Liontrust includes two women in ESG trust board line-up
Board members unveiled and expected timetable for asset manager’s first investment company launch
Investment Trusts
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Nick Train banks on luxury holdings benefitting from UK’s roaring 20s boom
Period of hyper-consumption would be driven by ‘extraordinary trend of wealth creation by new industries’ rather than Covid re-opening trade
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Gresham House Strategic shares skid as board responds to Richard Staveley resignation
Board argues River and Mercantile founding partner was the driver behind trust’s recent ‘significant NAV growth’
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Former Woodford trust initiates first holding since Schroders takeover
Schroder UK Public Private Trust has invested ‘milestone’ stake in cybersecurity company Tessian
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Gresham House served notice on UK smaller companies trust
Gresham House Strategic has struggled to attract assets despite seeing its share price double in the last five years
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Baillie Gifford set for boost from synthetic biology firm Spac listing
Scottish Mortgage and Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust both hold Ginkgo Bioworks which is set to go public in Q3
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Acorn Income questioned for ‘odd timing’ of BMO Gam appointment after Columbia Threadneedle takeover
A change in ownership ‘virtually always leads to some fund manager changes’
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Scottish Mortgage posts best-ever results but warns against short-term ‘elation’
Co-manager Tom Slater says far longer periods are required to assess the strength of investment approach
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Liontrust touts ability to target smaller ‘pure play’ companies with ESG trust
Peter Michaelis and team share details of the new trust ahead of launch next month
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Smithson initiates holding in aviation-themed chicken wing chain
Fundsmith global smaller companies trust slumps against the MSCI World Smid index in Q1
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Chrysalis Investments duo: ‘Baillie Gifford are doing a lot in America and China, but our connections are nearer to home’
After a slow start, the Nick Williamson and Richard Watts-run investment trust is fully formed and flying high
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Scottish Mortgage ploughs £72m into crypto wallet provider
Baillie Gifford ponied up $100m in Blockchain.com’s latest funding round