• NEXT EVENT - Friday, 24th October 2025 - Novotel London West

The Auditorium

Please see below the programme for The Auditorium at the London Investor Show.
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10:10am - 11:00am

How to build and manage a successful share portfolio

How to select shares, key ratios for investors, setting goals and measuring success, monitoring portfolio performance
Speaker: to be confirmed

11:30am - 12:15pm

Defusing the bomb: using optimal leverage to avoid blowing up your account

In this trading workshop, Rob Carver explains how you learn to correctly size positions and calculate leverage - maximising your chances of becoming a profitable trader over the long run.

Speaker: Rob Carver


12:30pm - 1:20pm

Holly Mead

Lunchtime Summit: "What would a £74 billion cash injection do to UK capital markets? And how would this impact your portfolio?" (Panel Session)

"What would a £74 billion cash injection do to UK capital markets? And how would this impact private investors?" UK bank accounts have an estimated £430 billion of UK consumer savings in them. According to a report from Barclays* after allowing for financial prudence, there is estimated £74 bn that could be directed into capital markets. The panel discuss what this would mean, and the impact it could have on UK investors.

Chaired by James Baxter-Derrington (The Telegraph) with Holly Mead, Alec Beasley (Investa) and Paul Williams (Solomon Global)

* Report published September 2024, titled "Are there UK savers who could become investors that grow the UK economy?"

1:30pm - 3:30pm

The Investment Trust Forum

Welcome to the Investment Trust Forum, sponsored by AIC – a dedicated 2-hour session designed to give you as much information as you need about whether to consider adding investment trusts to your portfolio. Hosted by Richard Stone, Chief Executive of the Association of Investment Companies, tbc and joined by Toby Finden-Crofts, Managing Director of Research in Finance, the Investment Trust Forum offers investors the chance to hear from renowned fund managers; take part in a panel discussion about global investment opportunities and to learn more about how to access investment trusts through a short seminar by AIC. Investment Trusts have long been feted as an ideal vehicle for investors seeking to diversify their portfolio and, consequently, to minimise risk.

Toby Finden-Crofts, CEO of Research in Finance.


3:35pm - 4:55pm

Title to be Confirmed

Speaker: James Baxter-Derrington, Investment Editor, The Telegraph