Graham Bishop, investment director at Heartwood Investment Management, gives his insight on what we can expect in 2019.

Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet, Chief Executive of EdtechX Holdings, the Nasdaq-listed education technology acquisition company, discusses why the future is bright for EdTech companies.

Institutional investors – excited by greater regulatory clarity - are going to drive “considerable expansion” of the cryptocurrency market in 2019.

Dow Schofield Watts director David Smith gives his views on how to create a successful portfolio of angel investments.

In its latest interview Invested Investor talks to Bridget Connell, an Invested Investor who started investing four years ago and has completed five deals since. Bridget previously worked in technology, so she supports tech startups and mentors female investors and entrepreneurs through the syndicate Angel Academe. Bridget is a strong believer in the importance of  due diligence when working on a project; she stays close to each company she works with and supports them by drawing other investors close as well. She talks here about her desire to see more diversity in the investment world and is a strong champion for ‘Women in Investments’.   

The demise of online estate agency eMoov is a cautionary tale of how difficult it is to succeed in a ruthlessly competitive B2C market, even when making what appear to be all the right moves.

It wasn’t lack of a great product that caused eMoov to fold. Nor was it strategic or management mistakes. And it certainly wasn’t because the company lacked good leadership. In Russell Quirk, eMoov had an excellent CEO who did a great job building the business to become one of the UK’s biggest hybrid estate agents. He also hired an impressive C level team with experience from Just Eat, BookaTable and Groupon.

So, if it wasn’t any of those things, what did go wrong?

David Absolon, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management, looks ahead and assesses the market for credit investors.

Eva Rez from Episode 1 gives her explores Investing in Computing Architecture in the second part of this series.

Episode 1's Eva Rez gives her insight into the opportunities and challenges around investing in Computing Architecture.

Sunday's announcement that EU leaders have agreed to the draft Brexit deal, brought forward by Theresa May, puts us one step closer to the end of the road. 

Michael Stanes, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management

Global investors have had a love-hate relationship with Japan for many years. Effectively ignored for two decades since the bubble years of the late 1980s (with some short bursts of enthusiasm in between), the arrival of Shinzo Abe as prime minister in 2012 kindled hopes that this sleeping giant would find its feet, and help unlock the latent potential of its corporate and consumer sectors.

HM Treasury has announced an action plan to increase the growth for UK SME's by aiming to spend £1 in every £3 with SMEs, directly or through the supply chain, by 2022, meaning that 33% of all money spent should go to SMEs. It is important to highlight that this action is aimed at breaking down barriers for SME's who want to supply the public sector.