“Don’t buy the index – buy the stocks”: how Judith MacKenzie of Downing invests on AIM

Описание: The Downing AIM Estate Planning Service is an Inheritance Tax portfolio aiming to make long-term investments in smaller, often unloved, AIM-quoted businesses available at what Downing considers to be an attractive valuation. We talk to manager Judith MacKenzie about how this process works in practice, how they see the markets at the moment, and what are some examples of their AIM investments. In this interview:

0:00 What is the Downing AIM Estate Planning Service?
1:12 Intro to Judith and Downing Fund Managers
1:43 What sort of AIM companies does the service invest in?
2:21 Importance of cash for those companies
3:24 What gets excluded from the portfolio?
4:14 Recent investments…
5:12 Investing in Cohort plc
6:08 Investing in Volex – cabling manufacturer
6:59 Investing in Ramsdens – “stalwarts of the industry”
7:48 The AIM market vs Downing’s portfolio
9:01 How risky is this AIM portfolio?
9:43 Where are the opportunities on AIM at present?
10:49 Ultimately, why consider investing?

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