The private equity puzzle

The real-estate investment trust (Reit) segment of the UK equity market has been on life support for much of the past five years and it’s easy to understand why investors have decided to give the sect

Since listing in 2013 Greencoat UK Wind (LSE: UKW) has grown to become one of the UK’s largest investment trusts. At one point, its net asset value (NAV) reached almost £4bn. Yet the trust has generat

In 2026, the FTSE 100 index is likely to pass 10,000 for the first time thanks to the onward march of corporate earnings around the globe. UK investors have been remarkably reluctant to invest despite

They say health is wealth, but healthcare investors might disagree. The sector has had a tough time over the past few years. Policy noise in the US has been a major headwind recently, but even before

Why do two ostensibly similar real estate investment trusts (Reits) trade at such different valuations? AEW UK Reit (LSE: AEWU), with net assets of £174m, invests in “UK commercial property assets in

“British gilts are the most undervalued financial asset on the planet,” says Ambrose-Evans Pritchard in The Telegraph. The UK ten-year gilt yields a decent 4.7%. Yet investors prefer to pile into bitc