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The Apollo programme cost the United States the equivalent of $257bn in today’s money and, over thirteen years, employed more than 400,000 people as part of America’s monumental effort to cross 238,855 miles of empty space and allow one man to take a small but era-defining step for all mankind.
The team behind Kepler Trust Intelligence has also been busy these last few months, developing a number of new features which we hope you will agree are a great leap forward for the site. True, the implications for mankind may not be quite as epochal, but they cost nearly as much and before you downplay the magnitude of the achievement, you try finding an emerging markets fund with no private equity exposure that offers an income paid from capital using sixty-year old analogue technology, it’s a fool’s errand my friend.
With that truly flimsy sop to the picture which we really wanted to use for this article led out back and quietly shot, it is with some relief that we can move on and introduce the new features to the site which we hope you will find useful.
Fund finder
This tool is designed to help you find new ideas for your portfolio based on the outcomes you are looking for. It is designed particularly for those who are not sure where to look, but know what they want a trust to do for them.
You can choose income or growth as a primary investment goal, for example, and refine your search to search for funds with particular characteristics within those parameters – like income funds which pursue dividend growth, or have not cut their dividend in years, or growth funds which ignore private assets, or only focus on mid-caps, or even growth funds that also pay an income.
Watchlist improvements
Regular users will know that it is possible to ‘follow’ any trust we have covered by clicking the ‘follow’ button on the relevant research. We have added a number of new features to the watchlist to make it even more useful including a tag on any thematic research to alert you to the fact that trusts which you are following are mentioned. You will also find a new section on the Kepler Trust Intelligence homepage dedicated solely to research connected to the trusts that you are following and you can now also follow sectors, regions and managers, so you’ll get any new research we publish connected to any of those themes.
The watchlist button at top right is now mouse-responsive and will allow you to see all the trusts you’re following, and you can also view related research by clicking the ‘related content’ button in that dropdown
Funds hub
Those with the sharpest eyes may notice a subtle difference to the way in which our investment trust research is presented this week. Previously, the fund summary and Kepler View were visible alongside all of the other tabs, and any related research – like our coverage of the trust’s results, interviews with managers, or events for example – was stuck at the bottom of the page in ‘related news’. The new ‘funds hub’ allow you to see the summary and Kepler View as before, but alongside any other topical content related directly to that trust, including thematic research, results analysis, forthcoming events hosted by Kepler and any other events including AGMs. If you want to dig deeper into the fund research all the tabs are still visible on the individual fund research page as before, behind the ‘read more’ button.
Events
Last but not least, Kepler Trust Intelligence has joined forces with the Association of Investment Companies to create a forward-looking events planner which allows you to see, and register for, investment trust events including AGMs, presentations and more. All of Kepler’s own events are visible in the calendar, and – if you are a fully registered user – you can still watch recordings of our regular investor events via this portal.
