan's Amati Global Investors as its new fund manager, replacing Williams de Broe.

VCTs have invested almost £1bn in small companies between April 2004 and April 2009, according to a new survey from the AIC.

When Investment Week was launched on 30 January 1995, the industry was less than a decade into its life under the Financial Services Act and many advisers and product providers were getting used to the brave new world of polarisation.

Octopus Investments is hoping to raise £25m through Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trust 4, its latest VCT launch.

The announcement Daniel Godfrey is stepping down as director general of the Association of Investment Companies after 11 years at the helm is an appropriate time to focus on the performance of one of the main trade bodies representing the asset management...

Venture capital trusts (VCTs) aid economic growth through their investments in small businesses, according to Albion Ventures.

Enterprise investment schemes will see a number of improvements implemented to the schemes in this year's Finance Act.

Octopus Ventures has taken a holding in The Key Revolution for £1.25m through its Titan VCTs 1 and 2....