Funds and Investment Trusts

To what extent can infrastructure trusts protect you against inflation?

Annual inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index is forecast to hit seven percent this year, so is it…

Is this a buying opportunity for private equity?

A number of listed private equity funds have recently reported impressive results for 2021, yet their share prices have fallen…

Building an income portfolio in a rising rate environment

With central banks beginning to tighten it looks as though this period of easy money is coming to an end,…

How to diversify your portfolio to survive stagflation

It looks like we may be entering a period of stagflation, with higher inflation and slowing economic growth threatening to…

Strong performance from BlackRock World Mining

The natural resources investment trust has benefitted from the increase in commodity prices with the surge in earnings supporting a…

The best British trusts and funds

The UK stock market has been out of favour for years and looks cheap relative to many of its overseas…

How has the investment trust sector held up since the invasion of the Ukraine?

The terrible events in Ukraine and the economic sanctions imposed in response have caused widespread disruption that is being reflected…

Investing during inflation and war

Only two months into the year, we also have a war in Europe, commodities at skyrocketing prices, supply-chain disruptions and…

In the eye of the storm: the investment trusts most exposed to Russia

The crisis in the Ukraine is obviously dreadful for all those caught up in it, yet the retaliatory sanctions imposed…

Earn a seven percent income from these two high yielding trusts

Yields are generally still pretty low right across the board, but there are two investment trusts with recent buy recommendations…