With over 400 investment trusts available to investors, how do you pick the best one for your clients? Stephen Peters, investment trust analyst at Charles Stanley, offers his tips.
The judging process for the 13th annual Investment Trust of the Year Awards has begun, with the addition of a new judge and award categories.
Direct Property-Europe is top performing sector over first six months of 2011.
The closed-ended structure is well suited to private equity investment says Hamish Mair, manager of the F&C Private Equity Trust.
Ian Sayers, director general of the AIC, has suggested trusts be integrated into the Investment Management Associates' (IMA) open-ended investment company sectors.
Global equity investment trusts are reducing their allocations to the UK market in favour of emerging markets and specialist sectors such as private equity, AIC data shows.
Investment trust managers are optimistic equities will rally in 2011 and 77% expect the FTSE 100 to end the year between 6,000 and 6,500, according an AIC survey.