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Why it could be a great time to invest in RIT Capital Partners

Among the investment trust sector's most storied trusts is RIT Capital Partners (RCP), the big beast of the Association of Investment Companies' (AIC) Flexible Investment sector in which the Rothschild family remains the largest...

25 September 2025
BlackRock American Income: the trust using AI to manage its portfolio

Investment trusts have a history of more than 150 years and over that time, have constantly reinvented themselves to meet investors' needs. The first ever trust, F&C (FCIT), was launched back in 1868 and in the intervening 157...

04 September 2025
How Allianz Technology Trust has beaten the market despite being underweight Nvidia and Microsoft

Once again the big US tech names have been a significant driver of returns in the technology sector and the wider markets in 2025. This has not applied across the board, but certainly the likes of Nvidia (NVDA:NASDAQ) and Microsoft...

21 August 2025
Finsbury Growth & Income versus Temple Bar

Close scrutiny of the AIC's (Association of Investment Companies) UK Equity Income sector shows two trusts with strong retail followings occupying top and bottom spots in the five-year share price total return performance table,...

07 August 2025
Renewed focus from F&C as it looks to navigate turbulent markets

As the oldest investment trust in the world, F&C Investment Trust (FCIT) has seen more than a few market corrections and crises in its time. And despite a tricky macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop, the trust has managed to...

31 July 2025
Dividend heroes: the investment trusts with the longest track records of consistent dividend growth

Rates are starting to come down on cash savings accounts driving income-hungry individuals back into equities and bonds in search of better yields at a time when tariffs and volatile geopolitics are expected to keep inflation high....

10 July 2025
How capital preservation funds have fared in 2025

In December 2024, with the risks for equity markets piling up in our minds, Shares put the spotlight on capital preservation funds. As it turns out, stocks are higher now than they were then, but obviously that does not tell the...

26 June 2025
How to analyse investment trust discounts

Discounts to the value of assets held, and more rarely premiums, are par for the course when it comes to investment trusts. These are best understood as the gap between the share price and the net asset value (NAV). For example, a...

29 May 2025
Revealed: the trusts which did best through tariff turbulence

The period since 'Liberation Day' ? when the Trump administration announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs ? has been extremely volatile and ultimately negative for financial markets. This is reflected in the average performance of...

01 May 2025
Discover high-yielding share-focused investment trusts

When markets are volatile and the value of your portfolio is moving around on a day-to-day basis there can be some comfort to take from investments which offer a steady stream of income. The problem is, dividends can sometimes cut...

24 April 2025
How investment trusts can use gearing to enhance returns

This article looks at investment trusts and gearing, specifically the ability of trust managers to borrow money to invest. With the help of industry body the Association of Investment Companies, we have crunched some data on...

10 April 2025
Why Alliance Witan is well positioned to outperform

A big takeaway from 2024 was the big uptick in investment trust consolidation. It was a record year for mergers in the sector and the landmark deal was the combination between Alliance Trust and Witan to form Alliance Witan (ALW)....

27 March 2025
Revealed: the best performing investment trusts so far in 2025

So far 2025 is shaping up to be an unpredictable and difficult year for investors, but for one part of the financial markets there has been some positivity.Last October, investment trusts were languishing at an average discount to...

20 March 2025
Can investors rely on high-yield trusts to deliver on their promise?

With inflation eating away at investors' income, high-yield trusts can look very appealing. However, the big question investors should ask before committing themselves is just how sustainable are the dividend streams?In this...

18 August 2022
How BlackRock World Mining outperforms by using all the tools at its disposal

The mining sector has had a wild 2022 to date. It started strongly, supported by pent-up demand from the pandemic, with the invasion of Ukraine affecting the supply of key commodities and helping to drive prices even higher.More...

11 August 2022
Preparing for a wave of value write-downs in the private equity trust universe

Private equity investors have been put on warning after press reports last month that privately-owned BNPL (buy now, pay later) specialist Klarna was seeking to raise fresh capital at a steep discount to its previous valuation.This...

30 June 2022

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