Assets in the small cap veteran Paul Jourdan's Amati UK Listed Smaller Companies fund have dipped from over £1bn to £619m over a year, but he remains bullish on tech and asset managers.

Alex Rodman, winger for Bristol Rovers and director of Sterling James Wealth Management, co-founded the firm four and a half years ago to provide footballers with the financial advice.

First Eagle’s Bill Hench said private equity buyouts can be a foe to the small-cap investor, even if a premium is paid for shares.

Ben Mackie, fund manager at Hawksmoor Investment Management, discusses why the firm decided to sell out of real assets and which funds it sold. He also reveals what the firm held onto and why, including private equity trusts.

JM Finn chief executive Hugo Bedford says that growing consolidation in the UK wealth management space has sprung up opportunities to poach staff from competitors. He noted that JM Finn had received more enquiries recently from rivals than it had in the past decade.

Citywire Wealth Manager's Ross Miller welcomes Charlie White-Thomson, CEO of Saxo UK to the Citywire studio. They discuss how the new generation of investors must adapt to a new paradigm, the race to the bottom in fees (is there such things as a free lunch?), and how a decade-long Goldilocks period has shaped investors' attitude to risk.

Citywire AA-rated Troy Trojan manager Sebastian Lyon said that he reduced his stake in Microsoft and Alphabet over the summer, as he believes market optimism is too high. This was before the tech giants announced that sales had slowed in Q3.

The fund manager also said he is ‘battening down the hatches’ and buying short-dated government bonds. Another defensive play in the fund has been to hold a large position in gold.

Abrdn’s Harry Nimmo, who is retiring at the end of the year, has seen a lot in a fund management career spanning nearly 40 years. Something he finds particularly disturbing is the emergence of short-sellers, which he says robs companies of the ability to turn things around.

Oli Creasey, head of property research at Quilter Cheviot, speaks about contagion in open-ended UK property funds, after three major strategies gated last week on the back of pension outflows.

Creasey speaks about where there are some opportunities in the sector, and why some REIts are down 40% this year.

Rathbone Investment Management co-CIO Ed Smith talks about asset allocation under fiercely volatile conditions, why short-dated US T-Bills are a 'free lunch' for cash-heavy investors, and why mortgage pain could cause a 20% fall in UK property prices.