SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: Income is still essential

SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: All change at £200 investment fund, but income is still essential By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 13 February 2021 It has been all change at Securities Trust of Scotland, at £200million investment fund with a global income mandate.  Since … Read more

Which investment trusts should you trust to grow your cash?

As any market-watcher knows, investment trusts have enjoyed a good run recently. Listed on the stock exchange and run by professional managers, they spread your money across dozens of different companies. The past year has seen trusts grow in popularity – with some doubling investors’ money within a year. Listed on the stock exchange and … Read more

Child Trust Fund proposals offer hope to families of disabled children

The parents of as many as four in five disabled children currently unable to access their Child Trust Fund savings may no longer have to go to court to get access to the money after a way of avoiding the costly and time-consuming process was greenlit by savings providers. A majority of Child Trust Fund … Read more

LAW DEBENTURE: The dividends keep flowing at £773m trust

LAW DEBENTURE: The dividends keep flowing at £773m investment trust By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16 GMT, 6 February 2021 Investment trust Law Debenture will soon announce the final quarterly dividend payment to shareholders for its 2020 financial year.  Although it refuses to reveal … Read more

Charitable trust boosts Mail Force’s laptops-for-children drive with £500k pledge 

A wonderful £500,000 was pledged yesterday by a charitable trust that said: ‘We cannot stand by and let a generation slip through the net.’ The registered charity, set up to serve the needs of society, preferred to remain anonymous. But its generous donation will start work straight away helping the Daily Mail’s crusade to get … Read more

BRUNNER INVESTMENT TRUST: One-stop shop

BRUNNER INVESTMENT TRUST: One-stop shop for growth…and dividends By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 30 January 2021 Investment trust Brunner is a global fund with a mission to deliver long-term income and capital growth for shareholders.  Unlike its more high-profile global rival Scottish Mortgage, … Read more

Cardiff aim to launch £2m Emiliano Sala trust by end of January

Two years on from his tragic death, Cardiff FINALLY act over Emiliano Sala with the club aiming to launch a £2m trust fund in the name of the striker who was killed when the plane carrying him from Nantes crashed into the Channel It is two years next week since Emiliano Sala was killed on … Read more

National Trust invites children to ‘reverse-mentor’ its staff on colonialism

The National Trust has come under fire after it was revealed staff and volunteers have been ‘reverse-mentored’ by primary school children to ensure they can explain the ties of their properties to the slave trade and British empire. ‘Child advisory boards’ have been set up to ‘assist’ the trust’s staff with their training to ‘ensure … Read more

Angry villagers slam National Trust after postcode blunder led motorists to flood village

Angry residents have slammed the National Trust after a post code blunder caused hundreds of motorists to flood into their upmarket village during the Coronavirus pandemic. Villagers next to historic Belton House say visitors to a lights trail at the Grade I listed Georgian estate drove up their driveways and were even knocking on doors … Read more

Covid lockdown England: Visitors deluge National Trust site Box Hill

Walkers and cyclists descended on a National Trust beauty spot in Surrey this afternoon as the car park overflowed amid concerns the area is becoming overcrowded during the third national lockdown. Cars lined the road outside Box Hill in the North Downs as families, couples and dog walkers made the most of a day off, … Read more