Tap into trusts to profit from private equity

If I told you that “I own an asset that pays like stocks but is stable like bonds”, you “would probably think I was… a fool”, says Nir Kaissar on Bloomberg. Yet many of the world’s “most sophisticated

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

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

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man

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