In this week's show Monica Tepes, director of investment companies research at Cantor Fitzgerald, joins the personal finance team to explain how investment trusts focused on alternative assets can generate a high income. They also set out the asset allocation models and funds you should be using in a Lifetime Isa, and explain how a new tax allowance could help to cut inheritance tax bills.

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Companies editor Ian Smith and the team discuss the week's takeover news, Imagination Technologies' Apple contract loss and RPC's bears.

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The subprime lender is delivering on the buy-and-build strategy it set out at admission to the main market two years ago. So why has its share price struggled? Its founder and chief executive, John van Kuffeler, discusses the group's growth, investment case and changing regulatory environment with the IC's companies editor Ian Smith.

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In this week's Personal Finance Show the team puts momentum investing under the microscope. Is it a good idea to buy winning stocks or is it a risky investment strategy? Deputy personal finance editor Kate Beioley talks to Rob Burgeman, investment manager at Brewin Dolphin and personal finance writer Emma Agyemang to weigh up the risks and rewards.The team also takes a look at two new high-income funds from Kames Capital and Miton and the investment trusts 'dividend heroes' that have increased their payouts for between 10 and 20 years.

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Editor John Hughman and guests discuss Brexit, corporate fines, ageing & more

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With money rotating out of bonds and into equity markets, value investing is back in vogue. But what constitutes value? How can investors spot it? And what are the common pitfalls?In this special podcast, tips editor Algy Hall and deputy companies editor Mark Robinson walk through the key measures and metrics beloved of value investors, with a little help from two of the UK's top fund managers.Produced by Graeme Davies, Dominic Toms and Alex Newman.

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Aviva faces regulatory changes, such as the 2015 pensions freedom reforms. It has been on the M&A trail, through its takeover of rival Friends Life. And now, it has set its sights on disrupting the Asian life market.It's also been a decent long-term investment since a strategic shift in 2012. Cash generation is up, debt is down, and non-core businesses are gone. Financial services writer Emma Powell spoke to Aviva's head of UK insurance Andy Briggs about the how investors can value life assurance in a diversifying business. Produced by Dominic Toms.

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In this week's show the team consider how to pick a good fund manager, and highlight some examples. They also look at the risks and rewards of the Lifetime Isa, which is set to launch next month. They are joined by Darius McDermott, managing director at Chelsea Financial Services.

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Editor John Hughman and guests discuss Sky/Fox, drug developments and cognitive biases in our weekly podcast

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Summit Therapeutics is a small-cap biotech company with two drugs in clinical trials at either end of the new drugs space: a low risk, lower reward antibiotic and a high risk, higher reward Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy cure. Does this make it an ideal biotech investment? Megan Boxall investigates.

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