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Venture capital trusts explained

Everything you need to know about high risk, tax efficient investing in small UK companies from our VCT experts

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VCTs are specialist, high-risk investments. It’s important to give serious consideration as to whether they are right for you before you invest. That’s why our VCT experts wrote this in-depth guide to help you see if VCTs investments could help you work towards your investment goals, including insights such as: