Investment Trusts

AIC director general Ian Sayers discusses how the investment trust industry has coped with the financial crisis and regulatory pressures

The £1.9bn Foreign & Colonial investment trust has brought management of its Japan mandate back in-house to F&C after removing Goldman Sachs.

Baker Steel Capital Management is to rename and list its Genus Capital natural resources fund in London next month.

The investment trust sector could suffer if Anthony Bolton fails to make a success of his new Fidelity China Special Situations vehicle, securities broker Winterflood has warned.

Fidelity European Values has attributed the company's underperformance to its defensive stance last year.

F&C's Mike Woodward says investment trusts can help higher earners caught in the new 50% tax bracket safeguard their wealth

Peter Pearson Lund, chief executive of Rathbones Unit Trust Management, says he would go "straight back into markets" now given the outlook for them, if he were not retiring from the City after 40 years at the end of this month.

Mark Barnett's £489.25m Perpetual Income & Growth Investment Trust (PIGIT) is to issue B shares allowing distributions to avoid income tax charges.

Premier's Nigel Sidebottom believes investment company NAVs are still trading outside their normal discount range despite significant narrowing last year.

Property research note says managers will need to take more active stance to generate returns into 2010