Wealthy investors are being offered more incentives to put money into start-up ventures as part of the government’s push to promote Silicon Valley-style “angel investment”. A waiver on capital gains tax (CGT) for investors in early stage enterprises is being extended for another year, a senior official at HM Revenue & Customs said. The move should …Continue Reading
In November 2011, George Osborne hatched a plan to give investors up to 78 per cent tax relief on investments into small start-up companies. He called it the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (Seis). SEIS, which kicked off in April 2012, offers upfront income tax relief of 50 per cent, and an exemption from capital gains tax if …Continue Reading
The Share Republic received its Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme Advance Assurance from the UK HMRC on 10 September 2012. This implies that The Share Republic is authorised to issue share certificates under section 257EC(1) ITA 2007 for ordinary shares issued to individual investors. The Share Republic became a plc and issued an offer for subscription …Continue Reading
The Share Republic CEO, Geoffrey Hoodless, was one of the judges at the 2012 Greenwich University annual Students Business Plans Competition with 140 participants . The winner was Harry Furneaux, for Active Snaps, an innovative instant 3D photo service for tourist attractions. Runner up Ibrahim Ali has since been in touch with The Share Republic to …Continue Reading
As part of the University of Greenwich Big Picture Seminars, Geoffrey Hoodless gave a talk about his 30 years’ experience in the City as an employee, analyst, fund manager, insurer, and entrepreneur. Geoffrey Hoodless, CEO, The Share Republic.com Limited said: “Entrepreneurship is about creating as well as funding a company. I was delighted to have …Continue Reading
The Share Republic.com is a proud sponsor of the “Best Student Business Plan” at the Business School University of Greenwich, London. The sponsorship award was collected by Geoffrey Hoodless, The Share Republic.com CEO, who will be involved with the mentoring as well as judging the work of Undergraduate and Postgraduate participants next spring. Read more …Continue Reading
“Geoffrey Hoodless, founder of entrepreneurial small company broking group HB Markets, hopes to provide ‘enterprising individuals and companies’ with easier access to stock markets through his new online share dealing platform, thesharerepublic.com. Under the slogan ‘shares for the people’, Hoodless, no stranger to controversy over the years, has already launched a ‘banana share portfolio’, which is …Continue Reading
The Share Republic.com launches its share trading education tool, Bananas Portfolio. It is a virtual share trading platform designed to emulate real trading scenarios, where users can learn how to invest in real companies quoted on the stock markets without risking a single penny. Too bad if they make a handsome profit though, that has no …Continue Reading
Rob Virtue from The Wharf reports in “Honour: Docklands firm wins six prizes at top financial awards” “Geoffrey Hoodless says his company offers one of the cheapest execution-only online trading services”.He added that ” there is a growing number of independent investors who like to have a DIY approach to their finances. Our clients are like individual …Continue Reading
