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Alternatives, gearing and the ability to play the premium/discount are three reasons to consider trusts according to Andrew Summers, head of collectives and fund research at Investec Wealth & Investment

Lindsell Train’s unusual take on key man risk

What benefits do investment trusts offer investors that ETFs do not?

Fund buyers are taking profits in frontier markets after the recent reshuffle of constituents and a strong run of performance.

Investors have been warned against buying into Chinese tracker funds in the near term as growing interest prompts some groups to close products to new investment.

INVESTMENT TRUSTS

Hargreave Hale is seeking to raise £20m for its VCT range from new and existing investors.

Investors should avoid income-paying trusts after the sector moved to trade on a premium for the first time since the financial crisis, analysts have warned, amid growing expectations interest rates could rise this year.

Aggressive activist investors can be good for trusts - up to a point.

Infrastructure trusts could face ‘haircuts' to NAV if rates rise and inflation assumptions are revised down, analysts have warned.