UPDATE: This trust was merged into BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC) in early 2026.

BlackRock Throgmorton (ticker: THRG) is one of two trusts run by BlackRock that sit in the UK Smaller Companies sector. It has been managed by Dan Whitestone since early 2018 and before that was run by highly regarded Mike Prentis for nearly a decade. Although it shares many holdings with BlackRock Smaller Companies, it invests a little further up the market-cap scale and takes a different approach to gearing by investing up to 30% of its net assets in a portfolio of contracts for difference (CFDs) using a mi...