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Buying biotech, HarbourVest's SVG Capital bid and P2P property loans: PF podcast

This week the team are joined by Winterflood analyst Simon Elliott and Peter Walls, manager of Unicorn Mastertrust to talk through a tumultuous year in biotech, a potential fund takeover and property-focused peer-to-peer.
September 23, 2016

In this week’s podcast deputy personal finance editor Kate Beioley and Emma Agyemang take a look at the offer by global private equity company Harbourvest to buy IC Top 100 fund SVG Capital. The panel debates whether or not investors should take the deal offered or sell out now and asks why private equity funds are trading on such wide discounts.

The turbulent world of biotech investing is also on the menu. Are the good times over or did the recent crash present a buying opportunity. Take a look, too, at this week's special biotech podcast for more on the health of the sector.

This week team also takes a look at property-focused peer-to-peer lending and breaks down the risks and returns you can expect from this higher-risk form of investing.

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