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Invesco Asia sees China value after putting its recovery on track

Invesco Asia is comfortably ahead of its benchmark index half-way through a performance review that may determine the investment trust's future.

Laura Foll: Can white knights end UK smaller companies’ dark days?

Managements of smaller companies are tired of the disheartening, defeatist narrative foisted on them by an unsupportive UK stock market.

James Carthew: The unfit trusts at risk from an ‘arb’ attack

The arbitrageurs who used to build up stakes in poorly-performing investment trusts haven’t gone away. With discounts plaguing the sector, some boards need to wake up.

HICL: Inflation gains will ‘materially offset’ hit from higher rates

Concerns about borrowing levels and flat dividend guidance have weighed on HICL Infrastructure shares but in an update the income fund insisted its defensive portfolio was doing well.

ThomasLloyd calls for new board at suspended renewables trust

ThomasLloyd Group, fund manager of the suspended ThomasLloyd Energy Impact Trust, slams the board for destroying shareholder value and proposes replacing it.

Abrdn’s Bruce Stout to retire next June

The notoriously bearish equity income fund manager will hand over the reins of Murray International investment trust to co-managers Martin Connaghan and Samantha Fitzpatrick.

Now Atlantis Japan is merging with Nippon Active Value

Three months after Abrdn Japan announced it would merge with top-performing activist smaller companies fund, Atlantis Japan Growth says it wants to roll over its assets too.

Atlantis Japan is merging with Nippon Active Value

Three months after Abrdn Japan announced it would merge with top-performing activist smaller companies fund, Atlantis Japan Growth says it wants to roll over its assets too.

GCP Infra pursues three-way merger with GABI and RMII

GCP Infrastructure plans to combine with stablemate GCP Asset Backed Income to create a £900m debt fund that could also absorb RM Infrastructure Income.

Riverstone Credit turns fully green but has a discount problem

High-yielding Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income completes its transition to becoming a clean energy lender but may only have nine months of active service left.

Ruffer’s recovery hopes: Oil, the yen, put options and… Alibaba

The managers of the under-pressure wealth preservation fund say ‘visible cracks’ in the economy are showing.

JPMorgan American continues to smash the US index

Half-year results show that the £1.5bn investment trust beat the US stock market rally this year by more than four percentage points.