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If you’ve ever put cash into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), it is likely to have been a passive investment: a fund that tracks a particular stockmarket index up and down, rather than actively trying t

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

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

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

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