Jonathan Davis The notebook this week comments on inflation, the outlook for property trusts and some remarkable evidence about the poor performance of pension funds and university endowments since the global financial crisis, which only serves, in my opinion, to enhance the attractions of the best investment trusts. Peter Spiller, the long serving manager of Capital Gearing Trust, expands on the future of the sector in this week's Q and A, and reiterates the equally valid point that investment trusts have no automatic right to exist and a good many are not doing enough to justify their existe...