Why investors should bother with small caps

Should investors be bothered with small company shares and funds? A surprising question to ask you might think. But the viability of investing in smaller companies is anything but a moot point to large US investment banks. A growing number of big investors are giving up on small companies completely, according to a recent survey by the large US investment bank Piper Jaffray. Piper Jaffray concluded that big institutions want big companies with large numbers of shares that they can deal in easily and quickly. Small caps, under £175m in value, no longer fit this bill and with the amoun...