How to invest in investment trusts

Ed Morse, head of investment trust business development at the F&C Group, provides all the tools you need to invest in these products.

Some of the rhetoric around the forthcoming implementation of the Retail Distribution Review would seem to suggest the majority of IFAs are under-qualified product-floggers who will happily put their clients’ money in any old open-ended fund and churn it back out again at the drop of a golf tee. This is an unfair and outdated view of a group that is arguably better qualified and more professional than ever before. But the fact remains that many advisers continue to focus solely or largely on open-ended funds when seeking investment solutions for their clients, meaning they could be mi...