AIMing high

John Monaghan, Origen In the ultra competitive sectors of UK All Companies and UK Smaller Companies many managers have been searching high and low for stocks that will drive their returns higher, in an attempt to separate them from their peers. In order to achieve this, several have been allocating funds to those companies quoted on the FTSE AIM market. While we have been conducting our research we have seen varying levels of exposure, but what exactly is AIM and what type of companies choose to quote their shares on it? AIM was launched in 1995 and since then over 2,500 companies hav...