Blog: Will we ever embrace crowd investing?

In my role as chairman of the Alternative Business Funding portal I am frequently in contact with crowdfunding sites, from little ones just getting going to the biggest and most established players. All of them harbour ambitions to have a relationship with the advisory community where, in their eyes, crowdfunding activities would be considered another asset class to be advised upon where appropriate. The recent Rebus debacle, and the fallout from it, has shown just how far from reality this aspiration is. In this particular case investors lost their shirts completely, and not long ...