VCTs return to market

A number of VCTs are preparing to come back to the market in the search of new funds and shareholders, however few look likely to raise significant assets. Hargreaves Lansdown has identified five that are definitely returning, along with one very probable and three likely candidates. The opportunity to investors is inviting Hargreaves' VCT specialist Ben Yearsley believes, with many early stage companies being starved of development capital as former backers have become risk averse in falling markets and a slowing economy. The group believes that after two and a half years of struggl...