Fund of the week: The Neil Woodford of small caps

This small-cap fund has returned over 80% over the past five years, compared to a 14.1% sector average, by investing in firms with resilient business models and predictable earnings.

There are a small number of elite fund managers who are so good that people buy their funds for exposure to them rather than to their portfolio, says Richard Troue of Hargreaves Lansdown. Harry Nimmo is one of those fund managers. "He is the Neil Woodford of the smaller company world," says Mark Dampier in the Independent.

Over the past five years, Nimmo's Standard Life Investments UK Smaller Companies Trust has returned 80.8% compared to a 14.1% sector average. Earlier this year the fund won the UK Smaller Companies category at the Moneywise Investment Trust Awards for the fourth year in a row.

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