Video special: How have investment trusts changed over the past 25 years?

A look back at their evolution since 1995

Investment trusts have undergone countless sea changes in the quarter of a century since Investment Week launched.

One of them, certainly, is in the mix of asset types they hold - with some of the dominant types today not figuring at all in 1995. We worked with the AIC - and our agency communications partner Teamspirit - to examine the changes in this video, showing the cumulative holdings of each core asset type for the IT sector from 1995 to 2020. As you would expect, equities dominate throughout the period, almost tripling in value from £42bn in 1995 to £121bn. Second is Alternative Assets, which enjoyed exponential growth from £1.2bn to £80.6bn by the end of 2019. The animation also show...