Peel Hunt Insights

Sir Douglas Flint is currently Chairman of Aberdeen and IP Group. He was Chairman of HSBC from 2010 to 2017 having previously been Group Finance Director. As such he is very well placed to give views on the impact of tariffs and China as well as retail savings and venture investment. We also discuss the merits of a UK infrastructure ISA and the need to address stamp duty.

Jeegar Kakkad is a Director of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) and has been a policy advisor to the Labour party as well as trade bodies including ADS Group and Make UK. We discuss the role of the TBI in helping Governments formulate policies and challenge conventional thinking. The TBI has been vocal in proposing reforms to the UK’s pension system to boost savings and the UK’s ec...

Conor Lawlor is MD at UK Finance, the trade bodywhich represents 300 firms across financial services. This puts him at the heart of discussions on growing the sector and the UK economy with a remit to engage across government and with leading executives in the sector. UK Finance has recently released heavyweight publication that outlines how both public and private markets can support business gro...

Philip Hammond spent almost a decade in the Cabinet, starting at Transport, going on to Defence, Foreign Secretary and finally Chancellor of the Exchequer (2016-2019). He had to manage a coalition Government, austerity, a black hole in Defence spending and the economic & political fallout from the Brexit vote. He is exceptionally well placed to provide insight on how to manage an economy with tigh...

Vince Cable is exceptionally well placed to discuss the growth levers available to the Government, given the funding restrictions during his time as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (2010-2015). He achieved a lot during this time including the development of the British Business Bank, the Business Growth Fund and the Green Investment Bank. In this podcast, we discuss levers t...

In-depth discussion with Chris Kinder, the CEO of the Investor Forum. We discuss the Investor Forum’s role in facilitating collective engagement between investors and companies. The members of the Forum are responsible for over £500bn of investments in UK companies and c23% of the total value of the UK market. We also discuss the recent launch of the Investor and Issuer Forum which aims to enhance...

Nikhil Rathi was appointed Chief Executive of the FCA in 2020 and has been a driving force behind the comprehensive package of reforms to improve capital markets. In this podcast we discuss his recent trip to China alongside the Chancellor, the challenge to drive growth rather than regulate for risk and the scale of regulatory reform. We are joined by Steven Fine (CEO of Peel Hunt) who discusses h...

In-depth discussion with Stephen Welton, the Chair of the British Business Bank. We discuss the BBB’s role in providing capital to businesses and entrepreneurs, both directly and through partners. The BBB has been widening its remit to include the British Growth Partnership (working with pension funds) and the National Wealth Fund. We also discuss the merits of the BBB broadening into listed equit...

James Ashton is CEO of The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA), which represents and champions quoted companies in the UK. In this podcast we discuss the role of the QCA and the importance of supporting the growth of small & midcap companies.

Steve Rigby is Co-CEO of Rigby Group, which is one of the UK’s largest family run businesses with operations across IT services, real estate, airports and hotels. He is also a patron of the Entrepreneur’s network and chair of the Private Business Commission. In this podcast we discuss the current business climate in the UK, risk appetite, access to capital, the importance of incentives, the Mansio...

Jon Prideaux started at IBM & Visa, before becoming an entrepreneur and being a key driver in growing Boku to become a leading payments business with a market cap of c£600m. In this podcast we discuss the benefits and challenges of running a public company. We compare and contrast the UK public markets with the private markets and comparisons with the US market.

Mark Austin has played a central role in the UK’s regulatory reform agenda. Mark is a partner at Latham & Watkins, specialising in capital markets. He advised on the Hill Review, led the Austin Review and is a member of CMIT, the Capital Markets Industry Taskforce. In this podcast we discuss the scale of reform, the timing of changes and the key improvements to ensure UK capital markets functi...

Paul Jourdan was co-founder of Amati Global Investors in 2010 and is currently CEO. In this podcast we discuss the importance of the role of UK capital markets in enabling companies to secure growth capital and democratising share ownership. We talk about M&A, valuations and the re-opening of the IPO market.

Paul Stevens is Head of Quoted Investments at the Business Growth Fund (BGF) was established in 2011 to address a funding gap for SMEs in the UK post the financial crisis. We discuss BGF’s approach to investing, the issues in UK capital markets and the importance of the AIM market in enabling companies to scale.

In-depth discussion with Julia Hoggett (CEO of the LSE) and Charlie Walker (Deputy CEO) on the role of the LSE in Equity Capital Markets and the importance of the Capital Markets International Taskforce (CMIT) in driving change and ensuring that the UK is competitive globally.

William Wright and his team at New Financial are central to rethinking UK capital markets and providing the data to recognise and respond to the issues. In this podcast we discuss the issues in UK capital markets, the drive for pension reform and potential for other measures to improve UK capital markets.

Be Bold – in this podcast we discuss Nick Lyon’s view that government needs to be bold to transform the UK capital markets to drive growth and the economy.

Podcast with Abby Glennie, Deputy Head of Smaller Companies at abrdn. In this podcast In this podcast we discuss a number of the key themes for the UK Small & Midcap market such as valuation, regulatory reform, pension reform, M&A and IPOs. We also discuss Abby & Amanda’s investment process, fund performance, recent additions to the fund and rationale for a number of the key holdings.

Podcast with Alastair King, the next Lord Mayor. In this podcast we discuss the role of Lord Mayor, being a global ambassador for the City and UK financial & professional services and the ability to influence change. Alastair’s theme of ‘Growth Unleashed’ reflects the need for greater risk appetite and increased investment in the UK.

Dan Webster sits down with Charles Hall and Brian Hanratty to discuss the health of the UK IPO market and their latest Peel Hunt IPO Speedometer report. 2024 has so far seen the resumption of IPO activity in both the UK and Europe, although activity has slowed post summer. They talk through the various dynamics driving this and why they are hopeful of a broader re-opening of the UK IPO market in Q...

Charles Hall discusses the latest trends in UK M&A with Michael Nicholson (Head of M&A at Peel Hunt).

Charles Hall and Kallum Pickering welcome Adam Smith to discuss the upcoming UK Budget on 30 October. They discuss Treasury ‘orthodoxy’, the process of setting a budget, fiscal rules and the policy choices facing Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Adam Smith is a Former Chief of Staff to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt (2022-24), opinion columnist for The Daily Telegraph, and author of ‘The Inv...

In this podcast we discuss how the CBI is resuming its place as the voice of business with government & regulators. An important new initiative is the formation of the listed companies group to highlight and address the issues in UK equity markets.