Money Makers

In the latest Money Makers podcast I talk to fund manager Charlie Morris, Chief Investment Officer at Netscape Capital, about the phenomenon that is bitcoin. To my knowledge Charlie has been actively researching bitcoin and other "digital assets" for at least five years. He explains why the mainstream investment community needs to take off its nose-peg and try to understand what is driving the price and usage higher - a must-listen for anyone trying to make sense of this recent financial market phenomenon.

Money Makers With Paul Jourdan - How to make sense of sky high earnings multiples by Jonathan Davis

Money Makers: How Warren Buffett made his first $100 million - with Glenn Arnold by Jonathan Davis

In the latest Money Makers podcast Trevor Greetham, head of multi-asset investment strategy at Royal London Asset Management, one of the UK’s biggest pension fund and with-profits investment firms, explains what is driving the firm’s current thinking – and why he thinks the current bull market in equities could continue for another 1-2 years. Mr Greetham is a 25-year veteran of the investment business, and one of the UK’s higher profile strategists, having previously worked at Fidelity and Merrill Lynch. Topics covered include not just stocks and bonds, but Brexit, inflation, interest rates, annuities and pension drawdown.

Ben Rogoff: Can technology stocks go higher still? by Jonathan Davis

Talking Money: Andrew Milligan, chief strategist at Standard Aberdeen, discusses world markets by Jonathan Davis

Talking Money: Paul Mumford - The stocks and sectors that I like most today by Jonathan Davis

Lee Gardhouse is the Chief Investment Office of Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest stock and fund broking firm, which boasts 950,000 active clients and administers or manages £79 billion of client money on its platform. His responsibilities include researching the firm’s influential Wealth 150 list of favourite funds and managing its range of in-house multi-manager funds. In the latest Money Makers podcast, he and Jonathan Davis discuss the way that HL chooses funds - a highly topical issue in the wake of the regulator’s forthcoming review of how investment platforms research, rate and charge for the funds they put on their best buy lists, Lee also explains whyHargreaves Lansdown recently published its own assessment of how well its Wealth 150 selections have performed - and candidly assesses both tis strengths and weaknesses of its methods.

In this week’s Money Makers podcast Jonathan Davis talks to Keith Ashworth-Lord, manager of the Sanford DeLand UK Buffetology fund, about his investment philosophy and current portfolio. A former City analyst, Mr Ashworth-Lord has put in a strong performance since moving into fund management with his specialist small and mid-cap fund. Many professional investors name check Warren Buffett as an inspiration, but what exactly are the key principles that other professional investors can usefully incorporate into their methods - and how well do they translate to the UK market?

In our latest Money Makers podcast we turn our attention to venture capital trusts, specialist investment vehicles which put investors’ capital to work in higher risk, early-stage businesses. VCTs, as they are known, offer significant potential tax benefits for those prepared to risk their money in this way. This year the marketing of VCTs has started earlier than normal. Why is that – and what else do potential investors need to know about the VCT market this year? Are the tax benefits worth the rewards? Chris Hutchinson, lead manager of the £150m Unicorn AIM VCT, the largest VCT specialising in AIM-listed companies, is the man on the other side of the microphone for this in-depth discussion.