UPDATE: This trust was delisted in June 2026, with shareholders offered a cash exit or rollover into an open-ended fund.
Diverse Income Trust (ticker: DIVI) is a UK equity income trust run by the respected team of Gervais Williams and Martin Turner at Premier Miton. From its launch in April 2011 to the end of May 2022, it returned 228% on a NAV total return basis versus around 90% for the UK market. It has a diversified portfolio of around 130 positions but has been able to outperform both the market and most of its sector rivals by having over half its portfolio in smaller companies. Diverse...
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In this week’s extended edition of the Weekly Investment Trust Podcast, Jonathan Davis, editor of the Investment Trusts Handbook, speaks to Andrew McHattie, editor of the Investment Trusts Newsletter. You can also hear the final five short interviews from this year’s AIC Investment Trust Showcase event. The first four of this series of nine interviews were featured in last week’s podcast and the bonus edition released last Tuesday.
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Jonathan Davis The Q and A with Max King, the former investment trust manager and analyst at Investec, now drawing on his long experience to write for Money Week and the Investment Trusts Handbook, is now available. I have also written up my notes on a meeting with Gervais Williams, manager of the Diverse Income Trust and other small and midcap funds at Premier Miton. The audio recording will be available shortly. Meanwhile Stuart Watson this week takes an in-depth look at Terry Smith's Fundsmith Equity Fund. You can read some of my other notes below.
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Gervais Williams has been manager of the Diverse Income Trust (ticker: DIVI) since 2011 and also manages a number of small and midcap funds for Premier Miton, the boutique fund management firm. Before that he spent 17 years managing small cap funds for Gartmore. He started working in the City in 1985 and has published three books on the changing nature of the UK equity market, globalisation and the rise of AIM.
Why the interest in this trust? One good reason is that Gervais Williams is an experienced and respected manager of small and midcap funds, so his thoughts on the market and individual...
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