How investment trusts can use gearing to enhance returns

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

Private equity has grown rapidly in recent years. By 2024, there were more than $6trn in private equity assets, up from $2trn a decade ago, according to data firm Preqin. Venture capital added about $

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

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

“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

Central banks are back in easing mode, but the descent down the interest-rate mountain is proving arduous and slow. The US Federal Reserve lowered US rates by a quarter of a percentage point at this m