Every major pension industry in develop world is hugely overweight its domestic equity market - by an average of 2089%. The UK is 41% underweight its own. Even eliminating the anti-home bias would be constructive. And we wonder why we have an investment & productivity problem

One the one hand – deplorable; on the other, what a lovely picture of beautiful Plymouth. thetimes.co.uk/article/south-…

Nothing for the South West, again. Useless. #sunak

My latest column for The Times and The Sunday Times on ways to ride the rollercoaster when high inflation, a lost client or one-off business critical events occur thetimes.co.uk/article/the-da…

How do I mute all accounts with 'out of context' in their name and why are so many in my timeline?

Latest on Spectator and Telegraph sale:

Rupert Murdoch bid £50m two years ago for the Spectator and is holding meetings in London next week

Former Tel editor Will Lewis has sounded out potential investors for the Tel. With Thomas Seal and Alex Wickham

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Scoop: The entrepreneur who fabricated that Airbnb acquired his proptech company Letting Cloud has also misled investors during a £466k fundraise on Crowdcube for a separate venture that claims to be the “Uber of student rentals”.

Full story on UKTN 👇

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Remember last week Scottish proptech company @LettingCloud claimed it had been acquired by Airbnb, only for the US firm to deny it?

A UKTN investigation can reveal that Letting Cloud's CEO made the whole thing up.

And it only gets stranger...

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It was an absolute pleasure to run the final Tech Nation Masterclass today on the fundamentals of PR. Well done Nicky_Harrison and Peter Evans and a huge BRAVO to the brilliant Tech Nation team for supporting high growth technologies businesses so well all these years!

Robin Röhm, CEO of Apheris has mixed feelings about the EU’s upcoming legislation on #AI . “What I worry about is the way it’s constructed… We’ll put a lot of unnecessary bureaucracy over companies that are innovating quickly.”

Read more in @sifted: ​​bit.ly/3YRCPJC

The Government’s grand plan for turning the UK into a global “science and technology superpower” is… to introduce the equivalent of one more midsized VC fund.

Probably knock off early tbh, job done.

Via Amy Lewin Sifted sifted.eu/articles/uk-go…

Recognition at last

Small #businesses across the UK rely on #tax credits to continue developing cutting-edge #technology .

In this article, Nigel May, Tax Partner at @Gravita_UK, outlines how businesses can navigate the government’s proposed cuts to R&D.

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This is astonishing. Council paid £1 million to space launch firm Virgin Orbit cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-…

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Congratulations to ACF Investors on 10 years! Take a look at this some of their key achievements and stats in this new infographic #ACFInvestors