Top 10 Investment Trusts
By Value
Bad news about global conflict is good news for shares in this investment trust, which is benefiting from Europe's rush to re-arm with new technology led by space-tech. While doubts remain about where Britain will find the money to honour outgoing...
Energy is the economy and investors aiming to build a diversified portfolio of shares in the present and future should consider some exposure to this sector. Sad to say, violent conflicts and recent restrictions on the supply of oil and liquefied...
More than 80% of international trade by volume and 70% by value is transported by sea. Few investors can participate directly in shipping but investment trusts make it convenient and cost-effective to do so. Step forward Tufton Assets (stock market...
More than a decade after Britain voted to leave the European Union, many investors should consider Continental economies’ scope to deliver capital growth and income. France, Germany and Switzerland are home to many world-leading businesses, ranging...
A fundamental aim of stock market investment is to own a stake in tomorrow's economy. To borrow an analogue age analogy, yesterday’s river grinds no flour. So some exposure to new technology is necessary, even if - like me - your cerebral software...
Even the best shares go through periods of bad performance which can provide good buying opportunities. That’s what happened when stock market setbacks gave me a second chance to get onboard a brilliant investment trust I really should have bought...
Double-digit income with dividends rising rapidly were the principal attractions of Greencoat UK Wind (stock market ticker: UKW) when I invested and this fund is still yielding over 9.8% at pixel time, as I write this. Despite already yielding more...
If emerging markets aren’t exciting enough for you, how about some professionally-managed exposure to even newer and/or smaller so-called ‘frontier markets’? Better still, whereas investors in emerging markets and - even less developed and more...
Nobody ever forgets their first ten-bagger or share whose price soared 10 times or more after we bought. That’s why the fund now known as JPMorgan India Growth and Income (stock market ticker: JIGI) will always be close to my wallet...
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner but I am proud to have played a tiny part in helping to keep 21 million tonnes of sewage out of the Thames via my shareholding in International Public Partnerships (INPP). This £2.8 billion fund’s top asset is...
