Mike Morrow - Ascentric

Real Assets Alternative Investment Summit: Mike Morrow

16 Jan 2014 5 minutes

  • Mike Morrow, Sales & Marketing Director at Ascentric talks about the challenges of getting alternatives onto platforms, and the hurdles advisers may face.

Alternative Finance Alternative Investment Summit: Rhydian Lewis

7 Jan 2014 5 minutes

  • Rhydian Lewis, CEO of Ratesetter talks about the business model of his company, and its success so far, as well as his views on the recent FCA paper CP13/13.

Jason Pope - FCA

Real Assets Alternative Investment Summit: Jason Pope

18 Dec 2013 5 minutes

  • Jason Pope, Technical Specialist from the FCA explains the regulators stance on alternative investments, and how the FCA are trying to strike a balance.

Alternative Finance Spotlight: Alternative Finance

11 Dec 2013 20 minutes

  • This month the spotlight has been turned onto the Alternative Finance space and explains the growing number of opportunities that allow investors to lend to both businesses and consumers using internet based platforms. We investigate lending on invoices with Market Invoice, lending to businesses to fund growth with RebuildingSociety and P2P lending to consumers via Ratesetter.

Real Assets Head to Head: Investing in Real Estate

29 Nov 2013 10 minutes

  • In this episode David and Lawrence discuss different ways to access property in investment portfolios whether through a fund, a trust or by buying property.

Real Assets Straight Talk: Property

25 Nov 2013 15 minutes

  • The straight talking show for financial professionals examines how investors can now access residential property as an asset class through funds and asks whether the UK housing market is turning into a bubble? In the hot seat is David Gibbons of Hearthstone.

Tax Efficient Head to Head: Venture Capital

25 Nov 2013 10 minutes

  • Lawrence Gosling and David Stevenson investigate the best way of investing in younger companies – should we use venture capital trusts, or invest directly with a venture capital firm or even a private equity fund? What are the risks with each method of investing , and is a focus on the tax advantages of venture capital trusts a sensible move for private investors?

Real Assets Investment 101: Gold

25 Oct 2013 10 minutes

  • As more and more investors opt to invest in the shiny stuff, we examine the choices for buying into gold, ranging from purchasing gold and bullion bars all the way through to investing in gold funds.