Of the 12 companies selected for the 2014 Bargain Shares Portfolio, shares in five produced a positive return but this could not make up for the hefty losses on the losers. The two laggards, Aim-traded Chinese retailers Naibu (NBU) and Camkids (CAMK), contributed the majority of the negative return.
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