Investment trusts provide an excellent ‘off the shelf’ mechanism for ordinary people to achieve diversification. By pooling together lots of small pots of money, they create a large one which provides economies of scale – particularly where trading costs are concerned – and allows investors to benefit from a broadly diversified portfolio.
Majedie Investment Trust, first incorporated in 1910, became an investment trust in 1985 and is still a significant holding for the family which founded it, is a well-established example. It offers a very broadly diversified portfolio of holdings, via a ‘fund of funds’ structure which means that the trust itself holds six underlying funds, and they in turn are invested in hundreds of underlying holdings...
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