Introducing our investment trust range

We’ve brought together a selection of investment trusts that give you the opportunity to tap into Aberdeen’s specialist expertise across a wide range of different markets and investment sectors – both close to home and further afield.

Core and specialist choices

Our core UK funds, Murray Income Trust and Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust, and our global fund, Murray International Trust, are broadly invested and therefore aim to have an average risk profile. The other trusts in our range are more specialist in their investment focus and so are higher risk. They are therefore ideally used as part of a larger, balanced portfolio. Please remember that investing overseas can be affected by changes in exchange rates and that investments in young, emerging markets and smaller companies can be volatile.

Growth or income?

Investment trusts can generate returns in two ways. They can potentially grow your capital if the share price rises and they can generate income by paying out a slice of their profits as a dividend. As an investor, you need to decide where your focus lies – growing your capital or receiving an income from your investment. You can then decide which of our investment trust range will best match your needs. You can find details of which trusts invest for growth, income or both on the other pages within this website.

Focus on dividends

All of our investment trusts aim to grow their share price and most aim to pay a dividend. If income is your key concern then Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust or Murray Income Trust may be of particular interest. If you don’t need income immediately, dividends can be reinvested to buy more shares in the trust.

As stock market investments, investment trusts offer the potential to grow your capital and deliver an income that rises over time. That means they can be a good guard against inflation. But please appreciate that neither share price growth nor dividends are guaranteed.

Understanding investment risk

Whichever investment trust you are interested in, please ensure that it is suitable for your appetite and tolerance for risk. Higher risk investments may compensate for their higher volatility and uncertainty by offering potentially higher returns than lower risk investments. But this is not guaranteed.

Investment trusts offer me a more diversified exposure to equities than owning an individual share

Find out more about the trusts you can invest in through an Aberdeen ISA:

- UK Trusts

- UK High Income Trusts

Balancing risk and reward

As pooled investments, investment trusts generally offer a more diversified exposure to equities than owning an individual share. However, unlike a bank account or building society savings account, your capital is at risk, which is why most investors invest for the medium or long term, where the volatility of returns can but may not reduce over time.

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