Unicorn AIM VCT is the largest AIM VCT, with net assets of £178.9 million (March 2026). It invests predominantly in AIM stocks: a blend of more mature cash-generative companies and earlier-stage businesses across a variety of sectors. The VCT also occasionally invests in unquoted companies.
Unicorn Asset Management Ltd ("Unicorn") is a specialist fund manager with a bias towards smaller companies. Lead fund manager Chris Hutchinson joined Unicorn in 2005 and has more than 25 years' experience covering UK small and mid-sized equities. Alongside this VCT, he is supported by an investment team of seven responsible for Unicorn's fund range and AIM IHT service.
Unicorn is independently owned and managed, with over 50% of its equity held by directors, managers and family members. The firm has over £660 million under management (December 2025), including more than £250 million invested in AIM-quoted companies, allowing it to continue supporting portfolio businesses even after they're no longer VCT eligible, a potential advantage as a partner to investee companies.
Source: Unicorn Asset Management AIM VCT Fund Information as at 31 June 2026.
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Contact the team →Discrete Calendar Year Performance Table |
YTD |
2025 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicorn AIM VCT** |
-0.9 |
17.7 |
-3.9 |
-3.2 |
-24.5 |
20.1 |
21.5 |
FTSE AIM All-Share |
0.5 |
8.5 |
-3.9 |
-6.4 |
-30.7 |
6.1 |
21.8 |
Source: Unicorn Asset Management, FE Analytics (mid-mid, total return) 31 July 2026, * Year to date performance to 31 July 2026, **VCT performance based on NAV as at 31 July 2026. Past performance is not a guide to future performance, performance is based on returns net of fees. Your capital is at risk, the value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up. Investors may not get back the amount of their original investment. A key objective of the Income Funds is to provide income, therefore, some or all of the annual management charge is taken from capital rather than income. This can reduce the potential for capital growth.
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