Ashoka India Equity Investment Trust plc is set to issue 807,246 new ordinary shares to Acorn Asset Management Ltd as a performance fee, following a remarkable 75.8% return over the past three ...

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The investment trust – like any other listed company – raises money by issuing shares. When a new investor wants to come on board, he or she has to buy the existing shares from another holder ...

If you are issued new shares as part of a share offer, you will not have an immediate CGT liability. However, this does not wipe the slate clean. “You would carry the cost of your original investment ...

Investment trusts still need to have a significant level of scale to survive, cost disclosure issues have not gone away, and recent years show that discounts can persist for some time. The fact that ...

Investment word of the day: In a rights issue of equity shares, shareholders can buy additional shares at a discounted price. These rights must be exercised within a set timeframe. This corporate ...

And there is little hope of them raising additional capital through new share issues when discounts are the order of the day. More mergers between trusts with similar mandates, as we have started ...

The shares of Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust have delivered an astonishing 67 per cent over 2024 and the shares now trade on a small premium. Most of this has happened since the US election: USA ...

Curling says investment trusts must do more to reduce the 'volatility' in share price discounts. At MESC, he has implemented a three-prong strategy designed to drive down the trust's discount.