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Crowdfunders: A look at crowdfunding platforms Wealthify and Crowd for Angels

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Crowdfunders: A look at crowdfunding platforms Wealthify and Crowd for Angels
Welcome to Crowdfunders with Share Radio's Ed Bowsher, the show that covers peer-to-peer lending and all other forms of alternative finance. On this week's show: Ed focuses on two businesses that are raising cash on equity crowdfunding platforms at the moment. One is a robo-investment platform called Wealthify - it's a low-cost online investment service that picks investments for its customers based on their attitude to risk. Ed also investigates a crowdfunding platform called Crowd for Angels that is currently raising money to grow its business.

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Ed Bowsher

Crowdfunders: The Innovative Finance ISA, assessing Seedrs

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: The Innovative Finance ISA, assessing Seedrs
This is 'Crowdfunders', the Share Radio programme that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance. On today's show, Share Radio's Ed Bowsher discusses a report which looks at the investment performance of one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms: Seedrs Ed also finds out about the latest developments with the Innovative Finance ISA. This ISA still hasn't really got up and running yet - even though it was supposed to be widely available from April.

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Crowdfunders: The mega-risk 'mega-bus' project

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Crowdfunders: The mega-risk 'mega-bus' project
This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers the fast growing world of alternative finance. In today's show, Ed Bowsher looks at the peer to peer sector in China and, in particular, a scandal where investors ended up lending money to a high risk 'mega-bus' project. The investors probably won't be getting their money back. Ed also looks at risk in peer to peer lending with Neil Faulkner from the 4th way website.

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Ed Bowsher

Crowdfunders: Platform Black & Offr - 'Tinder for Crowdfunding'

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: Platform Black & Offr - 'Tinder for Crowdfunding'
This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers peer to peer lending and all other forms of crowdfunding. In today's show, Ed Bowsher looks at Platform Black, a peer to peer lending platform that is starting to do a bit of lending itself, plus he also finds out more about a mobile app that's been described as the 'tinder for crowdfunding’ – Offr.

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Crowdfunders: The impact of the base rate cut on peer to peer lending & a look at WiseAlpha

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: The impact of the base rate cut on peer to peer lending & a look at WiseAlpha
This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance with Share Radio's Senior Analyst, Ed Bowsher. In this edition: A closer look at a platform which is opening parts of the bond market which have previously been closed off to private investors, that's WiseAlpha and it's CEO Rezaah Ahmad, and whether the base rate cut from the BoE is going to seriously affect the peer to peer lending market.

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Ed Bowsher

Crowdfunders: A 'best of' edition featuring London Fintech Podcast, Archover, AltFi & Finnexis & more

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: A 'best of' edition featuring London Fintech Podcast, Archover, AltFi & Finnexis & more
Ed Bowsher is away on holiday this week so we have dipped into the archives to bring you some of the best bits from our earliest Crowdfunders shows. In the first part of the show, Ed spoke to Angus Dent from ArchOver and Mike Baliman from the London Fintech Podcast on why the P2P/crowdfunding sector had taken off. In the second part, Ed looked at risk, for savers and lenders across a range of crowdfunding tools. His guests were Angus Dent of Archover, David Stephenson of AltFi & Chris Sier from Finnexis.

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Ed Bowsher

Crowdfunders: Using crowdfunding to bid for grant money, plus a look at equity crowdfunding firm - Crowdcube

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: Using crowdfunding to bid for grant money, plus a look at equity crowdfunding firm - Crowdcube
A brand new edition of Crowdfunders, with Share Radio’s Senior Analyst, Ed Bowsher. In today’s show: Ed looks at a new development in crowdfunding where you can potentially bid for grant money via a crowdfunding platform. But he started with Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding platform that is currently raising money for its own business via a share issue – he spoke to Luke Lang, the co-founder.

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Crowdfunders: Property crowdfunding with Housecrowd CEO Frazer Fearnhead & reward-based crowdfunding

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: Property crowdfunding with Housecrowd CEO Frazer Fearnhead & reward-based crowdfunding
This is Crowdfunders with Share Radio's Senior Analyst - Ed Bowsher - the only show dedicated to the fast growing world of alternative finance, today featuring Frazer Fearnhead, CEO of property crowdfunding firm 'Housecrowd', a look at rewards-based crowdfunding & crowdfunding news.

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Ed Bowsher

Crowdfunders: Property crowdfunding with Housecrowd CEO Frazer Fearnhead & reward-based crowdfunding

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: Property crowdfunding with Housecrowd CEO Frazer Fearnhead & reward-based crowdfunding
This is Crowdfunders with Share Radio's Senior Analyst - Ed Bowsher - the only show dedicated to the fast growing world of alternative finance, today featuring Frazer Fearnhead, CEO of property crowdfunding firm 'Housecrowd', a look at rewards-based crowdfunding & crowdfunding news.

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Ed Bowsher

Crowdfunders: Will a vote for Brexit shake up the alternative finance industry? Plus - a look at Essentia

Ed Bowsher
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Crowdfunders: Will a vote for Brexit shake up the alternative finance industry? Plus - a look at Essentia
This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance, hosted by Share Radio's Senior Analyst, Ed Bowsher. With all the talk of Brexit, Ed takes a look at whether a 'leave' vote would make any difference to the alternative finance industry by speaking to David Stevenson from the Altfi website to find out more. He also looks at a business that is trying to help investors counteract their behavioural biases - so for example, some investors are reluctant to take a loss and hang onto a share for too long. A business called Essentia helps fund managers avoid that kind of mistake, and is raising money on one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms. He talks to the companies CEO, Clare Flynn Levy.

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