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My wife and I run a shop involved in the retailing of women’s clothing primarily for occasion wear with evening and casual wear too. We’ve been in business now for 10 years from the same location in central Edinburgh. In this time retailing has seen a dramatic increase in online activity with consumers viewing and […]

Will “Help To Buy” Allow A Foot In The Door In The Property Market For Those Cash Strapped Buyers or Is it just Wishful Government Policy? Currently I’m trying to sell my share of a co-owned property with my brothers. It’s never an easy task when two of us wish to retain ownership. Unsurprisingly they

Many global stock markets have suffered substantial falls from recent market peaks lately and in view of socio-political tensions in Turkey. Investors there have been hit hard with the largest falls for years in early June. However the situation to its southern borders adds to its problems.

It’s been noted that market rallies in equities have four distinguishable phases. They’re born in mood of pessimism, pass into a sceptical or cautious phase and then move into an optimistic phase. Lastly, they turn euphoric before the next correction looms. The length of time for each phase or rally in general varies.

Reading the financial press either online or in paper form is an every day or weekly activity of a private investor-looking for articles that provide an insight into a company specific opportunity or adding further weight or momentum to a big theme that matters, like the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, which leads to

For those Latin scholars please forgive any syntax or grammar discrepancies as the headline suggests March has been a month for major developments. Apart from market or political based events which drive the economic or social lives of people on planet today. There have been a couple of other events one religious and one scientific

In the Summer Olympics of 2012 the UK successfully demonstrated that it can deliver a major global project on time and to budget (leaving aside the G4S personnel shortages covered by the British soldiers). In recent times I add the magnificent High Speed 1(HS1) rail link from the Channel tunnel to St. Pancreas Station, London.

Equity markets have continued their upward trend since the start of the New Year. Does this renewed confidence for risky assets merit a new found faith in the general world economy or is the idea of rotation out of overpriced, safer perceived assets such as US or UK Government bonds or German Bunds finally gaining

As mentioned in November’s blog I have been an active business angel since 2001. My VC activities have been a little disappointing with much success being made of too little and many complete failure as may be expected of course. I have had some success although never as good a return as anticipated. Perhaps about

I’ve been involved in business angel investing as an individual investor – or by joining/starting a club or syndicate of individual investors with the wish to provide equity risk capital to start-up or new companies – since 2001. The basic aim is to provide funding for high growth young companies, enabling them to grow quickly