Nick Train’s Finsbury fund slides further as AI triggers jitters Markets Nick Train’s Finsbury Growth and Income Trust (FGIT) has endured another torrid few days after being caught up in the sell-off in data and software stocks. The trust is heavily exposed to London’s leading listed software companies, all of which have faced heavy pressure since the launch of Anthropic’s legal productivity tool on Monday. At [...]
Star stockpicker Nick Train buys more shares in his Finsbury Growth trust Investing Star fund manager Nick Train has ploughed over £200,000 into his struggling Finsbury Growth and Income Trust, in a further show of support for the 100-year-old trust’s investment strategy just weeks before a crunch continuation vote to mark its centenary. Train, who has managed the £1.3bn trust’s portfolio since 2000, bought 25,000 shares in the [...]
Nick Train: ‘I’m running out of ways to say sorry’ for poor performance Investing Star fund manager Nick Train has apologised again for the poor performance of his £1.4bn Finsbury Growth & Income trust. Over the last five years, the trust’s share price has grown only 10.9 per cent, compared to its benchmark’s growth of 26.5 per cent, according to its most recent factsheet. Tracking the FTSE All-Share index, [...]
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