Some of the most popular income investment trusts have failed to bounce back from the coronavirus crash – and experts reckon it could be time to sell them. Merchants Investment Trust is down 39 per cent this year and Murray International is down 25 per cent. Yet the FTSE 100 is down by just 20 … Read more
An ‘aggressive’ deer at an English beauty spot had to be shot dead after it injured a park-goer in an incident believed to have been sparked by a family feeding it carrots. The National Trust says the wild animal had to be put down after it began ‘posing an immediate threat’ to visitors at Knole … Read more
Global funds and trusts have enjoyed a strong run in recent months despite the significant sell-off that hit stock markets around the world in March. Investors in some big name funds took a pounding as markets nosedived, but those who didn’t panic sell have been rewarded for holding their nerve. These big beasts of the … Read more
Terry Smith is one of the shrewdest investors to come out of this country in a long, long time – although he now runs his successful investment operation Fundsmith from the sun-kissed island of Mauritius in the middle of the Indian Ocean rather than the UK (currently enjoying its own bit of sun-kissing). What Smith … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Why trusts hold a stronger hand than other fund forms By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 BST, 14 December 2019 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 14 December 2019 It remains to be seen whether Edinburgh Investment Trust’s decision to replace its fund manager in the New Year proves a shrewd … Read more
The much-publicised move by the big banks to cancel their dividends has left investors with mixed emotions and many questions. Like the rest of Britain, savers were shocked by their apparent disinclination to act in the interest of the economy until they were strong-armed by the Bank of England.But the loss of this income will … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Hundreds of NHS workers’ coronavirus swabs have reportedly been flown to Germany because the results are coming back in half the time. Samples passed to Public Health England are believed to be taking up to four days to process but those on the Continent can come back in just two. Northampton General Hospital is understood to have … Read more
DIY investment platform Interactive Investor has revealed its average Isa millionaire account is powered by a much larger weighting towards investment trusts than funds. These bigger accounts have 46 per cent in closed-ended funds on average, with only 7 per cent of their portfolios in their open-ended counterparts. The most widely held trusts are the … Read more
What a week, what a month. Enough to turn many investors’ hair grey (mine included) – with some no doubt wishing that commercial travel to the moon was a) available now; and b) affordable. After all, a month doing nothing but staring out on Tycho Crater, rather than seeing your investment portfolio plunge to new … Read more