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Charter European is just one of a select band of trusts to have reached the age of 100. But that doe...

Charter European is just one of a select band of trusts to have reached the age of 100. But that does not mean that it is stuck in the past. A new name, a more concentrated portfolio and a new benchmark have kept the trust fresh. The original Charter Trust & Agency was set up by Robert Henry Benson, a financier heavily into railway and mining development in Southern Africa. The trust has been through several name changes and fund management groups in the last century, and a shift towards continental Europe. When Mark Lovett took over Charter European in 2003, he set about reviewing how ...