EIS

Innovative product launches offer boost to SRI sector.

VCT, EIS and Seed EIS offer advisers great tax planning and investment opportunities for their clients, particularly in the run up to the end of the tax year. But how do advisers ensure they get the right scheme to meet the needs of their client?

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

A solar power stock that has soared over 500% year-to- date has boosted Allianz Global Investors' RCM Global Technology trust to top-decile performance.

Guinness Asset Management has appointed Malcolm King as investment manager on the Guinness EIS team.

WEALTH MANAGERS

ALTERNATIVES

There had been strong hints the new financial services regulator, the FCA, was preparing to make the right decision about whether VCTs and EIS could be sold to ordinary retail investors.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is planning a consultation on the sale of new complex financial products created by banks and building societies to boost capital.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes to ordinary retail investors.