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...Ben Yearsley, a wealth manager at Wealth Club, described the rule changes as “fairly draconian”....
...Joseph Smith, producer at Elton John’s theatre company Rocket Stage and chief executive of Stage One, a charity that trains producers, agrees about the motivation of theatre investors....
...“As pension rules have become more restrictive, many high earners have turned to the relatively generous allowances of venture capital trusts and EIS as an alternative,” said Ben Yearsley, investment director...
...John Thorpe, business line manager for EIS at Octopus, said the group was “clearly very disappointed by the performance of this tranche of EIS”....
...The sixth, John Laing Environmental Assets, also has exposure to waste management. These funds currently yield between 5.5 and 7 per cent....
...John Glencross, chief executive of Calculus Capital, said there was no evidence that the government is looking at EIS in terms of tax avoidance....
...Yearsley likes the First State Global infrastructure fund....
...Ben Yearsley, investment manager at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: “While we have no reason to disbelieve Gartmore, or to believe the situation is worse than presented to us, the reality is the facts are still...
...Ben Yearsley, investment manager with Hargreaves Lansdown, says: “Nutt’s talented, but he’s going through a quiet period.” Mr Nutt joined Jupiter in 1996 from Robert Fleming....
...● PSigma Asset Management has hired Lachlan Yearsley as operations manager from Credit Suisse....
...Yearsley says that cautious investors could opt for absolute return funds such as Cazenove UK Absolute Target or Blackrock UK Absolute Alpha....
...Ben Yearsley, an adviser at Hargreaves Lansdown, says: “There is talk of bottoming out but it hasn’t really fed through to the greater public....
...“Managers are polarised between those with financials and those without,” says Ben Yearsley at Hargreaves Lansdown....
...“It’s a reasonable fit so long as these star managers are retained and allowed to do what they want,” says Ben Yearsley, investment manager at the advisory firm Hargreaves Lansdown....
...John Jay, New Star’s development director, said the company would now look at “more dynamic communication between fund managers”....
...Handing over the majority share in his business to the banks that loaned the money must be difficult for New Star founder John Duffield....
...John Weguelin, chief executive of European Islamic Investment Bank, says: “We are fortunate that many of our clients have not been adversely affected by the credit crisis, although some investors are waiting...
...“VCTs can be incredibly illiquid,” says John Davey, research analyst at Bestinvest, the advisory firm. “The only reasons to sell tend to be divorce, hardship or death.”...
...“The fee-based model is gaining ground across Europe,” says John Davies, director of Standard & Poor’s....
...“There’s clearly a lot of disappointment with returns on the stock market,” says Ben Yearsley of advisory firm Hargreaves Lansdown....
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