Learn from fund flops of the past

The last 50 years have been kind to investors in real terms. Everything made money: equities, bonds, property and gold. All investors had to remember was not to buy high and sell low. But that hasn’t

Last year, Henderson European Focus Trust and Henderson EuroTrust merged to form Henderson European Trust (LSE: HET), with £680m of assets (after significant cash exits) and a well-regarded management

Last year saw record consolidation and corporate action in the investment trust sector. If the past seven months are anything to go by, 2025 will be a year of note, as well. At the beginning of the ye

I wasn’t at MoneyWeek when our portfolio of investment trusts was set up in 2012, but the editor tells a funny anecdote. We are famously contrarian, so all six of the trusts originally chosen were “va

Trade tariffs, the Russia-Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine crises are all issues F&C’s Paul Niven takes in his stride

UK equities are having their time in the sun. The FTSE 100 recently hit an all-time high of 9,000, driven by a broad recovery in equity prices. To put it another way, the rally wasn’t just driven by a