VCT reviews

Review: Foresight 4 VCT

3 August 2017

Foresight 4 VCT plc has a long history of takeovers, mergers and diverse investment mandates. Look beyond this, however, and the underlying story is a good one, with potentially promising prospects. The Foresight 4 VCT has ...

Review: Unicorn AIM VCT

25 July 2017

This is the largest AIM VCT, with assets worth over £162 million across 95 investments.The last top-up offer reached capacity within two weeks. A new offer to raise up to £50 million is now open. Wealth ...

Review: Octopus AIM VCT and Octopus AIM VCT 2

19 June 2017

NEW OFFER: this is a £30 million fund raise for the Octopus AIM VCT and Octopus AIM VCT 2 (together the Octopus AIM VCTs). Investors will have exposure to a well-established portfolio of maturing and profitable ...

Review: Elderstreet VCT

16 June 2017

Launched in 1998, Elderstreet VCT is a generalist VCT that provides development and growth capital and largely invests in unquoted companies but also offers investors some exposure to AIM. This is a £20 million top up ...

Review: Pembroke VCT

2 May 2017

Pembroke VCT originally launched in 2013, with the B shares first raising money in 2014 and subsequently in 2016. This offer seeks to increase the size of that investment portfolio by raising another £15 million with ...

Review: Downing FOUR Generalist VCT

28 March 2017

Downing FOUR VCT plc is creating two new share classes for subscription in the 2016/17 tax year – Generalist, and Healthcare.Downing FOUR was created in 2015 by merging four other VCTs that were managed or advised ...

Share offer latest - Octopus Titan VCT

3 March 2017

Octopus Titan VCT's 2016/17 subscription offer seeks to raise £70 million for UK's largest venture capital trust, which has assets of approximately £309 million at the time of writing. The VCT launched in 2007 and has ...

Review - Foresight VCT

14 February 2017

This is a top up to the longstanding Foresight VCT, raising £20 million with an over-allotment of £20 million. This is is a generalist evergreen VCT. Assuming full subscription this VCT will have assets of approximately ...

Three VCTs about to run out

31 January 2017

Just this week, I received an email from Bill Nixon, manager of the Maven VCTs. He warned me his VCT is just about to reach capacity for this year. He’s not the first nor, I expect, ...

Review - Downing FOUR VCT - Healthcare

17 January 2017

This new share class for the longstanding Downing Four VCT is looking to raise £10 million (with a further over-allotment of £10m) to invest in early-stage healthcare, biotechnology and life sciences businesses. Downing is the overall ...