Investment trusts

With investment, your capital is at risk.

If you’re keen to include investment trusts in your portfolio or want to learn more about them, we can help you. Bestinvest offers a wide range of investment trusts together with plenty of information and insights to help you make informed investment decisions.

You can add investment trusts to an ISA, Junior ISA, SIPP or Investment Account.

Using our investment search tool, it’s simple to:

• Filter search results to home in on investment trusts
• See headline numbers and detailed information on individual funds
• Spot which investment trusts are performing well
• Read up on Bestinvest’s favourite choices
• Buy investment trusts

What is an investment trust?

An investment trust is a type of fund that is structured as a company and listed on the stock market alongside household names like Tesco or BP.

You and other investors can buy shares in the investment trust creating a pooled pot of money. With that money, the trust’s management team use their expertise to invest in companies and assets that they believe are going to grow in value and are capable of making you a profit. Unlike open-ended funds such as unit trusts, investment trusts have a fixed pool of shares so, when you buy and sell, you are trading with other investors rather than the management company.

Trusts come in various shapes and sizes focusing on different sectors and regions such as bonds, Emerging Market companies or real estate.