Yesterday brought some surprising news. Seedrs and Crowdcube are combining. You can read more about the merger here – https://www.seedrs.com/learn/blog/seedrs-news. I use both platforms as an investor and have had experience of raising money in the latter. Why my surprise?… Continue reading →
We’ve now got the numbers back for September as well as the last (third) quarter and we’ve had another good run for equities. Those of us expecting a nasty, brutish return from the summer holidays have been disappointed again, although… Continue reading →
As I talk a great deal about adventurous stuff, its inevitable that I will regularly end up talking about damned stupid ideas: in truth there have been plenty of them though not quite as some might think !One of them… Continue reading →
Remember the great cannabis gold rush? Thought not. A while ago I hosted a great little event at PR agency Maitland on the business behind Cannabis. There was lots of enthusiasm and a bunch of really great business ideas, mostly… Continue reading →
I’m not going to bore readers with my views on the imminent semi-lockdown but I do want address one issue that is I think proving to be a major problem: the lack of granular data informing meaningful debate about what… Continue reading →
Much as we stock market observers love to babble on about valuations, I’ve long been aware that this is largely a futile exercise. My favourite trick is to go Robert Shiller’s stockmarkets data website, and call up the CAPE data… Continue reading →
I have to say that Vincent Deluard at US based outfit StoneX is fast turning into arguably the most articulate and readable quant expert writing today. Every few months he comes out with a great paper which nicely sums up… Continue reading →
I have a new fund that has popped up on my radar – it’s a specialist late stage biotech/medtech venture capital fund called RTW Venture Fund. Most investor’s I have talked to haven’t heard of the fund and that’s largely… Continue reading →
I think if you sat most growth orientated investors down and talked to them about the big industry move that will change everything in the next few years, they’d probably very quickly get to the prospects of a new electric… Continue reading →
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