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Why our growth barometer is a project to be proud of

NEXT week, the deadline closes for the search for this year’s fastest growing Welsh companies. Read

It’s worth considering trusts when doing inheritance tax planning

IT ONCE seemed so much more straightforward. If you had a considerably-sized estate and you wanted to save your offspring the burden of inheritance tax, there were a number of ways of gifting at least part of that estate away. Read

It is foolish to think rules apply to us all

I REALLY wished I had learned a bit more at school. As it is, I now take every opportunity to learn something new, hopefully every day. Some tit-bits are useful for dinner parties or brief conversations, but some lessons can be profound. Read

A positive attitude to risk is vital

MENTION innovation and many people will automatically think of research and development, with expenditure on people in laboratories, or else new product design, coming up with the next big gadget that displaces the existing market leader. Read

The small, the mighty and the bigger picture

DURING the past four and a half years of writing for the Western Mail, most of my writing has, quite naturally for an entrepreneurship academic, focused on highlighting some of the major issues facing the small firm sector in Wales. Read

Planning Bill critical to the UK’s future

LAST Sunday I found myself having to exercise my debating skills, courtesy of the BBC Politics Show, on the subject of the Planning Bill. Read

ISAs can be a flexible friend on the road to retirement

THERE are a growing number of people who view their retirement with some anxiety. Read

Waiting hopefully for a counter offer for A&L

IF I had a quid for every time someone excitedly enthused to me about a surprise surge in a share price, I wouldn’t need to work. Read

Time for action to support businesses

WITH the economic slowdown starting to bite and organisations such as the British Chambers of Commerce warning of recession, economic commentators are noting the acceleration in job losses across Wales. Read

Downturn means you can demand added value from your IFA

THERE is a consensus that we are now in the grip of an economic slowdown like no other. Read

Eloquent, confident and studious– that’s teenagers for you

IT is fashionable to be pretty disparaging about today’s teenagers. A typical week’s newspaper headlines will include stories about increasing numbers of teenage mothers, gang culture, old people afraid to venture outdoors in the evenings and the lack of work readiness of those leaving school. Read

Be ready to do your own thing in a bear market

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE once said “madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule”. Read

Making the most of those who have a taste for a start-up

DURING the past few weeks, I have been working alongside Dr Piers Thompson of the University of Glamorgan to examine the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and utilise the fantastic dataset we have to examine the specific phenomenon of those who start up more than one business, commonly known as habitual entrepreneurs. Read