Investment Trusts

Invesco Perpetual's head of investment Neil Woodford has begun building new positions in a number of businesses across his £25bn fund range over the past year.

Troy's Sebastian Lyon, manager of the £600m Personal Assets investment trust, has warned equity and bond valuations are approaching pre-crisis peaks, and bullish investors could get caught out if they fail to brace their portfolios for a market correction....

Andrew Graham, manager of the Martin Currie Pacific trust, argues the trend for earnings downgrades must reverse before stock markets can go higher.

A look at what might be on the regulatory horizon for wealth managers was a story which caught our readers' attention this week.

ASIA

Lindsell Train co-founder Nick Train has admitted to being "flabbergasted" by a recent spell of outperformance in his £355m Finsbury Growth & Income trust.

The board of the Schroder Oriental Income investment trust, managed by Asian specialist Matthew Dobbs, is undertaking a £100m C-share issue to meet investor demand.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has named the top 20 performing and most consistent investment companies over the past decade.

F&C Investments' Jeremy Tigue has taken UK exposure in his £2.6bn Foreign & Colonial investment trust to a 30-year low on fears the UK is lagging behind other markets in the dividend stakes.

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