Jonathan Davis The Q and A with Kartik Kumar, the young manager of the Artemis Alpha trust, was posted earlier this week. Elsewhere Stuart Watson looks at the performance of the three big equity income trusts that changed their manager last year, to get an early idea of how the change is working. My notes on the week concentrate mainly on discounts - how they have moved around and how they look at the moment.
The discount issue Discounts are always an intriguing subject for investment trust investors. Take a look at the next two charts, which are drawn from Winterfloods latest monthly investm...
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It has been a good week for the markets, with equity markets showing good gains despite bond yields edging up and further evidence of investors' love affair with technology stocks continuing, in the shape of IPOs jumping to huge premiums immediately after listing. The pound meanwhile is almost back to its pre-referendum level against the dollar, although that is at least partly due to the general weakness of the US currency. The Bank of England has instructed banks to prepare for negative interest rates, but appears to be shying away from suggesting it will resort to them - the latter, if true...
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