Ian Battersby: Building EIS into a client investment strategy

The implications of ‘growth capital’

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With this the time of year when advisers tend to start weighing up what the EIS market has to offer, Ian Battersby takes a closer look at the challenges they and their clients are likely to encounter

September is traditionally the time when advisers start to contemplate their Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) activity - reviewing their provider panels and looking at what the market has to offer. So how does the landscape look as the ‘new season' gets underway? First of all, those investors who still prefer to opt for the more conservative end of the market are likely to find that asset-backed type offerings are becoming much harder to find outside of the usual media investments. No doubt there will be a limited supply as the season progresses, but these tend to be fully subscribe...

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