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...Estate Income Trust, or Breit, that in November put limits on withdrawals after suffering heavy redemptions....
...The trust pulled together a network of backers to provide the service, including charities such as the Salvation Army and Feeding Britain, supermarket chain Wm Morrison from the private sector and local...
...Funds to look at include the Amati UK Smaller Companies fund and the Standard Life Smaller Companies trust....
...fixed-income holdings....
...In January, 10 companies owned by the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund that Prince Mohammed chairs, filed a civil lawsuit in Canada accusing the former interior ministry official of masterminding...
...His dismissal from the Perpetual Income and Growth Investment trust marks the second investment trust mandate he has lost in four months. More here....
...Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the song royalties closed-ended investment trust, has announced the acquisition of US-based Big Deal....
...● Exane BNP Paribas cut Jupiter Fund Management to from “neutral” “underperform” as part of a European asset management sector review....
...Perpetual emotion Invesco Perpetual Enhanced Income, the £150m investment trust, has resolved its row with fractious fund manager Invesco — securing the lower charges it quite reasonably demanded but having...
...Yasir al-Rumayyan, chief executive of PIF, sits on the boards of Uber and SoftBank....
...Fund management company Evenlode has hired analyst Chris Elliott for its income fund team. Mr Elliott joins from Oxford University Press, where he was a software engineer....
...Shares in Ocado, which have been hit over recent weeks by the pension fund of the John Lewis Partnership and a trust linked to chief executive Tim Steiner selling shares, rose 1.95p to 212.45p....
...Trust me to run your £108bn asset manager, please.”...
...Man Group was marked 1.8 per cent lower at 512p on fears Thursday’s trading statement could reveal weaker fund sales....
...“AB Ports looks the most logical group to convert to Reit status in 2007 as it has virtually no other non-port income....
...In a study by WM Company, which measures investment returns, only eight unit trusts out of 44 beat the FTSE All-Share index over a 20-year period....
...In 2003, according to research by the WM Company, which analyses the performance of Oeics and unit trusts, the median actively managed trust in the Standard & Poor's All Companies sector produced a return...
...Although he has been setting up his own investment fund and hopes the PA will be a client, he agreed to continue running the PIF for a few months....
...He says that very few equity funds beat the indices consistently over even 10 years. Over 20 years, only eight unit trusts out of 44 surveyed by the WM Company beat the FTSE All-Share....
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