Linus Uhlig, Investment Week, 26 February 2025: Christopher Mills and Robert Naylor, the City veterans best known for orchestrating the sale of Hipgnosis Songs to Blackstone last year, have launched Achilles investment company (AIC), a closed-ended strategy looking to take advantage of the discounts within the investment trust sector. Achilles will run a concentrated portfolio […]
By Elliot Gulliver-Needham, Investment Reporter, CityAM, 24 February 2025: The £54m Achilles trust will debut on the London Stock Exchange tomorrow. Achilles Investment Company is set to start trading on the London Stock Exchange tomorrow after raising £54m to make an activist push against struggling investment trusts. The trust, run by City veterans Christopher Mills […]
Investment trust insider on Monks – James Carthew: Why I’m top slicing Monks Our columnist reveals why he is taking profits from one of his largest investment trust holdings, which he views as a less racy version of stablemate Scottish Mortgage. They say that markets climb a wall of worry, and the evidence suggests that […]
By Jennifer Hill, Citywire Investment Trust Insider, 21 February 2025: The curtain has finally fallen on Downing Strategic Micro-Cap (DSM), the UK smaller companies trust that is now worth little over £2m. At a general meeting, 98.3% of shareholders voted to liquidate the portfolio, with just 1.7% voting against.. It is a far cry from […]
Investment trust insider on Achilles – James Carthew: Activist Achilles could pack a powerful punch The new activist trust targeting the alternative assets sectors is not Saba in different form and could be a force for good. It has been so long since we saw a meaningful IPO in the investment trust sector that I […]
By Jennifer Hill, Citywire Investment Trust Insider, 20 February 2025: Herald (HRI), the small-cap technology trust, has urged shareholders to come out in force again amid fears that US activist Saba Capital could win its campaign ‘via the back door’. The £1.3bn trust will hold its triennial continuation vote at its 2025 annual general meeting […]
By Jennifer Hill, Citywire Investment Trust Insider, 20 February 2025: Keystone Positive Change (KPC), one of seven trusts that has defeated Saba Capital’s attempt to oust its board, has scheduled meetings to decide its fate next month. The £165m Baillie Gifford-run impact investment trust has published a circular formally reconvening meetings at which shareholders can […]
Questor on Schroder Asia Total Return – Ignore the markets and disregard the indices, says this stocks winner With an 80pc outperformance rate in the past 10 years, there’s method to the madness Past Questor columns have recommended Schroder AsiaPacific Fund to readers, most recently in February 2023. However, Schroders has another investment trust focused […]
by Jennifer Hill, from interactive investor, 19th February 2025: Consistent outperformance, no matter how small, can add up to big rewards over time. With that in mind, we asked the experts to name their favourite funds that have delivered over multiple time periods.. QuotedData highlights Polar Capital Global Healthcare, the best-performing trust in the biotechnology […]
Questor on Bluefield Solar Income Fund – There’s money to be made waiting for the regulator to fix its problems Predictable revenues and well-financed debt make this steady winner extremely valuable Last week, Questor tipped an infrastructure trust and the next day there was a bid from a Canadian fund for a competing trust at […]
