SCOTTISH INVESTMENT TRUST: The manager who ditched consumer stocks and went on the defensive with gold shares as crisis bit By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 22:56 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 10:44 BST, 29 March 2020 Although manager Alasdair McKinnon was relatively quick off the mark in turning the portfolio of … Read more
SECURITIES TRUST OF SCOTLAND: The £220m Scottish fund… scouring the world for stocks By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:07 BST, 13 April 2019 | Updated: 10:31 BST, 15 April 2019 Although you wouldn’t guess from the name, Securities Trust of Scotland is an investment fund that scours the globe for dividend-friendly businesses. … Read more
MONTANARO UK SMALLER COMPANIES: Industry veteran Charles Montanaro seeks to outperform rival Numis By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2020 WHAT IS IT? Run by Charles Montanaro, an industry veteran, its goal is to outperform the Numis Smaller Companies Index. WHAT DOES THE … Read more
INTERNATIONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY TRUST: Biotech trust will prosper, says its doctor By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 23:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 There is no escape from the meltdown in share prices – irrespective of where money is invested. For example, although investment trust International Biotechnology … Read more
FIDELITY SPECIAL VALUES: Looking for ‘unloved companies’ for long-term growth By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 March 2020 | Updated: 22:29 GMT, 20 March 2020 Fidelity Special Values aims to grow investors’ money over the long term by investing in ‘unloved’ companies WHAT IS IT? Founded in 1994, the … Read more
Only one hospital trust in England treated its A&E patients within the NHS time target last year, MailOnline can reveal. Yeovil District Hospital was the only place that managed to process 95 per cent of its patients within four hours of their arrival. Its average for the year was 96.3 per cent. Statistics analysed by this … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
The scale of the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Covid-19 rescue package for Britain’s hard-pressed businesses — big corporations and smaller enterprises — is startling in both its scale and ambition. At its core is a promise to help the bigger corporations survive the crisis with £330 bn of easy credit from the Bank of England that … Read more
RIT CAPITAL PARTNERS: £2.8bn trust grows money over the long term, while preserving initial investments By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 13 March 2020 At £2.8bn, RIT Capital Partners is one of the UK’s largest investment trusts WHAT IS IT? At £2.8billion, RIT Capital … Read more
From a bin called ‘Pete’ to Russian bug spray: National Trust reveals the weirdest jetsam that has washed up on Britain’s beaches as it shines light on the problem of marine pollution The National Trust looks after 780 miles of coastline around the United Kingdom Waste washed up from the sea continues to blight UK beaches, the … Read more