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Ruffer Investment Company 12 July 2016
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11 Dec 2024
Are commodities hot or not?
We ask what AI and green energy mean for investments in commodities…
09 Dec 2024
Monthly roundup: updates from the property sector, our income event and digital infra news
Jo, David and Ryan discuss the latest news, reviews and interviews in the investment trust world...
27 Nov 2024
Market matters with Jasmine Yeo, manager of Ruffer
We discuss big picture market insights with leading investment experts...
29 Oct 2024
Fund Analysis
RICA’s strong performance in the summer crash could bode well…
09 Oct 2024
Going, going, gold!
We ask if gold can continue to rise from all-time highs…
12 Jun 2024
How do you like them apples?
We do our best to categorise the trusts in the Flexible sector, many of which share little common ground...
06 Mar 2024
Fund Analysis
RICA’s tough 2023 followed a stellar 2022…
01 Feb 2024
Bring some yin-yang into your portfolio in 2024
Inherent contradictions within portfolios can give them stability in a polarised world...
01 Nov 2023
Back to basics
Higher rates mean re-visiting portfolio construction...
14 Sep 2023
Risk on, risk off
Capital preservation trusts are maintaining historically low equity levels, despite the rally seen so far in 2023…
19 Jul 2023
Simply the Best
Investing in high quality companies was a successful strategy for many years, but has its time passed?
13 Jun 2023
Fund Analysis
RICA is available on a small discount for the first time in years…
15 Dec 2022
Beyond the Rubicon
Our first live event since March 2020 saw three fund managers describing their different perspectives on a vastly-changed investment landscape…
07 Dec 2022
Live sessions today - Live from London
Forgot to register for our Live from London event? Here are the details of today’s line-up of investment companies. Join us with an easy-access link to the presentations...
19 Oct 2022
Gimme shelter
Our analysts examine safe havens and defensive strategies as we endure the market's 19th Nervous Breakdown...
12 Oct 2022
The Buck stops where?
The US dollar has surged in 2022, but many are questioning whether this can be sustained...
15 Sep 2022
Fund Analysis
RICA is positioned to protect against inflation or a new leg down in equity markets…
13 Jul 2022
Ready player one
We wonder where, if anywhere, should investors look for returns after a tumultuous first half of the year…
06 Jul 2022
A game of two halves
In the second article of our series on the AIC Flexible Investment sector we see how performance has stacked up during two years when markets were poles apart...
22 Jun 2022
Spider's web
We outline our new quantitative system for mapping the crucial performance characteristics of investment trusts…
11 May 2022
Catch a tiger by the tail
As inflation bites harder than it has for decades, we consider the best ways for investors to hang on to their capital...
26 Jan 2022
Fight or flight...
Two of our analysts debate the impact that war in Ukraine could have on investors' portfolios...
30 Dec 2021
Great expectations
As the last of the mince pies wilts in the fridge, topped with a generous helping of stilton, the Kepler Trust Intelligence team stick a finger in the air and point toward their top picks for the year ahead…
22 Dec 2021
No humbug
Our analysts look back at a year of predictions, theories and ideas, and highlight those they think could matter most…
20 Dec 2021
Fund Analysis
RICA’s strong performance during the pandemic and in the market recovery has highlighted its credentials as an all-weather strategy…
01 Sep 2021
Winter is coming
Summer was a welcome opportunity for exhausted investors to turn their backs on the legion threats they face, but they haven't gone away and the days grow short - we examine four in detail...
25 Aug 2021
Is the UK’s debt a ticking time bomb?
Our analyst argues Rishi is right to worry about government debt and borrowing…
21 Jul 2021
Every which way but loose
We break down the AIC Flexible sector into more useful segments…
30 Jun 2021
Inflation – a real threat or hot air?
Two of our analysts ask whether recent high inflation numbers indicate something long-lasting and troubling is happening…
13 May 2021
Fund Analysis
RICA is an all-weather proposition, aiming to deliver over a range of market and economic outcomes…
05 May 2021
Vive la revolution
For thirty years quality has had a structural tailwind; but revolt is in the air and value is on the barricades…
10 Mar 2021
Spring Conference '21
Audio and presentations from 21 of the UK’s leading investment trust managers…
04 Mar 2021
Slides and Audio: Ruffer Investment Company
Download the presentation and listen to the audio from our 'Ideas for your ISA' Spring Conference on 04 March...
06 Jan 2021
This time next year Rodney...
We review the performance of the team’s ‘top picks’ for 2020 – including some proper plonkers – and place our bets for the year ahead…
02 Dec 2020
Fund Analysis
RICA is an all-weather proposition, aiming to deliver over range of market and economic outcomes...
15 Jul 2020
Why stagflation is likely and how to protect your portfolio from it
Our analysis suggests a combination of cost-push inflation and economic hardship could lead to a short, but unpleasant, period of stagflation...
01 Jul 2020
Oh the humanity...
We consider two strategies to cope with markets which, boosted by massive government support, may be witnessing the start of a ‘melt-up’ which may be followed swiftly by a melt-down...
05 Jun 2020
Deep impact
Audio and presentations from our conference this week, where fifteen of the world's best fund managers described a profoundly altered investment landscape...
29 Apr 2020
On solid ground
Our analysis of discounts highlights trusts which are likely to offer significantly less discount downside from the current level…
16 Apr 2020
Fund Analysis
RICA uses a range of asset classes to generate absolute returns for investors with an approach emphasising loss-aversion...
08 Apr 2020
Children of the Revolution
The outperformance of technology hints at an exciting possible future for the market when the virus is beaten…
30 Jan 2020
Is it time to run away?
With a sense of complacency in the air, our analysts debate the best ways to shore up your portfolio's defenses...
30 Oct 2019
All that glitters? The case for and against gold
Two of our analysts go head-to-head, debating whether gold is the ultimate safe haven asset...
16 Oct 2019
Life on Mars: could inflation take us back to the '70s?
We discuss two potential catalysts for inflation - and the assets that could offer a hedge against it...
16 Oct 2019
Fund Analysis
RICA uses a range of asset classes to generate absolute returns for investors with an approach emphasising loss-aversion...
25 Sep 2019
Master of all trades: the best multi-asset trusts on the market
Investment trusts are particularly suited to multi-asset strategies. Our research identifies the leaders in this increasingly popular field...
16 Jan 2019
There may be trouble ahead
We analyse why multi-asset macro funds have struggled and attempt to identify some possible closed-ended alternatives...
16 Jan 2019
Fund Analysis
This trust is well positioned to perform well if markets bounce, or the sell-off intensifies...
19 Sep 2018
Fund Analysis
A multi-asset fund which aims to protect and grow capital and has delivered annualised returns of 7.3% since launch, with very limted drawdown during tough periods...
28 Feb 2018
Gimme shelter
As the bear market for bonds and corresponding volatility in equities escalates we examine trusts that offer excellent capital protection..
27 Feb 2018
Fund Analysis
A diversified multi-asset trust with a clear focus on absolute returns which has seen it perform well in previous crises...
12 Jul 2016
Fund Analysis
12 Jul 2016
Riders on the storm
Multi-asset investment trusts for an environment where a global, active, currency-aware approach is essential...
12 Jul 2016
Anarchy in the UK
We collate the reactions of the City's leading investment companies analysts in the wake of the EU referendum...
About the Author
Pascal Dowling
Pascal is a partner at Kepler Partners LLP and launched Kepler Trust Intelligence when he joined Kepler in 2015. Prior to this he managed FE Trustnet, one of the UK's largest investment research websites, for ten years. In a former life Pascal was a financial journalist and he has written extensively about investment trusts and other investments for the trade and national press.