The cover feature in this month’s edition of Trustnet Magazine is about the investment activities you should really leave to the experts. You may already be a sensible investor who has never even considered dabbling in derivatives or levering up to boost returns. If so, you are one of the lucky ones, as plenty of others have either underperformed, lost money or faced financial ruin after failing in areas they shouldn’t have gone near in the first place. Click here to see which investment strategies should come with a health warning.
Elsewhere in this issue, Hannah Smith reveals what is behind a flurry of activity by investment trust boards and Iona Bain finds out there has been a wide disparity of outcomes in closed-ended funds holding unquoted assets. Speaking of wide disparities, in this month’s sector focus Cherry Reynard finds that IT UK All Companies trusts with small- and mid-cap exposure have surged since December’s general election, while those focused on multinational large caps have trailed in their wake.
In the usual columns, John Blowers evaluates the model portfolios offered by the major platforms, TB Amati UK Smaller Companies’ David Stevenson names three stocks he is using to benefit from the growing appetite for alternative assets and Albemarle’s Charlie Parker reveals which fund he is backing to deliver property-like returns without the liquidity risk.
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