Chelverton Asset Management Limited has launched a private investor club. 

The Chelverton Investor Club will make direct investments in private UK companies, and will feed off the firm’s pedigree as a specialist investor in quoted and unquoted UK Small Companies. The club says it will provide members with a number of investment opportunities and - with the vast majority of traditional high street clearing banks still not lending - deliver a much needed new source of funding for SME firms.

David Horner, founder and managing director at Chelverton said: “We have invested more than £45 mil...