A solid year for our portfolio

We’re now halfway through the decade that began with Covid, which was succeeded by a surge in the cost of living. Geopolitical turmoil has also buffeted markets in recent years. This year, however, wa

Investors are rightly nervous when a well-regarded fund manager retires. The departure of Bruce Stout from the £1.9bn Murray International (LSE: MYI) in June last year after 20 years was no exception.

More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

Andrew Van Sickle: Peter, your fund is among relatively few investing solely in a collection of investment trusts (ITs). How did you come to set it up? Peter Walls: My background is entirely in the wo

The £2.7bn Monks Investment Trust (LSE: MNKS) sits in the shadow of its £13bn Baillie Gifford-managed stablemate Scottish Mortgage (LSE: SMT). However, it boasts a strong record, it is less concentrat

Last year was a horrible year for the active fund-management industry. Investors have consistently been pulling money from active investment funds over the past decade, but outflows accelerated in 202