Advising entrepreneurs

Helen Morrissey
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Helen Morrissey talks to Addidi Wealth Management's Anna Sofat about her work with entrepreneurs

Why have you decided to work with entrepreneurs? We started off with the Addidi Angel investor group, a female investor group that invests in start-ups and small growth companies. In addition to the wealth planning side of things, we try to connect people with their money and there's an element of financial, social and personal return to this. Typically, financial services talk only about the financial return. Addidi Angels has been running since 2009 and has invested almost £1m in nine businesses. We have had two groups so far. As we came to a natural end with the first group of inve...

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