F&C's Peter Hewitt looks at what has driven investment trusts' general trend of long-term outperformance.
Ignis has spun off its property operations into a new standalone unit, Ignis Real Estate.
The managers of the £187m BlackRock Greater Europe investment trust have significantly outperformed their benchmark thanks to an overweight to industrials and an underweight to financials.
J.P. Morgan's Brazil IT is now fully invested, and running with a heavy bias towards the domestic consumer.
The manager of the Bankers investment trust has reduced the portfolio's fixed income holdings in the view the outlook for equity returns is superior.