Aberdeen Investment Trusts

If you’re keen to capture the potential offered by global investment markets, turn to Aberdeen investment trusts. Managed by teams of experts, each trust is designed to bring together the most compelling opportunities we can find to target the investment growth or income you’re looking for.

Aberdeen is a global investment company that helps clients plan, save and invest for the future. Our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors. 

We manage and administer £548bn of assets (as at 31 March 2026), with a strategy focused on delivering client-led growth. We are structured around three businesses – Investments, Adviser and interactive investor – each designed to meet the evolving needs of our clients.

Our Investments business is built on the strength of our insight, combining global research, deep investment expertise and local market knowledge.

Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology to UK financial advisers, helping them create value for their businesses and their clients.

interactive investor (ii) is the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform and number one flat fee provider. ii enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.

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Alliance Witan 

Alliance Witan aims to be a long‑term core investment, seeking to grow your capital while delivering a rising dividend. We invest in companies around the world, across many industries, to build a diversified global equity portfolio.

Our investment manager, WTW, selects a range of specialist stock pickers with distinct approaches. Each focuses on a small number of stocks in which they have strong conviction,  rather than following a benchmark. This blend of focused ideas and diversified styles is intended to enhance long‑term returns while helping to smooth the ups and downs of markets.

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Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors and its predecessors have been managing investment trusts since 1889, providing investors with access to investment opportunities around the world. Each trust is a company listed and traded on the London Stock Exchange that has its own independent board of directors whose duty it is to look after your interests as an investor.

Established in 1889, The Merchants Trust PLC aims to provide its investors with an efficient, competitive and cost-effective way to achieve an above average level of income and income growth together with long term capital growth through a policy of investing mainly in higher yielding large UK companies.

The Brunner Investment Trust PLC aims to provide growth in capital and dividends over the long term by seeking out the world’s most exciting growth opportunities. We believe that it’s the quality of the company that matters, not its location – so through Brunner, investors can access a spread of high-quality growth companies operating in different sectors and countries in a single portfolio.

Allianz Technology Trust invests in a diversified, but focused portfolio of companies that use technology in an innovative way to gain a competitive advantage. Particular emphasis is placed on companies that are addressing major growth trends with innovation that replaces existing technology or radically changes products and services and the way in which they are supplied to customers.

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Baillie Gifford Investment Management 

Baillie Gifford’s sole business is investment management. Since the company was founded in 1908 it has been a partnership. Today it is owned by 59 partners all of whom work in the business.

We currently manage or advise some £179bn (as at 31 March 2026) on behalf of clients worldwide. 

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BlackRock Investment Management 

For over 30 years, BlackRock has helped investors explore the full breadth of global investment opportunities through investment trusts. Here at BlackRock, our trusted experts strategically select a mix of companies for each of our nine Investment Trusts.

Our range of trusts include companies from around the world, giving investors the ease and flexibility to invest in assets that trade less easily and frequently, with exposure to different global markets. From mining and energy transition to a focus on smaller companies, investors are able to invest in vibrant, dynamic areas such as gaming and software as well as mid-cap “disruptors” across both emerging market and developed countries.

Each of our trusts are designed to suit investors’ needs with the option of income, capital growth, or a combination of both, with a long-term view. Investing in BlackRock’s range of investment trusts is simple: this can be done via a stockbroker, online platform or through an ISA or Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP). 

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Columbia Threadneedle Investments 

Columbia Threadneedle Investments is one of the leading investment trust managers, tracing its heritage back to 1868 when F&C Investment Trust, the world’s oldest collective investment scheme, was launched.

Today, Columbia Threadneedle manages eight Investment Trusts with over £10bn in assets, providing investors with a range of investment opportunities across equities, property and private equity. Each trust is tailored to offer investors different aims and objectives with the option of capital growth, income or a combination of both, offered through portfolios with specific regional focuses or global remits. Investors can invest directly into Columbia Threadneedle’s suite of investment trusts via its own Savings Plan or through a third-party provider.

Columbia Threadneedle’s investment trust business is part of its global asset management business, which is entrusted with $706bn on behalf of individual, institutional and corporate clients around the world.

The business employs more than 2,200 people, including over 550 investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia. As well as investment trusts, Columbia Threadneedle offers clients a wide range of strategies across equities, fixed income and alternatives, as well as specialist responsible investment capabilities and a comprehensive suite of solutions.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments is the global asset management group of Ameriprise Financial, a leading US-based financial services provider. As part of Ameriprise, it is supported by a large and well-capitalised diversified financial services firm.

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Daily Mail 

Renowned for its agenda-setting exclusives, breaking news, incisive commentary, and in-depth investigations, Daily Mail delivers a unique editorial blend spanning showbiz, royals, lifestyle, health, sport, money and much more. 
Its extensive reach, influence, and reader loyalty make it a premium destination for more than 300,000 digital subscribers across the UK, US, Australia, and beyond.  
Daily Mail also maintains a powerful presence across social media, engaging more than 150 million followers and delivering more than 6 billion video views each month across platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.

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Greencoat UK Wind 

Greencoat UKW is the original and largest listed renewable infrastructure fund. UK Wind is exclusively focused on wind generation assets in the UK and has a portfolio of 49 assets constituting 2GW of capacity, which is enough to power over 2m UK homes. The Company’s aim is to provide investors with an annual dividend that increases in line with CPI while preserving capital value on a real basis through the reinvestment of excess cashflow. By providing investors with the opportunity to participate directly in the ownership of UK wind farms, we increase the resources and capital dedicated to the country's renewable energy transition.

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Fidelity International

Fidelity International provides world-class investment solutions and retirement expertise to institutions, individuals, and their advisers – to help our clients build better futures for themselves and generations to come.   As a private company we think generationally and invest for the long term. Helping clients to save for retirement and other long-term investing objectives has been at the core of our business for over 50 years. 

We are responsible for total client assets of £529.5 billion from over 2. 9 million clients across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and South America.

Our UK Investment Trust Business

Fidelity has over 30 years’ experience managing investment companies and manages over £6 billion in assets across five investment trusts. These are all focused on equity growth strategies. 

As a major platform distributor, Fidelity is able to offer its own investment trusts and those managed by third parties to professional investors and retail investors alike through a range of different product wrappers. Fidelity also promotes its range of trusts directly to institutions and wealth managers through its highly experienced in-house sales teams. 

We offer our own investment solutions and access to those of others and deliver services relating to investing; for individual investors and their advisers we provide guidance to help them invest in a simple and cost-effective way. 

For institutions including pension funds, banks and insurance companies we offer tailored investment solutions and full-service asset management outsourcing. And for employers we provide workplace pension administration services on top, or independently, of investment management. 

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J.P. Morgan Asset Management 

J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with assets under management of USD 4.1 trillion as of September, 2025, is a global leader in investment management. J.P. Morgan Asset Management's clients include institutions, retail investors and high net worth individuals in every major market throughout the world. J.P. Morgan Asset Management offers global investment management in equities, fixed income, real estate, hedge funds, private equity and liquidity.

With more than 150 years of investment experience, J.P. Morgan Asset Management is one of the UK’s leading investment trust providers. The company combines global investment resources with local expertise to offer more than 15 investment trusts—each designed to help investors build stronger portfolios. Thanks to its worldwide network of experienced investment professionals, J.P. Morgan Asset Management has the scale and expertise to invest successfully across all major asset classes and regions, and through multiple market cycles. Investment trusts are a well-established part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s comprehensive range of investment solutions, with some of its key trusts offering a track record stretching back more than a century—a testament to the company’s long-term view and ongoing commitment to its clients.

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Liontrust 

Liontrust is a multi-strategy active manager offering equities, fixed income, sustainable and multi-asset. The asset manager has been built on the power of rigorous and repeatable investment processes since being founded in 1994. Liontrust is proud to manage the Edinburgh Investment Trust, River UK Micro Cap and India Capital Growth Fund.

Edinburgh Investment Trust, which was established in 1889, aims to exceed the total return of the FTSE All-Share Index and grow its dividend faster than UK inflation. The Portfolio Managers construct a high-conviction portfolio of 40 to 50 holdings based on fundamental company research. The flexible investment process delivers a portfolio of growth and value listed companies as well as those able to recover through management change, business transformation and an improving business environment. 

India Capital Growth Fund (IGC) aims to unlock long-term capital appreciation in India’s dynamic mid and small-cap companies. With our experienced investment team based in Mumbai, we leverage on-the-ground insights and a bottom-up stock-picking approach to construct a high-conviction portfolio.

River UK Micro Cap (RMMC) invests in a diversified portfolio of UK micro cap companies, utilising the closed end structure to invest in less liquid stocks, with a market cap of less than £100million. The Company has a unique redemption facility that returns capital to shareholders when the fund exceeds its optimal size.

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Schroders plc

Schroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions, with £823.7 billion (€943.4 billion; $1107.9 billion) of assets under management at 31 December 2025. As a UK listed FTSE100 company, Schroders has a market capitalisation of circa £6.5 billion and operates across 38 locations. Established in 1804, Schroders remains true to its roots as a family-founded business. The Principal Shareholder Group continues to be a significant shareholder, holding approximately 44% of the issued share capital.

Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies. The company offers innovative products and solutions through four core business divisions: Public Markets, Solutions, Wealth Management, and Schroders Capital, which focuses on private markets, including private equity, renewable infrastructure investing, private debt & credit alternatives, and real estate.

Schroders aims to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. This means directing capital towards resilient businesses with sustainable business models, consistently with the investment goals of its clients. Schroders serves a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.

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Caledonia Investments 

Caledonia is a FTSE 250 self-managed investment trust company with a long track record of delivering returns and progressive annual dividend payments to shareholders. 

We invest for the long-term across public and private markets through three complementary pools: Public Companies, Private Capital and Funds. Each pool has a strategic allocation of capital, investment strategy and target return. 

Our balanced, global portfolio is focused on well managed businesses in attractive markets with strong fundamentals, which are aligned with Caledonia. This is designed to generate long-term compounding real returns that outperform inflation by 3% to 6% over the medium to long-term and the FTSE All-Share index over 10 years.

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Janus Henderson Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson manages eight investment trusts, supporting investors seeking growth, income, or both, and draws on the resources of a global asset manager. This includes over 350 investment professionals worldwide and research capabilities built on years of active investing experience, overseeing £366.7bn of assets under management (as at 31 December 2025).

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Invesco 

Invesco is a leading independent global investment management firm, where we use our integrity, passion and expertise to solve the needs of our clients, helping them reach their goals. 

We manage £1.7 trillion of assets, including  £1.88 billion of assets in our Investment Trust range (data as at 31 March 2026) giving our clients the confidence of working with a partner with size, scale and stability. 

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Law Debenture Investment Trust

At Law Debenture we are focused on providing peace of mind for shareholders and our wider communities, and we have been since 1889. We are a unique combination of an award-winning UK Income Investment Trust underpinned by a leading Independent Professional Services (IPS) business. 

Our objective is to achieve long-term capital growth in real terms and steadily increasing income. The aim is to achieve a higher rate of total return than the FTSE Actuaries All-Share Index Total Return through investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks.

We have grown or maintained our dividend for each of the last 47 years through our value driven, diversified portfolio managed by James Henderson and Laura Foll of Janus Henderson Investors.

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Polar Capital

Polar Capital is a specialist, investment-led active fund manager with a clear purpose: to be the specialist active manager of choice for investors seeking expertise, conviction and long-term results.

We focus on areas where we have real experience and a proven edge, offering strategies that aim to deliver strong, diversified growth.

Our success comes from the things that define us – deep investment knowledge, enduring client relationships and a culture built on teamwork and integrity. We manage our fund capacity carefully to protect performance and keep our focus where it matters most: delivering for our investors.

Since launching in 2001, we have grown steadily and now have 13 independent investment teams managing specialist, active portfolios with combined assets under management of £30.6bn (at 31/03/2026).

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Rossie House Investment Management

Founded as a partnership in 1993, Rossie House specialise in selecting investment trusts to manage portfolios for individuals and their families. We are majority owned by existing and former staff with offices located in Edinburgh and London.

The firm invests, on a discretionary basis, around £480m on behalf of its clients.

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Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited

Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited (VEIL) is a FTSE 250 investment company offering access to the Vietnamese equity market. Established in 1995, VEIL aims to provide investors with medium to long term capital appreciation by investing in companies the portfolio management team identifies as displaying attractive growth and value metrics, good corporate governance, and that align with Vietnam’s underlying economic growth drivers.

VEIL is managed by Dragon Capital, which was established in 1994 and is the largest foreign investor in the Vietnamese stock market. Dragon Capital has a dedicated team of 150 people in Vietnam, rigorous investment process, and strong commitment to sustainability.
 

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