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Meet the manager: Craig Baker

Manager of Alliance Trust and CIO of WTW.

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Why bigger could be better

David Prosser explores how investors may benefit from the Alliance Witan merger

The Resilient Investor: ICG Enterprise Trust

Colm Walsh of ICG Enterprise Trust and David Stevenson discuss private equity on The Resilient Investor. ICG is the UK's only listed buyout investor in developed markets.

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Alliance and Witan: Better Together

Dean Buckley and Andrew Ross discuss the combination of Alliance Trust and Witan, its benefits, and its impact on shareholders and the investment trust industry.

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General Election: renewable energy investors speak out

What are investment trust managers looking for from the new government?

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General Election: rebuilding Britain’s infrastructure - where to start and how to pay for it?

Investment trust managers’ top priorities are housing, transport and decarbonisation.

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Investment Trust Update | June 2024

Join Mark Colgate for the latest updates on investment trusts, including developments at Home REIT, Baillie Gifford UK Growth, and recent fund manager changes.

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Investment trusts show their true colours

David Prosser compares the performance of investment trusts with their open-ended counterparts.

Richard Stone: uncovering opportunities with investment trusts

Investing Matters podcast, episode 68.

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General election: VCTs call for reforms to encourage investment in high growth businesses

Reforms needed to help bridge the funding gap and ensure greater opportunities for startups in regions outside London and the South East.

Big in Japan: can this rally be sustained or is it running out of steam?

Richard Aston, Masaki Taketsume and Paul ffolkes Davis on whether the Japanese stock market rally can be sustained.

Big in Japan: where are you currently finding opportunities?

A panel of Japan and Japanese Smaller Companies managers discuss where they are currently finding opportunities.

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A new Jerusalem.

22 January 2025

Dividend increases and share buybacks are good news for UK equities according to our analysts - who think those dark Satanic mills could delivery world-beating returns.

Are commodities hot or not?

12 December 2024

We ask what AI and green energy mean for investments in commodities.

Quality will out

5 December 2024

Alternative income trusts offer diversification, but stick to high quality.

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Saba defeated again in Henderson Opportunities vote

Saba loses fourth vote as shareholders in Henderson Opportunities vote against activist investor Boaz Weinstein's bid to oust the board.
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Henderson Opportunities wins but wind up still looms

Henderson Opportunities is the latest trust to announce that it has successfully fought off the attack by Saba. In this trust’s case, the voting was 65.36% against Saba’s proposals. Just 284,248 shares or 0.72% of the trust’s shares in issue were voted alongside Saba. The turnout was 73.4%, with 28,985,426 of 39,491,875 shares voting. On […]
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VH Global Energy Infrastructure monitoring impact of tariffs on Mexico

VH Global Energy Infrastructure has issued a statement on the impact of tariffs on its Brownsville fuel terminals in Texas. The Brownsville plant imports oil slurry from Mexico and refines that into a useful product. I wrote this up this morning, but the company said that I misunderstood the announcement, so I’m happy to put […]
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JPMorgan EMEA beats benchmark but still overshadowed by events in Russia

JPMorgan Emerging Europe Middle East and Africa has published results covering the 12 months ended 31 October 2024. Pleasingly, the trust beat its benchmark (S&P Emerging Europe, Middle East & Africa) by 1.7 percentage points, returning 13.6% on NAV to the index’s 11.9%. However, the share price continued its usual volatile and unpredictable path and […]
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2025 – MGCI, BNKR, SRE, GPE

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 February 2025: M&G Credit Income (MGCI) is convening a meeting on 27 February to approve the issue of up to 31,002,226 shares (20% of its issued share capital). The company has already issued 9.6m shares since its AGM in 2024 and was running out of room to issue more. [It […]

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure

4 February 2025

CORD's strong share price rally reflects continued improvement of strong fundamentals.

Schroder Japan Trust

3 February 2025

SJG has outperformed the index in Masaki's first five years in charge.

Apax Global Alpha

31 January 2025

AGA passed inflexion point with deal activity rising.

Edinburgh Worldwide

31 January 2025

QuotedData's Weekly News Show - Douglas Brodie from Edinburgh Worldwide.

Baillie Gifford European Growth

30 January 2025

Kepler Trust Intelligence: New Research.

Premier Miton Global Renewables Trust Plc - Portfolio Update

04/02/2025 - 13:10

Premier Miton Global Renewables

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Premier Miton Global Renewables Trust Plc - Portfolio Update

04/02/2025 - 13:10

Premier Miton Global Renewables

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Result of Meeting

04/02/2025 - 13:30

Henderson Opportunities Trust PLC

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Director/PDMR Shareholding

04/02/2025 - 13:30

F&C Investment Trust PLC

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Share Buyback

04/02/2025 - 13:20

Geiger Counter Ltd

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