Three small-cap stocks to shield you from the worst of the market's ups and downs

Ken Wotton of Livingbridge Equity Funds selects three small-cap stocks with proven business model and long-term growth prospects.

Each week, a professional investor tells us where he'd put his money. This week: Ken Wotton of Livingbridge Equity Funds selects three promising Aim-listed shares.

Managing risk is a crucial task for all investors. And with both economic and market volatility making a return in 2018, investors need stocks in their portfolio with the potential to protect them from the worst of the ups and downs.

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Ken Wotton

Ken Wotton is lead manager of Strategic Equity Capital plc and Managing Director, Public Equity at Gresham House and leads the investment team managing public equity investments. Alongside this, he is manager for WS Gresham House UK Micro Cap Fund, WS Gresham House UK Multi Cap Income Fund and manages AIM listed portfolios on behalf of the Baronsmead VCTs. Ken graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG. He was an equity research analyst with Commerzbank and then Evolution Securities prior to spending the past 12 years as a Fund Manager at Livingbridge and now Gresham House specialising in smaller companies.