What we do
We offer investors a library of high quality, up-to-date investment strategy articles and fund analysis all written in-house by experienced analysts.
Our content falls into four categories:
- Investment strategy articles assess opportunities and developments which could impact or should be considered by investment trust investors, positive or negative
- Fund analysis focuses on individual trusts, examining them in detail to create a snapshot picture that investors can use to aid their investment decisions
- News and announcements articles focus on news events like annual and interim results, as well as coverage of our regular live events and trading updates about trusts where something interesting is going on
- Sponsored content appears where an asset management group or investment trust has paid to place a piece of content into the site. This will be clearly marked with the sponsor's logo and a byline attributing the content to the sponsor.
Our focus is on quality, not quantity, so we tend to publish around four or five articles in a given week. For this reason we recommend that you join our mailing list, and we'll send you an email once a week alerting you to what’s new on the site. We won’t sell your details, and we won’t spam you with useless updates.
How we are funded, and how that relates to MIFID II
Kepler Trust Intelligence provides non-substantive material and analysis. Under MiFID II these constitute a minor non-monetary benefit and are provided free of charge.
Kepler Trust Intelligence is freely to any person (professional or private individual) who wants to access it. We clearly disclose all of our relationships, but our research is either paid for directly by specific trusts and their boards, or more generally by the larger asset management groups who pay to have adverts and advertorial. As a result, all of our research should be considered “non-independent” and readers should consider it as marketing.
All of our clients are keen to keep their trusts “on radar” with wealth managers. There is generally less “centralised” coverage of investment trusts as wealth managers get bigger and bigger, and at the same time there is an increasing burden on wealth managers to prove they are keeping “on top” of trusts they hold. We believe our website and research serves as a useful purpose in this regard.
As we mention above, all of this content is freely available to anyone. We run two versions of the site – one for discretionary fund managers one for other types of investor. The professional site requires readers to volunteer the name of the company they work for – so that from a compliance perspective we can be satisfied that all readers really are a professional.
Our aim
At Kepler Partners we are focused on the needs of the private client fund management community, and we understand that investment trusts are only one of the options available to readers of our research. For this reason, wherever possible we seek to show investment trusts on a level playing field with unit trusts and OEICs, especially in performance terms.
We believe investment trusts, as more and more of them move to capitalise on their structural advantages - gearing, the ability to smooth dividends, and the ability to manage their own liquidity, among them - are on the front foot, and we hope that you find our research as interesting and exciting to read as we have found it to write.
Welcome to Kepler Trust Intelligence.
Pascal Dowling
Kepler Partners
Our team
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