Invest in small and medium-sized company stocks. Whether you invest directly in shares or indirectly through a unit or investment trust, the message is clear — think small to achieve big returns. It’s in the figuresThe FTSE small-cap index and the FTSE 250 index of mid-cap stocks have beaten the FTSE 100 index of large-cap stocks over the past one, three, five and ten years. In the five years to August the FTSE 100 produced a return of 54.9 per cent. However, the FTSE mid-cap index returned 99.3 per cent and the small-cap index returned 114.6…

Source: The Times August 11, 2017 23:03 UTC