Trustnet Magazine 64 July 2020 | Page 30

Your portfolio 30 / 31 Laura Miller weighs up the opportunities for tech investors in the AIM index Micro machines AIM and tech always seemed destined to become intertwined. The Alternative Investment Market celebrated its quarter-century in June as a home for fledgling companies seeking investors; its launch year of 1995 also showed smaller tech firms what was possible, introducing consumers to the revolutionary USB, DVD and Sony PlayStation. Tech companies currently make up 15 per cent of AIM listings, with many companies attracted by a lower bar to entry than the London Stock Exchange’s main market and hopes of a British Nasdaq, where investment capital turbo charges growth. TRUSTNET