Maven Capital Partners – Maven income & Growth VCT, VCT 2, 3 & 4 Joint Offer
Type: Venture capital trusts
Aim: Growth and income by investing in unquoted UK companies
Minimum investment: Lump sum £5,000
Closing date: April 5, 2010 for 2009/10 tax year, April 30, 20101 for 2010/11 tax year
Charges: Initial 5%,
Commission: Initial 3%, renewal 0.25% for three years
Tel: 0141 306 7400
The Government’s 100 per cent guarantee on Northern Rock’s savings is expected to end in the coming weeks.
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IFA firm Carterbar has been asked by the FSA to help workers at Corus steel plant manage their finances when it closes temporarily.
Several emerging market funds appeared in the bestseller list on Hargreaves Lansdown’s Vantage platform in January, alongside the enduringly popular equity income offerings.
James Dowey, Chief Economist, and Paul Caruana-Galizia, Economist
The conventional wisdom is that following a roughly 50 per cent rise in the stock market in 2013 in Yen terms, the Japan trade is over and done*. So the story goes, those big gains were due to a one-off boost from quantitative easing (QE) and a depreciation of the Yen — policies that one should think of as a palliative to Japan’s economic weakness, but not a cure. Rather the cure, and by implication the necessary condition for a longer-term investment case, is deep structural reforms — a painstaking re-weaving of Japan’s economic and social fabric, no less. The story continues: this is a much tougher test than launching a blast of QE, and one that prime minister Shinzo Abe, although well intentioned and well supported by the public thus far, is likely to fail. Stick a fork in Japan, it’s done…continue reading
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BlackRock and Schroders are frontrunners to manage £109bn for Lloyds Banking Group’s Scottish Widows Investment Partnership funds, Bloomberg reports. The London-based bank is set to make its decision in the third quarter of this year, after it invited bids for its contract at the start of this year after ending the agreement it had with […]