Ian Battersby: How is the turn-of-year EIS landscape shaping up?

Enterprise investment scheme (EIS) season is beginning to gather pace with advisers scouring the market of ‘Open Offers' once more to work out what their panels will look like going into 2017. Has it really come around again to January tax return deadlines and pre-tax year-end planning? Does it ever change? Well, actually, this year it might just have done. Since this time last year, we have had Brexit, a new prime minister, disturbed currency markets and we are also experiencing the first full year in which pension freedoms have taken effect. With tax-advantaged investments in largely u...