Hawksmoor's Scott: My top three healthcare investment trusts

Richard Scott, chief investment officer of Hawksmoor, is backing healthcare as a sector to outperform and has added three preferred names to his multi-manager funds.

Thanks to advances such as the lower cost of complex procedures such as human genome sequencing and the use of ‘big data' to map patterns and trend, healthcare is a fast-developing area, Scott explained. "You have got low growth, strong demand, an ageing population, and increasing wealth for healthcare in emerging markets. The two things people like to spend money on are food, and their health and wellbeing. "We also have the ability to do things in a way we could never do in the past. We are able to analyse lots of data to spot patterns and trends, characterise lifestyles, compare ph...