UPDATE: In early 2026, BlackRock Smaller Companies merged with its sister fund, BlackRock Throgmorton. It has switched to paying quarterly dividends and will offer triennial, performance-related 100% tender offers.
BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC) dates back to 1906 and has long been a UK small-cap specialist. It was run by 3i for many years before its manager, Mike Prentis, and its management contract was moved to Merrill Lynch in 2005 after 3i decided to stop managing public equity funds. Merrill Lynch Investment Management soon became part of BlackRock and Prentis went on to deliver 16 ...
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Jonathan Davis Stuart Watson's fund profile this weekend looks in depth at Tritax Big Box, another component of our income portfolio and one of the most successful specialist property trusts that have joined the sector in recent years. My notes this week are a fairly random collection while the latest market review video will be published on Monday morning.
Comparative trust performance One of the regular and useful calculations that the analysts at Numis perform is to compare the average sector performance of investment trusts against their open-ended fund equivalents. The table below summa...
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