Investment Trusts

The year investment trusts were brought back down to earth

Investec Wealth and Investment CIO Chris Hills and Schroder UK Mid Cap director Rachel Beagles have joined the board of the Association of Investment Companies.

Looking beyond gold’s weak points

The British Assets trust will be renamed BlackRock Income Strategies if proposals to overhaul the company are approved by shareholders.

Aberdeen Asset Management's head of North American equities Paul Atkinson will be leaving the firm at the end of June.

The investment trusts for 2015 outperformance

Baillie Gifford partner Tom Slater has been promoted to co-manager of Scottish Mortgage, the UK's largest investment trust, alongside James Anderson.

RIT Capital Partners, the £2.3bn investment trust chaired by Lord Rothschild, is to acquire GVO Investment Management - formerly known as SVG Investment Managers.

From fee reductions and discount management, to more board scrutiny. Jeremy Beckwith, director of manager research at Morningstar, analyses the changing story behind investment trusts in 2014.

Canaccord Genuity's latest look at which trust boards and managers have invested in their own funds reveals 46 managers now have personal investments in their portfolios worth more than £1m.