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To quote Ray Dalio, “Principles connect your values to your actions.” With that in mind, welcome to this insightful Investing Matters interview with Richard Stone, hugely talented former Chartered Accountant, Equity Analyst, Financial Controller, Finance Director, CEO, leader and now Chief Executive of the Association of Investment Companies, which he joined in September 2021. Prior to that, Richard was Chief Executive of Share plc (The Share Centre platform) from 2014 to 2020 and was Finance Director from 2006 to 2013. At Share plc he positioned the company to deliver exceptional customer service, including digital transformation, for both direct retail clients and other partner investment firms. Floating the business on London' Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in May 2008. Richard led Share Plc for seven years as Group CEO prior to the business being purchased by Interactive Investor in 2020. Many of you will be aware that as a subsidiary of Interactive Investor, that Share plc was purchased in May 2022 by the behemoth investment company Abrdn Plc. Having had an interest in stocks and shares since his teens. Richard's passion for numbers led to him pursuing and attaining a Philosophy, Politics and Economics Degree at York University. Following this he gained his “first proper job” with Ernst & Young (EY) as a Trainee Accountant. Richard excelled at EY and went on to win the coveted KPMG Peat Prize (The Peat Gold Medal & Prize) for the highest mark in his final Chartered Accountancy exams. Richard is qualified ICAEW Chartered Accountant. After some year auditing for EY, Richard got the opportunity in 1999 to move to London to work as a software and information technology equity analyst for the US-based Investment Bank, Robertson Stephens. Where he worked on numerous IPOs in London. He then moved to ECsoft Group Plc the Information Technology Consulting Service co, a dual listed Nasdaq firm as their Financial Controller. Following which he moved to Huntsworth Plc, becoming their first Financial Director, where as part of the team backed by 3i, worked diligently and rapidly over three years grew the company from 100 members of staff to 600. He then joined Gavin Oldham at the Share Centre (Share Plc). Richard has seen and worked across the US & UK Capital Markets from almost every angle during the past two decades, which makes for fantastic and insightful Investing Matters which will be informative for all. In this Investing Matters interview, Richard gives a brief overview of his roles and responsibilities at the Association of Investment Companies, AIC's fantastic team, Investment companies' growth, capital raising, dividends, reasons to be optimistic and much more. Topics and discussions also include: -Equity participation -Investment companies / Investment Trusts “Never get into stockbroking” -Studying economics / Big privatisations -Investment companies discounts to Net Asset Value, tightening cycle -Private Equity -Renewables / Infrastructure - Reasons to optimistic -The UK market “is pregnant with value” -Mergers, wind-ups, buybacks -The British ISA -Shareholder engagement -Investment companies cost disclosures -Stamp Duty -AIC's education & building awareness strategy -Structural benefits of investing in investment trusts -Dividend Heroes -A long-term savings plan -Long-term investment outperformance -Investing & much more We hope you enjoy this podcast, and we look forward to hearing your feedback. Please subscribe to this podcast on your platform of choice and follow the @InvMattPodcast on Twitter.

Vox Screens Stocks: John & Justin pick profitable small cap stocks below their NAV The stocks that populate this screen have to fit the following criteria: - Market Capitalisation: Maximum £250m - Price to Net Asset Value is less than 1 - Profitable - Positive Forecast Earnings Per Share Growth - Net Gearing is a maximum of 10% John's Pick is: Tandem Group #TND Tandem Group plc is a designer, developer, distributor and retailer of sports, leisure and mobility products listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The country of incorporation and the main country of operation is the United Kingdom. Justin's Pick is: Time Finance #TIME Time Finance's core strategy is to provide the finance that UK SMEs require to fund their businesses. It offers a multi-product range concentrating on asset, loan and invoice finance. While focussed on being an 'own-book' lender, the Group does retain the ability to broke-on deals where appropriate, enabling it to optimize business levels through market and economic cycles.

WH Ireland's CEO Phillip Wale presents a short overview of the Group's half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2022. Phillip Wale, CEO 00:16 - Introduction 00:36 - Financial highlights 01:37 - Wealth management 02:49 - Capital markets 4:00 - Current trading and outlook WH Ireland Group plc is a holding company. The Company's principal activities are the provision of wealth management and corporate finance advice, research, products and services to the private clients, and small and medium sized companies. It operates through two segments, which include Private Wealth Management and Corporate Broking. The Private Wealth Management segment offers investment management advice and services to individuals and contains its wealth planning business, giving advice on and acting as intermediary for a range of financial products. The Corporate Broking segment provides corporate finance and corporate broking advice and services to the companies, and acts as nominated advisor to clients listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The Corporate Broking segment contains its institutional sales and research business, which carries out stockbroking activities on behalf of companies, as well as conducting research into markets of interest to its clients.

Vox Screens Stocks: John & Justin pick a stock from the screen of screens In this podcast we review the performance of the stocks we have picked from previous screeners, over the last six months, and pick a few companies from this list we believe should continue to perform. John's Pick are: CML Microsystems #CML & Severfield #SFR CML Microsystems: CML develops mixed-signal, RF and microwave semiconductors for global communications markets. The Group utilises a combination of outsourced manufacturing and in-house testing with trading operations in the UK, Asia and USA. CML targets sub-segments within Communication markets with strong growth profiles and high barriers to entry. It has secured a diverse, blue chip customer base, including some of the world's leading commercial and industrial product manufacturers. The spread of its customers and diversity of the product range largely protects the business from the cyclicality usually associated with the semiconductor industry. Growth in its end markets is being driven by factors such as the appetite for data to be transmitted faster and more securely, the upgrading of telecoms infrastructure around the world and the growing prevalence of private commercial wireless networks for voice and/or data communications linked to the industrial internet of things (IIoT). Severfield: "Since our inception we've become internationally synonymous with quality, innovation and unrivalled expertise within the steel industry. Today, with multiple sites in the UK and our India factory, we have an annual capacity to produce around 300,000 tonnes of fabricated steelwork. You'll find our legacy in infrastructure, transport, culture, the commercial sector and more; you'll be surprised to see just how many of the iconic landmarks and buildings you know and love are part of our portfolio - see our projects for some examples of work we're really proud of".   Justin's Pick is: Argentex #AGFX & K3 Capital #K3C Argentex Argentex is a leading provider of foreign exchange services to financial institutions, corporates, and private clients globally. "We are an FCA regulated, founder-led business listed on the London Stock Exchange. We have traded more than $75bn in over 70 currencies for our clients since 2012. Making and receiving payments on their behalf. We are a profitable, debt-free, cash rich business and operate as a Riskless Principal broker for non-speculative and commercial currency transactions. Whether our clients' objectives are short or long-term, our sharp execution combined with expert analysis achieves material impact on both pricing and efficiency" K3 Capital K3 Capital Group plc is a multi-disciplinary and complementary group providing specialist advisory services to SMEs, incorporating Business and Company Sales, Restructuring and Insolvency and Tax Advisory services. The Group floated on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in April 2017.

WH Ireland's CEO Phillip Wale presents a short overview of the Group's half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2021. 00:24 Introduction 00:32 Financial highlights 01:28 Operational highlights 02:23 Wealth Management 03:00 Capital Markets 03:40 Strategy & Outlook WH Ireland Group plc is a holding company. The Company's principal activities are the provision of wealth management and corporate finance advice, research, products and services to the private clients, and small and medium sized companies. It operates through two segments, which include Private Wealth Management and Corporate Broking. The Private Wealth Management segment offers investment management advice and services to individuals and contains its wealth planning business, giving advice on and acting as intermediary for a range of financial products. The Corporate Broking segment provides corporate finance and corporate broking advice and services to the companies, and acts as nominated advisor to clients listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The Corporate Broking segment contains its institutional sales and research business, which carries out stockbroking activities on behalf of companies, as well as conducting research into markets of interest to its clients.

WH Ireland CEO, Phillip Wale, CEO, Chairman, Phil Shelley, CFO, Simon Jackson & Head of Wealth Management, Stephen Ford, present the interim results for the period ended 30th September 2021. Phillip Wale, CEO 00:18 – Introduction Phil Shelley, NEC 01:54 – Financial Highlights 03:37 – Operational Highlights Simon Jackson, CFO 05:45 – Income statement 06:51 - Gross revenue analysis 07:41 – Balance sheet & Regulatory capital Stephen Ford, Head of Wealth Management 08:36 – Wealth management Phil Shelley, NEC 11:07 – Capital markets 12:39 – Strategy 15:44 – Current trading & Outlook WH Ireland Group plc is a holding company. The Company's principal activities are the provision of wealth management and corporate finance advice, research, products and services to the private clients, and small and medium sized companies. It operates through two segments, which include Private Wealth Management and Corporate Broking. The Private Wealth Management segment offers investment management advice and services to individuals and contains its wealth planning business, giving advice on and acting as intermediary for a range of financial products. The Corporate Broking segment provides corporate finance and corporate broking advice and services to the companies, and acts as nominated advisor to clients listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The Corporate Broking segment contains its institutional sales and research business, which carries out stockbroking activities on behalf of companies, as well as conducting research into markets of interest to its clients.

Phillip Wale, CEO, and Stephen Ford, Head of Wealth Management give an overview of FY21, the year ended 31st March. A strong performance from the Capital Markets Division and continued progress in Wealth Management has delivered the first profit in five years and has enabled considerable investment across the Group to ensure future growth. Phillip Wale, CEO 00:21 – Introduction 00:40 – Financial Highlights Divisional Review Stephen Ford, Head of Wealth Management 01:51 – Wealth Management Phillip Wale, CEO 03:41 – Capital Markets 05:07 – Current Trading and Outlook 05:35 – Summary WH Ireland Group plc is a holding company. The Company's principal activities are the provision of wealth management and corporate finance advice, research, products and services to the private clients, and small and medium sized companies. It operates through two segments, which include Private Wealth Management and Corporate Broking. The Private Wealth Management segment offers investment management advice and services to individuals and contains its wealth planning business, giving advice on and acting as intermediary for a range of financial products. The Corporate Broking segment provides corporate finance and corporate broking advice and services to the companies, and acts as nominated advisor to clients listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The Corporate Broking segment contains its institutional sales and research business, which carries out stockbroking activities on behalf of companies, as well as conducting research into markets of interest to its clients.

Cornish Metals, looking to IPO on AIM, great opportunity to gain exposure to copper, tin and lithium and support UK mining companies. Cornish Metals (https://businesscornwall.co.uk/news-by-industry/manufacturing-in-cornwall/2021/01/cornish-metals-investment-opportunity/) has selected Minexia’s platform-based finance solution, NR Private Market, to handle the interest from private investors wishing to participate its flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Cornish Metals announced its intention to apply for admission of its shares to trading on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange, earlier this month. Minexia operates an investor platform at www.nrprivatemarket.com which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. This is a free to invest, funding site which is designed to support earlier stage mining exploration and project development companies. https://www.share-talk.com/richard-williams-president-chief-executive-officer-of-cornish-metals-interview/

This video can be seen at: https://www.piworld.co.uk/2020/11/30/whireland-whi-conditional-acquisition-of-harpsden/   Phillip Wale, Chief Executive & Stephen Ford, Executive Director, Head of Wealth Management outline the WHI plan for growth, and where the Harpsden Wealth Management acquisition fits into that. Phillip Wale, Chief Executive Plan for growth - 00:40 Stephen Ford, Executive Director, Head of Wealth Management Harpsden Wealth Management acquisition – 01:17 Strategic rationale for the transaction - 02:06 Phillip Wale, Chief Executive Plan for growth: Capital Markets - 04:10 Summary: a simpler & scalable business - 04:58 WH Ireland Group plc is a holding company. The Company's principal activities are the provision of wealth management and corporate finance advice, research, products and services to the private clients, and small and medium sized companies. It operates through two segments, which include Private Wealth Management and Corporate Broking. The Private Wealth Management segment offers investment management advice and services to individuals and contains its wealth planning business, giving advice on and acting as intermediary for a range of financial products. The Corporate Broking segment provides corporate finance and corporate broking advice and services to the companies, and acts as nominated advisor to clients listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The Corporate Broking segment contains its institutional sales and research business, which carries out stockbroking activities on behalf of companies, as well as conducting research into markets of interest to its clients.

For smaller companies looking to raise more capital during the pandemic, listing on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) may be a great solution. In this episode, we hear how Polarean Imaging raised $25 million on the AIM. Polarean Imaging is an American life sciences technology company which chose to go public on the AIM with the assistance of SP Angel.   Speakers: Richard Hullihen | CEO, Polarean Imaging David Hignell | Director of Corporate Finance, SP Angel Vadim Alexandre | Head of Healthcare, SP Angel   Moderator: Sean Lager | International Partner, Frazier & Deeter

On the show we discuss Rahul’s early childhood and his motivation behind starting Storiyoh. How he moved from being an employee in London’s financial district to a full-time entrepreneur. From the 15th minute on, we talk about podcasting- Rahul’s love for BBC world services and how it inspired him to start Storiyoh. We talk about the business model of podcasting by breaking it into 3 topics- distribution, consumption and monetization. We talk about the typical going rates of ads on podcasts, the disparities in listenership across different geographies. I was surprised to learn that  China is the biggest podcasting market in the world with it generating revenues of 7B$ in 2016. Chinese who have a reputation for being frugal are more than willing to pay for good content. We discuss advantages of free v/s paid content and how podcasters shouldn’t shy away from pricing their episodes. We talk podcasting for the mass v/s niche. We discuss the ad model versus paid model and pros and cons of each of these. We answer the question – Is good content good enough for a podcast’s success? Rahul compares podcasting and its marketing to a book/movie launch and draws relevant parallels. Finally, we get Rahul’s 2 cents on being a perpetual learner and doing deep work. With that, I leave you to listen to my wide ranging conversation with Rahul Nair, founder and CEO of Storiyoh. Please enjoy.  Show notes- Storiyoh- https://www.storiyoh.com/ You can reach Rahul on-  Email- rahul@storiyoh.com Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100021699556849 About Rahul- Rahul has over 13 years of experience across domains including financial services, entrepreneurship, consulting, and has experience working in the education sector in India. He started his career as a private-client and institutional stockbroker in London, selling IPOs to London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), subsequently co-founding a business in the niche real-estate asset class of student and staff housing. He then founded and managed his own coffee retail and hospitality business for two years before advancing his professional experience with EY, Dubai and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Dubai in accounting and IPO advisory services respectively, working across sectors including healthcare, hospitality, real-estate, construction and trading. Rahul did his schooling in Mumbai, Shanghai, Coimbatore and Dubai before moving to the University of Liverpool from where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics and International Development. He also holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During his stockbroking days, he was an Associate of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI), and, most recently, was also an education sector chair at the Learning Innovations Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Paul Johnson will be recognised by a few investors who trade on the AIM.  He has been investing in the UK financial markets since 18 years of age (30+ years) and the Alternative Investment Market (“AIM”) for 20 years or so. I can feel the sentiment and it’s dire in the resource space right now and that delays price recoveries – though sentiment can change in a few days in our sector. The junior resource stocks have been pummelled in recent months and sentiment has dropped to one of the lowest levels I have experienced. That’s key as sentiment is one of the biggest drivers behind stock prices. The level of negativity is scary in one sense but highly positive in another. As Rick Rule from Sprott has said, bear markets are the authors of bull markets and from my sense of the sentiment barometer, things are so desperate we are not too far away from a swing back into a bull resources phase.

In this week's personal finance podcast the team look at what is really generating growth in tech stocks with special guest Dennis Hall, chief executive officer of Yellowtail Financial Planning. They also consider the merits of investing in the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) and how to save for retirement costs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Valued at £80 billion, the UK's junior stock market is hyped as the most successful growth market in the world. Government incentives - including stamp duty and inheritance tax breaks - mean that more ordinary UK investors are opting for the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Set up in 1995 to allow smaller companies to raise funds, AIM is a less-regulated alternative to its big brother, the main London Stock Exchange. But it is no stranger to controversy. Once labelled a "casino" by a senior US regulator due to its lax regulation, the market has been hit by a series of recent high profile scandals. File on Four asks if this light-touch regulation poses a hidden risk for shareholders and if unscrupulous businesses are exploiting AIM to rip off ordinary British investors? Producer: Alys Harte Reporter: Simon Cox.