AIM Innovators: A future-proof portfolio for stock pickers
Welcome to the AIM Innovators, a new portfolio from Investors’ Champion which seeks to invest in AIM’s most exciting and fast-growing companies. These may not be financially successful (yet), but we believe there is a place for a well-diversified portfolio which seeks to support the companies that are making a genuinely positive contribution to the planet.
It’s easy to dismiss the returns available on AIM. Journalists and sceptics often do, citing the meagre returns of the AIM All Share over the course of its history when compared to its bigger brother the UK main market and its even larger cousin across the pond, the Nasdaq. And 2021 was a year of plenty for these sceptics: while the FTSE shrugged off an early year blip to end up more than 10%, AIM was flat. But, having risen 20% in 2020, compared to the UK main market’s 15% decline, AIM was bound to have a cooling off. Many…