Investment Trusts

David Barron, head of investment trusts at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, responds to concerns over the liquidity of closed-ended products.

F&C Investments has scrapped plans to launch a US investment trust after it failed to reach its £100m fundraising target.

Investment Week's rising star Kyle Caldwell has scooped a prestigious award for his coverage of the investment trust industry.

Primary Health Properties (PHP) has become the first UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) to launch a retail bond.

John Kennedy has deleveraged his £588m Scottish investment trust, converting its entire gearing component into cash equivalents to shield the portfolio against a further market set-back.

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Threadneedle's Simon Brazier is to take over management of the £25m UK Select trust as the group lays out its plans for expansion into the investment trust space.

The Foreign & Colonial investment trust is to move to quarterly dividend payments and raise its total dividend for 2012 by 20%, as part of an overhaul of its distribution policy.

Lindsell Train co-founder Nick Train has argued investors should not try to make money in equities by playing market cycles.

Sam Vecht, head of BlackRock's emerging Europe equity team, has upped his weighting to Russia by 15% in recent months, on the view the country's equity market could significantly re-rate.