meet Andrew Hollingworth with Blackthorn Focus on evening of May 14th in central London. Reading the thread below, I'm not sure it's entirely out of his system. Hear his perspective on stock selection, fund management and yes, research regulation. Apply: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

looking forward to a brilliant dinner on May 14th with Andrew Hollingworth in Covent Garden. Andrew has excellent fund management AND equity research credentials and will be sharing his vision for both along with his investment philosophy and big bets. Apply: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

we get dinner TOMORROW in Covent Garden with fund manager Sean O'Flanagan. A great chance to learn from one of the best fund managers in the City: just in time for a bull market in small caps! Sean is a Top Gun IHT investor. Apply to join us: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

Julia Hoggett LSEG says "absolutely need to... reconnect.. the average investor... with our capital markets" news.sky.com/video/london-s… What has the London Stock Exchange done to nurture the UK private investor's knowledge, skill, competence and capability? Reply below!

good example of the state of UK smallcap markets. Market cap of FIH Group #FIH is £30m. Spread is massive 240p:280p but trade printed at 267p i.e. spread is false. Exchange Market Size (300) not London Stock Exchange stock page i.e. investors have little steer on likely price and size.

next 'meet the expert' lunch runs on June 11th and is set to be a blockbuster. Joining us is Louis Hall, CEO of Cerillion #CER. This is a great chance to meet the leadership of one of the UK's most successful midcaps. Apply for your place here: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

talk from the City's great and good about empowering private investors to play a bigger role in UK markets. Did you try to invest in the Raspberry Pi #RPI IPO? What sort of allocation did you get in the offer? Are you happy with the size of investment you have been able to make?

next expert session: Ben Weaver of Asset Match in August. Ben works at the heart of the UK private equity market. He is thus at the sharp end of one of the most powerful trends in the UK economy as capital moves to private markets. Apply for a place: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

brilliant hearing again from Ben Weaver last night at Fuller's #FSTA pavilionend . Asset Match and the whole 'intermittent market' concept is a fascinating component of the UK capital markets scene. Learn more about Asset Match here: assetmatch.com

join us for dinner with Gervais Williams Shepherd Neame #SHEP Old Doctor Butler's Head on September 25th. If you want to know more about how fund management works or UK smallcap investing, there are few better to hear from. Apply for a place: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

as a collection of dedicated investors, we get lunch next Friday with Mr James Hamilton. If you are interested in the work of a City analyst (perhaps you even would like to be one!) and how they influence the stock market, apply for a place here: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

here is Andrea Rossi, Group CEO of M&G plc #MNG telling Channel 4 that the most important stakeholders in a company are the workers. Is he correct? Are you an M&G stakeholder? youtu.be/-dP-elHpDM4?t=…

on December 5th, we get lunch with Mr James Gibson, CEO, Big Yellow. Sponsored by Hardman & Co we will hear the inside track on running a quoted company: how board decisions are made and Jim's role in creating one of the UK's most successful plcs. Apply: blackthornfocus.com/blackthorn-eve…

Is everyone cool with JD #JD $JD.L trading statement this morning: ticker.app/lse/JD./rns/20… Guided PBT range moves from 'at the lower end of ... £955-1035m' to 'between £915m and £935m' but headline is 'Robust trading performance in a challenging market'.

most free-to-consumer investor content is dross: a dangerous mirage for those new to the markets and looking to learn. However, the content from JKR Investing (youtube.com/channel/UChsut…) and the Paul Hill/Paul Scott combo (youtube.com/watch?v=ED66hv…) are both brilliant.

always a pleasure dealing with the organiser team behind this new investor event. Great twitterati and some of the investors that BF most respects are scheduled to be there so the value in attending is clear.

your experiences as a shareholder trying to contact IR? JD Sports #JD. this morning: number on RNS gives eight options. None for shareholders. After listening to that for a full minute, go into a queue for switchboard operator. Seven minutes in and still no pickup.

surely this is the big one. If a company IPOs, it loses the ability to freely select its leadership team. Crackers.

"I was specifically recruited by Goldman Sachs' Equity Capital Markets team to lead IPO pitches to Gymshark, Waterstones and Starling Bank following a period of sub-optimal IPO activity."

IG comes out against cash ISAs, arguing not only that the allowance should be cut but they "should be phased out altogether". Would surely bring thousands of elderly into Self Assessment. Your thoughts please Martin Lewis