Investment trusts are companies whose main purpose is to buy and sell shares in other companies. You become a shareholder of the invesment trust company you choose to invest in. The experts in the investment trust company purchase, monitor and sell shares for you.
By investing in an investment trusts you spread the risk, your investment is combined with other investors' money, buying shares in many other companies. This enables those who invest small sums of money access to a wide range of shares and so reduces the risk as your money is not invested in the one place.
Also investors in investment trusts have the advantage of having their money looked after by an expert fund manager.
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Many investment trusts specialise their investments in one geographical area or in particular areas of the market such as insurance or technology.
Investment trusts are refered to as being closed ended which means they have a fixed number of shares in the fund. This is where investment trusts differ from unit trusts and OEICs where the number of shares varies depending on the supply and demand.
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