Podcasts presented by Ed Bowsher

Conversations from Africa with Share Radio's Alex Clark and Chris Bishop of Forbes Africa Magazine. This week: the troubles of South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan continue, Zuckerberg makes a first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Guptas pack up and leave.

John Barass and Jason Baxter from the Wealth Management Association to find out more about the launch of their new stock market indices: Conservative, Income, Growth, Balanced, Global Growth. They explain what these indices measure and how you might choose between them.

Welcome to the Business of Sport with Michael Considine. On the show this week. Premier League transfer window spending has breached a billion pounds for the first time. Football finance expert Rob Wilson gives his take on what this psychological barrier means. After the success of the Womens hockey team at the Olympics, what's next for the sport in the UK? Rich Beer, Development Director at England Hockey joins us. And of course Joe Aldridge has Extra Time.

Investment Perspectives teamed up with the FT to talk ‘Serious Money’. On this edition Claer explained venture capital trusts and enterprise investment schemes

"The Investment Trust Show" is brought to you in association with Henderson Global Investors. Each week we explore the main features, factors and developments affecting investment trusts at the moment. This week we're looking at fixed income or investing in various forms of bonds. That's an important topic when bond prices are at record highs. Joining Share Radio's Ed Bowsher in the studio are Alan Borrows. Senior Investment Manager at Seneca Investment Managers, and John Pattullo, Co-Head of Strategic Fixed Income at Henderson.

This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers the fast growing world of alternative finance. In today's show, Ed Bowsher looks at the peer to peer sector in China and, in particular, a scandal where investors ended up lending money to a high risk 'mega-bus' project. The investors probably won't be getting their money back. Ed also looks at risk in peer to peer lending with Neil Faulkner from the 4th way website.

Our regular weekly programme "The Investment Trust Show" is brought to you in association with Henderson Global Investors. Each week we explore the main features, factors and developments impacting on investment trusts. This week we examined how investors can achieve high income from UK stocks, An especially relevant issue when UK interest rates are so low. Ed Bowsher was joined in the studio by David Smith, manager of the Henderson High Income Trust and Simon Crinage, Head of Investment Trusts at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

It is that time of the week where we focus on the small cap sector. This week we have an expert in the field with over 30 years experience. His name is Gervais Williams, he is from Miton Group and he manages a range of funds which aggregate to 1 billion pounds which includes the Miton UK MicroCap fund. He has also written the book "The Future is Small" and he spoke to Juliette Foster in the studio.

This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers peer to peer lending and all other forms of crowdfunding. In today's show, Ed Bowsher looks at Platform Black, a peer to peer lending platform that is starting to do a bit of lending itself, plus he also finds out more about a mobile app that's been described as the 'tinder for crowdfunding’ – Offr.

This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance with Share Radio's Senior Analyst, Ed Bowsher. In this edition: A closer look at a platform which is opening parts of the bond market which have previously been closed off to private investors, that's WiseAlpha and it's CEO Rezaah Ahmad, and whether the base rate cut from the BoE is going to seriously affect the peer to peer lending market.