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Fri 10 Oct 2008Credit crunch boosts quality of this year's BES offers
IT COULD be frequent calls from their accountant or maybe a flurry of advertisements as they flick through the financial pages of the paper, but over the coming days and weeks, investors may notice that they are being bombarded with invitations to speculate on risky, early-stage companies. Why? Because Business Expansion Scheme (BES) season is upon us.
In the last quarter of each year, the machine behind the scheme whirrs into action as nascent companies in need of finance try to entice investors to part with their money.
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